Fedora Cloud Guide sprint IRC log

Robyn Bergeron rbergero at redhat.com
Thu Sep 15 18:58:50 UTC 2011


Hey folks,

Sparks and I and many others (thank you!) just chatted for an hour or so 
in #fedora-cloud on IRC about plans for the Cloud Guide.

Notes below - you may want to read the logs as well. If you have any 
ideas on anything we've missed, please feel free to add your thoughts to 
this thread.

Thanks,

Robyn

Minutes: 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-cloud/2011-09-15/cloudy_docs_sprint.2011-09-15-17.11.html
Full Log: 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-cloud/2011-09-15/cloudy_docs_sprint.2011-09-15-17.11.log.html

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#fedora-cloud: Cloudy Docs Sprint
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 17:11:21 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-cloud/2011-09-15/cloudy_docs_sprint.2011-09-15-17.11.log.html
.



Meeting summary
---------------
* BoxGrinder  (rbergeron, 17:13:45)
   * IDEA: Boxgrinder basics - what it is, how it works, etc.
     (rbergeron, 17:15:03)
   * IDEA: Using BoxGrinder to create a Fedora image  (rbergeron,
     17:15:19)
   * IDEA: Using the BoxGrinder/Fedora AMI on EC2 to create a Fedora
     instance on Amazon  (rbergeron, 17:15:42)
   * LINK: http://boxgrinder.org/   (rbergeron, 17:16:16)
   * LINK:
     http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/boxgrinder-build-usage-instructions/
     (rbergeron, 17:16:37)
   * LINK: http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/   (rbergeron, 17:16:55)
   * IDEA: go into some of the details about OS options, platform
     plugins, delivery plugsins  (rbergeron, 17:17:54)
   * Some of this info may be well-written out already in BG
     documentation  (rbergeron, 17:18:08)
   * OS plugins - rhel, fedora, centos (various version)  (rbergeron,
     17:18:48)
   * Platform plugins - virtualbox, vmware, ec2  (rbergeron, 17:19:04)
   * Delivery platforms (where it can get delivered AUTOMAGICALLY) - EBS,
     cloudfront for S3, sftp, ami for s3, local filesystem, s3 for s3
     (rbergeron, 17:20:15)
   * IDEA: Connive spevack into writing up some documentation or
     something about What All These Different Amazon Things Are
     (rbergeron, 17:20:33)
   * LINK:
     https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Cloud_Guide/index.html
     (Sparks, 17:23:12)
   * BG guys hang in #boxgrinder  (rbergeron, 17:23:54)

* HekaFS  (rbergeron, 17:31:54)
   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HekaFS   (Sparks, 17:33:16)
   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SimpleHekaFS ksa  (kkeithley,
     17:33:52)
   * hekafs is a layer on top of glusterfs  (rbergeron, 17:40:59)

* OpenStack  (rbergeron, 17:45:12)
   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenStack
     (rbergeron, 17:47:34)
   * LINK:
     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova
     (rbergeron, 17:47:53)
   * OpenSTack has a few individual pieces that we have right now that
     can be documented individually if we want - Nova, Swift, and Glance
     (rbergeron, 17:48:36)
   * Nova is management/UI/deploying of things, Swift is object storage,
     and Glance is image creation  (rbergeron, 17:49:20)
   * LINK: http://docs.openstack.org/   (rbergeron, 17:50:06)
   * LINK:
     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova
     (gholms, 17:53:11)
   * LINK:
     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova
     (Sparks, 17:53:42)
   * openstack getting started guide needs to tell you wheree to get the
     euca-* commands from  (rbergeron, 17:53:44)
   * IDEA: Having at least some basic info about what is euca2ools might
     be useful, at least WRT sections on AWS and Nova  (rbergeron,
     17:56:55)
   * gholms can answer euca-related questions if needed.  (rbergeron,
     17:57:38)

* Aeolus  (rbergeron, 17:57:44)
   * LINK: http://aeolusproject.org/use_it.html   (rbergeron, 17:58:11)
   * Aeolus is made up of a bunch of different pieces - Audrey,
     Conductor, Configure, ImageFactory, Image Warehouse, Oz, Spherical.
     (rbergeron, 17:58:46)
   * Pieces of Aeolus used in Fedora are Conductor, Configure,
     ImageFactory, Image Warehouse, Oz.  (rbergeron, 18:03:08)
   * LINK: OZ Documentation - http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html
     (rbergeron, 18:05:16)
   * jclift (justin clift, aeolus comm. mgr) is probably the right person
     to ask.  (rbergeron, 18:05:49)

* Sheepdog  (rbergeron, 18:07:26)
   * LINK: http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/   (rbergeron, 18:07:48)
   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sheepdog   (rbergeron,
     18:08:07)
   * LINK: https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/wiki   (rbergeron,
     18:08:33)
   * LINK: https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/wiki/Getting-Started
     (rbergeron, 18:09:11)

* Anything else?  (rbergeron, 18:10:40)
   * LINK:
     http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Cloud_Guide/index.html
     (rbergeron, 18:13:45)
   * LINK: http://matahariproject.org/manual/   (russellb, 18:14:44)
   * LINK: http://matahariproject.org/manual/   (Sparks, 18:14:53)
   * Matahari would be good for "tools you can use to manage fedora
     systems deployed in a cloud"  (rbergeron, 18:15:00)
   * Still outstanding - need info from Ian Main (slower on irc) re:
     condor cloud  (rbergeron, 18:18:34)

* How to get Fedora for use on EC2  (rbergeron, 18:19:13)
   * We have AMIs for Fedora (knock on wood) published to EC2.
     (rbergeron, 18:20:45)
   * IDEA: How do we find them, where do we get the information?
     (rbergeron, 18:20:55)
   * IDEA: How do I get a vm started, what can i use it for, what are all
     these various AWS services  (rbergeron, 18:21:32)
   * IDEA: Troll Max Spevack at all possible opportunities  (rbergeron,
     18:21:55)

Meeting ended at 18:40:15 UTC.




Action Items
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Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
   * (none)




People Present (lines said)
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* rbergeron (181)
* Sparks (58)
* gholms (47)
* clalance (29)
* russellb (12)
* zoglesby (9)
* kkeithley (8)
* ke4qqq (6)
* zodbot (5)
* jsmith (4)
* msavy (3)
* mdomsch (1)
* sparks (0)


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