> cloud-init has specific code to handle EC2 and OpenStack, but the images > themselves are quite generic. Actually, ours would be generic too, if it wasn't for the ec2 startup scripts (which cloud-init could handle in the future).
Anders On 3 December 2012 19:01, Clint Byrum <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2012-12-02 05:25:10 -0800: >> On 12/02/2012 07:29 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > Are the EC2 images also usable as is on other Amazon-like cloud >> > infrastructures? If they are not, then I do not see the point of using >> > our own resources for the benefit of a specific cloud provider. >> They are normally useable with Openstack, which is in Wheezy. >> If you want to try Openstack though, it might be more easy to >> do so with our latest release (eg: 2012.2.1) only available in >> our Git on Alioth: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/OpenStackHowto/Folsom >> >> Following this howto, one should be up-and-running with >> Openstack within 30 minutes (plus of course the time it >> would take to install Wheezy on a few servers). >> >> I would also like to highlight that Canonical releases some LTS >> images specifically made to run on EC2 or on Openstack (and >> maybe, with a stronger focus on Openstack). I see no reason >> why Debian wouldn't do it as well. >> > > The Ubuntu cloud images: > > https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ > > Are even more generic than that. They are meant to run on > "virtualization". They make a nice starting point for simply downloading > and booting a server image in KVM for instance. > > cloud-init has specific code to handle EC2 and OpenStack, but the images > themselves are quite generic. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMcOGXE=W5RHsJ+UthSJBzEPzyuxqcvwuALu3EZt-ZyFm1=f...@mail.gmail.com
