2012/11/13 Charles Plessy
<plessy@debian.org>
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request assistance with maintaining the cloud-init package.
The package description is:
System to handle early initialization of a cloud instance. Cloud-init can for
example set a default locale and a host name, generate SSH private host keys,
add SSH keys to a user's .ssh/authorized_keys so they can log in, and set up
ephemeral mount points.
.
Cloud-init's behavior can be configured via user-data, given by the user at
instance launch time.
Cloud-init is a complex system written in Python, and I do not have much
experience in both. I would like cloud-init to be maintained by a team
of skilled developers who are also experienced users.
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2012/11/msg00003.html for a longer
call for help.
The source package is currently hosted by the Python Applications team,
but can be moved if need is.
One remark, the cloud-init package looks really linked to Amazon EC2 setup, it does not set the init for other cloud environments (Rackspace? OpenNebula). Don't you think the package should be named ec2-cloud-init ? Or do we really expect this package to be multiple cloud provider compliant (would need to know in this case which provider we want to target at image generation)?
Even compatible APIs to extract user data (ssh keys..., ) need to connect to a specific end point IP, which will differ between providers (and/or zone). To face this last problem, it means that configuration is needed to create the image (debian installer specific question for cloud?)
Olivier
Cheers,
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Charles
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