Thanks for the invite Ross! Unless there's any other takers, I will look into this next week.
A+ Dave On 8 October 2013 00:38, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a resource called VM Depot [1] which provides a community managed > repository of freely redistributable (e.g. Linux) virtual machine images for > deployment to Windows Azure. Many projects are finding this to be a valuable > way of reaching potential users and thus developers. I'd like to help this > community get an image of CouchDB on VM Depot. > > > > It costs nothing to publish and store images on VM Depot. To build and test > images (or to deploy a VM from the image) you do need an Azure subscription. > Fortunately there are free subscriptions for users, better yet committers to > ASF projects get free MSDN subscriptions which include enough Azure time. > > > > I'd like to offer my help in understanding what it means to create an image > on VM Depot. If there is anyone in the community that would like to build the > images I'd be very happy to provide whatever guidance and support is needed. > Once the images are up there I'd also like to work with the community to > ensure the message gets out there - which is where I should identify my > affiliation. I work for MS Open Technologies, Inc. and am responsible for VM > Depot. As such I can't build your images for you (that just wouldn't scale) > but I can help you make the most of any images that are up there. > > > > If you have questions fire away, if you want to have a crack at creating the > first image let me know and I'll start feeding you the instructions, it's > really easy. Essentially: > > > * Create a Linux VM (either using a node.js command line or the Azure > web portal) > * Install tour software and any dependencies > * [optional] install demo's, tutorials, source and anything else you > want to include on the image > * Deprovision the VM (a single command via SSH) > * Publish to VM Depot > > > > The whole process takes about 20 minutes plus any project installation time > (there are a couple of periods of waiting for images to copy etc. but this is > unattended so doesn't eat into your time). > > > > Ross > > > > [1] http://vmdepot.msopentech.com >
