[Openstack-devel] [openstack-dev] Reference Debian image for Openstack

[Julien Danjou]

On Sun, Feb 24 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> This mail is especially addressed to Julien, since he worked on
> cloud-initramfs-tools and cloud-utils.
> 
> Since the guys in debian-cloud at l.d.o have prepared some Debian images
> for AWS and Azure, I was wondering if we should prepare some Openstack
> reference images that we would store at:
> http://openstack.alioth.debian.org/
> 
> This would be great, and would show that there's also some open source
> alternatives to the commercial services above. This would also allow us
> to have (yet another) announcement on the Debian project news.
> 
> Thoughts?

Images prepared for AWS should work on OpenStack. But preparing image in
a format like RAW or QCOW2 is likely a good idea too for OpenStack.

However, I don't think it's the best idea to host them under the
OpenStack umbrella; this kind of images could be used under any
platform, not just OpenStack. Ubuntu calls their images "cloud" and
don't put any stamp on them, I think it'd be a good choice to do the
same.

In the end, working on a tool like the one used by Ubuntu to build
automatically would be an even better project! :)

-- 
Julien Danjou
// Free Software hacker / freelance consultant
// http://julien.danjou.info
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