All, and specially Paul and Nux, Any chance you can join this meeting, and see what we need to do on the CentOS front ?
On Apr 1, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 03/27/2015 04:41 AM, Sebastien Goasguen wrote: >>> >On Mar 26, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Rich Bowen<rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >A while back I mentioned to some folks (I think it was this list, but it >>> >may have been a subset) that the CentOS community is working on a Cloud >>> >SIG (Special Interest Group) effort. You can read a little about it >>> >athttp://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud >>> > >>> >The idea is to ensure that cloud infrastructure software, like CloudStack, >>> >OpenStack, Open Nebula, and Eucalyptus, works solidly on CentOS, has all >>> >of the prerequisite packages available, gets CI on the CentOS platform, >>> >and so on. >>> > >>> >At the moment, this is*only* OpenStack, with the other projects >>> >unrepresented. >>> > >>> >If you are interested in adoption of CloudStack on CentOS (and, by side >>> >effect, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux), we'd love to have your participation >>> >in this effort. >>> > >> Hi Rich, thanks for the ping again. >> >> We have been in touch with KB (Nux! and I mostly) and submitted our scripts >> for building a cloudstack centOS templates upstream. It works and was merged >> at some point, but it got pulled back because we stick some scripts in there. >> >> Bottom line is that I feel we need to work further upstream in cloud-init to >> improve cloudstack support there, once that’s done, we can come back to the >> CentOS builds for cloudstack. >> >> fwiw, our install base is probably ~70% centOS and we already have centOS7 >> support. > > In the OpenStack world, we see CentOS as a great way to get the message out > about OpenStack. Wearing my ASF hat, I'd really like to see the same vehicle > be used to get the word out about CloudStack. CentOS goes to a lot of events, > and many of them are ones that CloudStack isn't at. I'd love to see the Cloud > SIG be a way to get the word about CloudStack into audiences that typically > only ever hear about OpenStack. (Yes, I have split loyalties here, and that's > fine.) > > Anyways, a reminder that we will be having this meeting on #centos-devel at > 15:00 UTC *tomorrow*, and it would be awesome to at least have some > representation from the CloudStack community there to ask the right questions > and see what we can do, on the CentOS side, to fix these cloud-init problems > and bring CloudStack some more of the CentOS spotlight. Or even just show up > so that folks can meet you and we can figure out if there's anything we can > do to help one another. > > --Rich > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
