On 03/19/2015 08:54 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On 03/18/2015 06:38 PM, David Gay wrote: >> Greetings! >> >> We sort of ran out of time in today's Cloud WG meeting, but I did want >> to ask: >> >> What are your thoughts on AMI lifetimes? That is to say, how long should >> EC2 AMIs exist before they're deleted? A few points to consider: > > I feel like I should know this, but I don't. > > If a user spins up an AMI and then it's deleted by the provider, do they > still have their instance(s) or do they lose the ability to create new > images? The instances they already started would still run and be available, but they wouldn't be able to spin up anything new. If creating/killing instances is something they do a lot (autoscaling groups, worker farms, etc) then that could hose them just as surely as killing their existing instances. > That would color my response a bit. > > Do we know how other projects handle theirs? If I go to spin up a Foo > Linux release from 2 years ago, is the AMI still there? > > At minimum, we should probably delete any AMIs that are no longer a > supported version of Fedora, and I'd also be for deleting any TC, alpha, > beta, etc. AMIs - especially once a release is published. So, for > instance, any F21 alpha, beta, etc. AMIs can probably go to the great > bit bucket in the sky at this point. > > Also wonder if this is something we need to have ACK'ed by FESCo? > > Best, > > jzb > > > > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > -- Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
