** Description changed: - Windows Azure Agent is needed for 12.10. + [Background information]: Microsoft Windows Azure is a cloud Paas + (Infrastructure as a Service) that allows offers a utility compute + experience, similiar to Amazon's EC2. Ubuntu Cloud Images are officially + supported by Canonical and Microsoft as a guest on Windows Azure. + + [Availability]: This is a new package for cloud enablement. As such it + is not currently available in Universe. In order for a package to be + included on the official cloud images, it must be in Main, as Universe + is disallowed by policy. Further, this package needs to be included on + the Ubuntu Server CD Image. + + [Rationale]: This package is required in order to run Ubuntu on Windows + Azure Cloud IaaS. With out this package, it is impossiable to boot + Ubuntu on Windows Azure. The package contains an agent which + communicates with the Windows Azure Cloud fabric, reports the start up + status, provisions the default user, adds security credentials, changes + the host name, etc. + + [Security]: Windows Azure was just released on 07 June 2012 and the + general availability of this source code is new. As a result, there is + no security history. However, this package does not setup an servers or + listen for network connections. It is an agent that handles the + bootstrapping of a machine, including adding users and setting up in- + instance network connections. Any security issues with this package + should be tangential to the security of Windows Azure PaaS. + + /usr/sbin/waagent: this is the agent which handles the initial provisioning. + The agent is Linux agonostic, and runs on RHEL, Fedora, openSUSE, SUSE, + Debian and Ubuntu. The agent handles many of the package maintaner functions + like installing the init script. + + [Quality assurance]: No obvious issues with the MIR requirements + + [UI standard]: Not applicable + + [Dependencies]: All dependencies are already in main. + + [Standards compliance]: No issues identified + + [Maintenance]: The package is relatively simple. In terms of maintance, + the upstream is Microsoft Corp, and the source is freely open on GitHub. + Microsoft and Canonical have an official relationship/partnership + regarding the running of Ubuntu on Windows Azure, and as such, Canonical + and/or Microsoft will maintain this code base as part of the official + Ubuntu Cloud Images. + + [Source Location]: The source is checked into: + https://code.launchpad.net/~utlemming/windowsazure/walinuxagent
** Summary changed: - Package Windows Azure Agent for 12.10 + [MIR] Package Windows Azure Agent for 12.10 ** Branch linked: lp:windowsazure ** Changed in: ubuntu Importance: Medium => High ** Summary changed: - [MIR] Package Windows Azure Agent for 12.10 + [MIR] walinuxagent -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1014864 Title: [MIR] walinuxagent To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1014864/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
