cloud-init package dependencies

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:27:45PM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> > You can ask for that user-data file more than once, though. It'd be kind of
> > nice if *that* listed the plugins needed.
> You might actually be able to do that now, but cloud-init doesn't yet
> have a way to install plugins that are missing.  If that gets
> implemented then this becomes easy!  :-)

What about a service that runs before cloud-init itself, scans the user-data
for needed plugins, and then yum-installs them if they're missing?

It woudn't have to be that smart -- if it hit something complicated, it
could just throw up its hands and install the whole shebang.

The primary downside I can see is that it's probably slower to do that than
to just have it all there.

I'm kinda thinking we should offer a super-small-no-cloud-init image (maybe
even stripped of locale info and whatever), and a larger "batteries
included" version.


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