On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Rene Moser <m...@renemoser.net> wrote:
> Hi > > I am currently building some tooling (Ansible, hint hint) for automating > the process for providing cloud templates. And it seems to me quite some > work: > > For every Distribution: > - Downloading ISO > - Rebuilding ISO with kickstart/preseed and cloud init > - Make ISO accessible by HTTP > - CloudStack ISO download > - Create a VM with that ISO > - Start VM > - SSH into the VM and do final configration and cleanup > - Stop VM > - Create template from VM > > I was wondering how other cloud providers would handle it. > > We use packer to handle template building, perhaps you could couple Ansible with that? If you don't want to couple with packer, perhaps look at the way it does things. It starts a small http server where you host things like kernel, initramfs, kickstart/preseed, then you boot an ipxe iso which is supplied with user-data telling it where to fetch things. It is actually quite brilliant. Atleast brilliant enough for me to be able to just push some configuration updates to git and have a new template automatically built :-) Considering to submit a talk about it to CCCEU -- Erik
