Imagefactory is more than a REST interface to oz. Oz creates a JEOS image. The customization that oz performs is limited to installing additional packages or running commands within a VM started with the JEOS image. Oz does not have knowledge of what needs to be added or how an image needs to be translated for a specific virtualization platform or cloud target. This is what imgfac brings to the party.
I really wish we could get past the notion that imagefactory is just a REST interface to oz. What are we doing wrong on imgfac.org that leads people to see imagefactory this way? Maybe I should be happy about this, because it means we're doing a good job of hiding what is needed to go from base image to provider image for cloud targets like EC2 and vSphere. -steve On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:06:19 +0100 > From: Giulio Fidente <[email protected]> > To: Fedora Cloud SIG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: fedora cloud images (non ec2 providers) > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 02/26/2013 08:40 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:05:45PM +0100, Giulio Fidente wrote: >>> I was wondering if there is any work ongoing to announce those more >>> officially or if any help is wanted to rebuild/maintain some more images >> >> Hi Giulio. I'm glad you found those images helpful. There *is* a plan to >> make more-official images for Fedora 19, and you can see that at >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FirstClassCloudImages. A lot of this >> is internal infrastructure work, but I'm sure we can find some way to fit in >> your skills. > > I like the plan a lot, it looks like the major issue now is the > integration of imgfac/oz with koji > > I happen to have worked with imgfac and know decently its REST interface > but, for the scope of this project, can't we just stick to Oz? > > I don't think imgfac would add much to the process while it will instead > prevent us from passing customized kickstarts to Oz > > this said, I think I could help with koji... who should I ping? > >> You may also be interested in >> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/cloud-kickstarts.git/tree/generic, which is >> the source repository for the kickstart files from which the image is >> generated. Any improvements/suggestions/patches are welcome. > > would it be worth trying some ARM build? > -- > Giulio Fidente > IRC: giulivo _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
