[email protected] wrote: >On 2016-07-27 00:02:19 +0100 (+0100), Steve McIntyre wrote: >[...] >> + Does any cloud platform require contrib or non-free bits for >> cloud-init? Most not, but apparently at least Rackspace needs a >> specific agent which is not free and it's difficult to even get >> hold of a copy. There are ways to do things better here, they're >> just not using those methods. >[...] > >This is debatable. I run hundreds of servers in Rackspace from >custom images without their agent installed. It's "needed" if you >want some cleaner integration with some of their features, but it's >far, far, far from necessary. OpenStack-based environments should >never require non-OpenStack agent or client software for them to be >usable, and in my view (as an OpenStack contributor) Rackspace's >seeming claim is unfortunate in the extreme. > >That aside, the current "nova-agent" source at >https://github.com/rackerlabs/openstack-guest-agents-unix seems to >be Apache-licensed as best I can tell (just not packaged in Debian).
Ok, thanks for the info - other people in the session didn't know/share that... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
