On 10/03/2012 06:29 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > hi Guys, > > As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images > consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private > clouds ) - it would be great to have a baseline package manifest worked > out. > > What / how many images should we build. At this time we were thinking of > doing : > > - CentOS-5 32bit minimal > - CentOS-6 32bit minimal > > - CentOS-5 64bit minimal > - CentOS-6 64bit minimal > > - CentOS-5 64bit LAMP > - CentOS-6 64bit LAMP > > What would be the minimal functional requirements people would expect > from these images ? and what rpms should be installed ? Should root > login be enabled or should we require people to go in via a 'centos' > user. Should the image be self-updating, or should we have a post-login > message that indicates outstanding updates ? Have you considered equipping these with cloud-init? While i don't have any practical experience with myself yet it should allow to build a minimal image yet allow the creation cutomized flavors for users. The problem I see is that the moment you include say vim-enhanced instead of emacs or postfix instead of sendmail you'll get into a political fight. The only way I see is to make the minimal images truly as minimal as possible and then allow people to pull in stuff using cloud-init (or alternative mechanisms). Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
