Hello Brian > If you are starting from scratch there are two ways to go: > 1.) Start with the Cloud images available here: > https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/ > Spin up a VM in openstack, make your needed modifications, then create an > image of that VM.
not interesting for me since I need to script all the process. > > 2.) Start fresh with the Debian ISO and use hashicorp packer to preseed a > VM with the qemu plugin. This will allow you to script out creation of the > image, allow for post processing of the vm through SSH and then you can > pass the output image through qemu-img to convert it to the image format > you need to upload to Openstack Glance. You speaks about packer, but the initial cloud images are generated with fai. Is there a reason to prefer packer instead of fai for this second customization process. this is realy a naiv question, do not suppose a bad faith from my part. thanks Frederic
