On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 12:54 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2013 14:26:40 -0400 > John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Those are good counter-examples, especially the first. The others > > though leave me less convinced given what I've been doing here for > > the last few years which is to take a customized Fedora Live spin > > with stateless Linux features enabled, plus puppet (considering > > switching to ansible), plus a little glue to make custom appliances > > where networked resources dictate the various roles those appliances > > play ranging from kiosks to firewalls. > > Yeah, agreed. For many other uses I think ansible/formulas or whatever > could work fine. If you don't mind installing a minimal thing and doing > config on top of it to get the appliance/whatever you want it's a great > way to go. ;) I think the other point here is that at least in theory, we can use Formulas as part of a revision to the overall way we build images: you could look at a Formula as a recipe for an image, just as we currently use kickstarts as the recipes for images. There's a vision where we implement an infrastructure that builds our release images based on a blessed set of Formulas. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
