On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Sam Kottler <skottler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/13/2013 12:55 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> The documentation for building an image for Google Compute Engine (GCE): >> >> https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/building-image >> >> Most of this is very similar to our existing cloud images. A few of the >> changes we could integrate across the board. Some will need testing >> (hostname setting?), but I don't see anything exotic. >> >> Debian is carrying a patch for cloud-init provided by Google >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725384, and we could do the >> same instead of integrating google-daemon and google-startup-scripts. I >> assume this will get upstream at some point (there is some discussion of >> that in the Debian bug). >> >> I don't _absolutely_ love cloud-init, but it's well-understood and common, >> and fits with our existing images, making it easier to document how to do >> things with our image, and etc. > > +1 to sticking with cloud-init going forward. As I said during the > meeting, I'm not a huge fan, but it's predictable and modular. Also, up > to this point we've been trying to keep things similar across different > platforms and using cloud-init on GCE would help continue that pattern. +1 on everything Sam said. cloud-init isn't great but it's probably the best universal approach out there and should be universally used as such. Also, the (non-Fedora-specific) cloud user community has grown accustomed to it by now. >> >> What do we think? >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
