On 07/06/2013 08:32 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > the other blocker to do thinks neatly is the lack of official images with > cloud-init, however at that point, I am still lacking the time to check if > cloud-init is even working at all on Debian.
Charles, I have fixed cloud-initramfs-tools, so that it works as expected (eg: resize the HDD at boot time correctly), and I use cloud-init in my images. It works very well. Using anything else, like the hacked things in the current official AWS images, is IMO, a loss of time. cloud-init is definitively the way to go, as it supports all clouds in a unified way (and if more have to be added, we should work on it). On 07/06/2013 08:32 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > On other Cloud platforms, using Debian-Installer might be even > simpler. Are there specific points that make people avoid using > Debian-Installer ? I see no reason to use d-i if we can use debootstrap directly. d-i is IMO less flexible, and forces you to use preseed if you want to run automatically. I also don't like the fact that you have to actually boot the virtual machine to have the installation happen, when this is really not needed. On 07/06/2013 09:15 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2013-07-06 09:32:08 +0900 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote: > [...] >> 5. Debian-Installer (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/). > [...] > > 6. https://github.com/stackforge/diskimage-builder (Ubuntu-specific > for the moment and geared more toward making server images which can > be used as components *of* an OpenStack environment, but can also be > leveraged to make general-purpose images and would likely only > require minor tweaking to also work for Debian) > > 7. https://github.com/stackforge/novaimagebuilder (requires a > running compute node and is therefore intended to be run in an > existing OpenStack environment--would also require a preseed file > for Debian but would likely not be too different from the Ubuntu > example) > > There are probably more I'm not remembering just this moment... Same problem here. Running any kind of virtualization is absolutely not needed to build a cloud image. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
