P2P Packaging/Koji Cloud

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:35:03 -0500
Mo Morsi <mmorsi at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/07/2011 01:25 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>  >
>  >>
>  >> That would be very cool. Do you intend to use DeltaCloud (
>  >> http://deltacloud.apache.org/), or something like that?
>  > I'm using libcloud, actually. I'm interested in pursuing this in
>  > python, not ruby.
>  >
> 
> 
> Deltacloud's primary interface is REST based so you can use it from
> any language. Additionally there are python specific bindings to the
> REST interface that are pretty simple to use.
> 
> https://github.com/mifo/deltacloud-python
> 

The infrastructure to deal with deltacloud is much higher than just
using libcloud. Having to have a daemon running just to do
communication is, imo, not acceptable for something being spawned off
like this. deltacloudd makes deltacloud a non-starter for me.



> In any case, another nifty idea would be to use Snap to take
> snapshots of the build environments on the cloud for local
> replication on different Koji systems and/or local vms:
> 
> https://github.com/movitto/snap
> 

sapping them is going to involve a lot of bandwidth which costs money.
Since we have a mirror inside the amazon ec2 network space snapping is
likely to be MORE expensive than just installing from there.

-sv