On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Nice to have. > 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 A good starting point. I have been doing something similar - create a bunch of image templates At present, we have 1. A portable desktop appliance - basically a LXDE desktop install that can be dd'd onto a 4GB pen drive. 2. Min. server with ssh and ntp enabled. 3. LAMP (PHP, Python, MySQL, postgreSQL) for web development platform. 4. Desktop KDE with KDM supporting XDMCP for a quick demo of remote desktop 5. Desktop with Qt SDK 6. Desktop with GTK SDK 7. Server with postfix+dovecot+roundcube for email server deployment 8. DB server (MySQL, postgreSQL) for production deployment. The above is in a mix of CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu base. Whenever anyone needs a pristine base, I copy the appropriate image file, boot it with virt-manager, change the network parameters, hostname etc. and hand it over to the developer/sysadmin. > What would be the minimal functional requirements people would expect > from these images ? and what rpms should be installed ? Take a look at the turnkeylinux.org appliances to see what others are doing. > Should root > login be enabled or should we require people to go in via a 'centos' > user. I vote for the sudo approach. One can always do "sudo su -" as that user and would be equivalent to ssh root@somehost. > Should the image be self-updating, or should we have a post-login > message that indicates outstanding updates ? I vote for a post login message. The VM sysadmin has more control. Keep us posted on the progress. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
