Hi libclouders, Following up on Alex's message:
> Subjects discussed (please fill in the gaps if I missed something): > [...] > - Needs around image formats and configuration management. Right now > Rackspace and EC2 are really the only platforms you can get your files > on to to bootstrap the process. I would like to offer my assistance on this. I started writing a tool called Clapp [1], which stands for "cloud appliance". It defines a format for server images which you can actually manage. The idea is to maintain a single "template" image which is small and version controlled, then generate images in any format, for any cloud, as you need them. I've seen this approach implemented on production systems and it works wonderfully. In my experience we typically rely too much on runtime configuration tools like Puppet and Chef, just because the image management experience is so awful. Hopefully we can change that! I would love to discuss, and contribute to, anything related to image management in libcloud. Keep up the good work! [1] You can check out a POC at http://bitbucket.org/dotcloud/clapp Best, Solomon Hykes
