On 3/23/21 11:44 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote:
> Thanks Wido, that would be useful. Maybe we fork one of the recipes to create
> new default template(s) for CloudStack.
>
Yes, that's possible! With a few simple adjustments we can do so.
We could add this to the cloudstack repo in a directory
'default-template' or something where we build a CentOS or Ubuntu image
which works out of the box on CloudStack.
Not really that hard to build that template with all the work we already
did.
Wido
>
> Regards.
>
> ________________________________
> From: li jerry <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 19:07
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: 回复: CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu templates for CloudStack
>
> thank you for your sharing
>
> Is there a CICD solution for windows tempalte?
>
>
> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: Wido den Hollander <[email protected]>
> 发送时间: 2021年3月19日 23:58
> 收件人: [email protected]
> 主题: CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu templates for CloudStack
>
> Hi,
>
> At PCextreme ( https://www.pcextreme.com/ ) we have thousands of Virtual
> Machines running on Apache CloudStack with the KVM hypervisor.
>
> One of the things which is always a challenge is having proper templates
> which you can use to deploy Virtual Machines rapidly.
>
> We use the Packer tool to build templates for VMs on CloudStack. The code for
> building these is available on Github:
> https://github.com/PCextreme/packer-templates/
>
> The resulting QCOW2 files are uploaded to a public S3 bucket:
> https://compute.o.auroraobjects.eu/
>
> For example, the Ubuntu 20.04 template from 18-03-2021 can be found here:
>
> https://compute.o.auroraobjects.eu/templates/ubuntu-20.04_master_240a36d2.qcow2
>
> Gitlab's CI/CD is used to build these templates and successful builds of the
> master branch are pushed to S3.
>
> The templates support:
>
> - Growing the root disk upon first boot
> - CloudStack password server (via cloud-init)
> - cloud-init userdata
>
> The PCextreme IPv6 recursive DNS servers are harcoded into these templates
> which make them not suitable for all deployments, but you can use the code to
> easily build your own templates.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Wido
>
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