Agree with Mark McKenna's proposal to make it configurable. No strong opinion on what the default value should be, though. Maybe Ubuntu 14.04, for compatibility with blueprints that assume Ubuntu. Any examples of those in the wild?
Guglielmo Nigri Senior Engineer @ Cloudsoft Corporation On 19 January 2017 at 17:12, Mark Mc Kenna <[email protected]> wrote: > + 1 IMO centos is a much better defualt > > BUT I would go one further and make the image chooser configurable so this > behaviour can be changed by users in brooklyn.properties > > *Mark McKenna* > > *Web :: markmckenna.ie <http://markmckenna.ie/>* > > *Work :: [email protected] <[email protected]>* > > *PGP :: A7A9 24DE 638C 681A 8DEA FAD4 2B5D C759 B1EB 76A7 > <https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2B5DC759B1EB76A7>* > > On 19 January 2017 at 16:09, Duncan Godwin <duncan.godwin@cloudsoftcorp. > com> > wrote: > > > Hi Richard > > > > I agree that we could do with information on what our users are using > and a > > message on this mailing list is the first step! :) > > > > So I think one of the main drivers for change should be that 12.04 LTS is > > just about to go out of support. 14.04 LTS is no longer the latest LTS > > Ubuntu version. The new version, 16.04 LTS has major changes (systemd > etc) > > which are likely to break a lot of blueprints anyway. If we are going to > > change default OS choices, now would be a good time to do so. > > > > Many thanks > > > > Duncan > > > > On 19 January 2017 at 15:56, Richard Downer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Duncan, > > > > > > Do we have any data on what our users are using? That should be our > > driver > > > for change :-) > > > > > > I am a bit concerned what effect making this change would have on > > existing > > > blueprints that don't specify an OS requirement. If a user writes such > a > > > blueprint and makes it Ubuntu-dependent, would a default OS change > > suddenly > > > break their blueprint? Arguably the user should be explicit about their > > OS > > > requirements, but it doesn't look good if we change something > fundamental > > > like that. > > > > > > Richard. > > > > > > > > > On 19 January 2017 at 15:17, Duncan Godwin > <duncan.godwin@cloudsoftcorp. > > > com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Should we change the default image to CentOS 7 over Ubuntu 14.04? > > > > > > > > Apache Brooklyn, by default currently favours Ubuntu 14.04 and 12.04 > > LTS > > > > images when no preference is selected. This is because of the code in > > > > BrooklynImageChooser here: > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/blob/ > > > > f4281af2e40a9d12264c566a4b65fa6549238be5/locations/jclouds/ > > > > src/main/java/org/apache/brooklyn/location/jclouds/ > > > > BrooklynImageChooser.java#L138-L149 > > > > > > > > Most of the blueprints in brooklyn-library seem to favour CentOS 7 > and > > I > > > > think most of the Apache Brooklyn users are using and testing CentOS > 7. > > > It > > > > therefore seems to me to make sense to alter BrooklynImageChooser > score > > > to > > > > favour CentOS 7 based images. What does everyone think? > > > > > > > > Many thanks > > > > > > > > Duncan > > > > > > > > > >
