On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Eric Windisch <e...@cloudscaling.com> wrote: > EC2 is strategically important. I don't believe that building "gold images" > is the right focus for OpenStack.
Indeed. Amazon drives a huge portion of the IaaS market today, and has an enormous impact on non-Amazon IaaS implementations/deployments. If we in OpenStack do not provide for the easy migration between OpenStack and AWS (EC2 in this case), the project will quickly become a non-starter for all the businesses that see Amazon as having defined "cloud standards." Until the market gives up on Amazon, we should probably provide robust compatibility between the two. d > Anyone wanting to use config-drive would need to support it in their images, > that is a no-brainer. It should not be required that images launching in > Nova via the EC2 API support config-drive. The EC2 metadata service must > remain. > > The EC2 API is intended to mimic EC2 behavior and provide compatibility. The > OpenStack implementations should not diverge or break that compatibility. > > -- > Eric Windisch > > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: > > Config drive can support all EC2 functionality, I believe. > > Images would need to be respun for OpenStack with config-drive, unless we > populated the config drive in a way that worked with cloud-init. (Scott?) > > Personally, I'd rather our effort went into producing great images for > OpenStack, than into compatibility with last-generation clouds. Any idea > what the "important" EC2 images are? Are there a handful of images that we > could duplicate and then just forget about EC2? > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@yahoo-inc.com> > wrote: > > Except for the fact that the config drive is non-EC2 right? > > That might blow it out of the water to start, as I know a lot of people want > the EC2 equivalents/compat. > > But maybe if done right it shouldn’t matter (ie cloud-init could instead of > calling out to urls could also call out to “local files” on a config drive). > > I just worry that config drive is openstack api only, afaik. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp