On 16 May 2012 18:26, Shantanu Pavgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 16, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Daniel Molina wrote: > > Hi Owen, > > On 14 May 2012 13:03, Owen Synge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > What is a market place? Why does Open Nebular need one? Why should it be > > cloud specific? > > > As I under stand it a "Market place" is following Apples success a poor copy > > of debian's "apt repository" has been re branded and emasculated. Unlike > > "apt", and its rpm clone "yum" the feature to deploy a repository on any old > > web server have been removed in a market place. > > > Rather than having a layered architecture with a set of user interfaces, > > apt, aptitude, kpackage and synaptic around "apt", market places typically > > suffer from just one or some times two interfaces. > > > One of the sad things about computer concepts is that products promoting > > lock in get seen my marketeers as a good idea. > > > So why does Open Nebular need a market place, and not adopt a simpler "apt" > > approach? > > > I am bias, here is my "apt" replacement for a market place that will work > > with open nebular and stratuslab, as I don’t believe in lock in. > > > https://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/ > > > Its like "apt" and "yum" and only requires a web server to host the images > > and metadata, unlike what I have seen of "market place" servers. > > > Community users have requested several times for pre-configured images > ready to run in OpenNebula environments, so we decided to provide > these images in the following link [1]. > > Since this solution is a bit limited, we decided to develop a service > where we can include metadata of these images and provide OpenNebula > users the possibility of sharing pointers of their own images. Just to > clarify, this service will not host the images but pointers to them > and metadata. > > Currently we are evaluating different technologies for this service > and we will take into account the solution you provide [2]. Thanks for > the feedback > > Cheers > > [1] http://www.opennebula.org/software:appliances > [2] https://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/ > > > Regards > > > Owen Synge > > > > > On 05/14/2012 12:17 PM, Daniel Molina wrote: > > > Hi Carlo, > > > The OpenNebula Marketplace will provide OpenNebula users the > > possibility of sharing and running Virtual Machine images with > > OpenNebula. Users will be able to upload their images or retrieve > > existing preconfigured images from the community catalog. > > > More information coming in a few weeks > > > Cheers > > > On 11 May 2012 16:22, Carlo Daffara<[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's great! We would love to submit some of the images we use to > > jumpstart installation (mainly CentOS, some Opensuse). Is there any > > idea of how the marketplace > > will work/will be like? > > Carlo Daffara > > CloudWeavers > > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jaime Melis<[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Dear OpenNebula Users, > > > we are preparing a new Maketplace component. Users will be able to use > > it to download Virtual Machine Images that will boot > > directly with OpenNebula. > > > In the meantime we have uploaded a few images available for download > > to give users an idea of what's about to come: > > > http://opennebula.org/software:appliances > > http://appliances.c12g.com > > > Enjoy! > > > Cheers, > > Jaime > > > -- > > Jaime Melis > > Project Engineer > > OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing > > www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > > > > Hi, > > It's great to see ongoing efforts and discussions related to developing an > OpenNebula marketplace for base images. I think this will be an important > component of the eco-system as it will allow users to access and deploy base > images easily. I am not sure of implementation details of the marketplace, > but I thought I would share some of my thoughts and wish-list features. > > Many system administrators and regular users would prefer to know how a > particular base images was created before instantiating it their > environment. It's also important to know the base image profile from > security point of view. So it would be great if marketplace allows and > encourages users to register their installation scripts along with the base > image. This will also help in developing best practices for creating base > images and yield well configured base images eventually. > > We can get started with sharing of installation scripts even without a > marketplace and then create base images in the marketplace once it is > ready. I have posted my notes on how kickstart installation can be used to > create CentOS base images for OpenNebula > - http://knowshantanu.github.com/systems/2012/05/07/Kickstarting-OpenNebula-VM-Images.html . I > have posted notes on kickstart installation method as I am familiar only > with this method, however there are other options available like Cobbler and > Ubuntu/Debian seed files. > > Again, thanks to OpenNebula team for getting started with this new > marketplace component. > > -- > Shantanu >
That is a great idea, we will take it into account. Any feedback is more than welcome, thank you. -- Daniel Molina Project Engineer OpenNebula - The Open Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] | @OpenNebula _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
