Kickstart a Fedora (Anaconda) Install on EC2
by Raphaël De GIUSTI
Hi everyone,
I've been playing around with Amazon EC2, building my own Centos and Fedora
EBS backed AMI's without much trouble, following tutorials and other
practices I found on the internet.
But one thing I'd like to do, and I tried to do, is kickstarting an
installation using anaconda.
So I would have an minimal AMI that only contains a /boot directory with
vmlinuz and initrd + a /boot/grub/menu.lst file that would look like this :
default 0
timeout 3
title RH-Like-OS
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=http://some.server/myks.cfg
initrd /boot/initrd.img
And it would parse my ks, start anaconda and go on with the install.
The further I managed to go is to the partioning step with Centos55. If
someone's interested, there's my unanswered thread on amazon aws' forums
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=216575#216575
Same process with Fedora 14 only brings me to pvgrub reading the menu.lst,
then failing on a mmu_update.
So, here come my questions:
I was wondering what, technically speaking, prevents me from doing this.
And maybe I would understand why everyone is building the system from
scratch and why I did not find anyone who tried to do the same thing.
Note that I'm not an expert at linux kernels or boot processes, but I'm
quite curious, and I would really appreciate if you could help me understand
:-)
Thank you.
raphdg
12 years, 6 months
two-factor auth for Fedora in "the cloud?"
by Brian LaMere
Anyone have luck setting up two-factor auth for Fedora in "the Cloud" -
preferably, at AWS? Yes, I got one of the token generators discussed at
http://aws.amazon.com/mfa/
However, those only appear to help with authentication to (per the faq):
- Secure pages on the AWS Portal (http://aws.amazon.com)
- AWS Management Console (https://console.aws.amazon.com)
What if I need to multi-factor auth to the instances themselves? Anyone
know if there's a service out there that does this for Fedora (or RedHat,
which can easily be made to work for...) instances in the "cloud?"
I'm used to doing this locally and then making the remote systems only allow
access via a limited number of machines (which themselves do 2-factor). I'm
now in a situation though with every workstation being outside the trust
zone completely, VPN not being something that could change that (too many
details...), and thus needing to accomplish the 2-factor in the cloud
itself. Most of the results from "two factor authentication cloud" I get
are about cloud-based providers authenticating the local machines...versus
what I need, which is a service that I can auth cloud-based machines against
for the second factor. I know of many industries that would *have* to have
a 2-factor solution to use cloud instances, so surely my google-fu is just
not working...anyone gone down this road themselves yet?
Brian
12 years, 8 months
anyone still looking for roommies at FUDConn?
by Brian LaMere
So much busy...and come 1pm thursdays, there's just been something that came
up. That said, I'm running away to something called "FUDConn" this weekend,
and am listed as lookin for a roommie but I think the "V" in the box two
columns over might have scared people. So, don't let that fool you, I'm not
going to eat your shirts, even if they are cotton!
In all seriousness, anyone on the list going, interested in a roommie, but
doesn't have one?
Brian
12 years, 8 months
Virtualization and HotPlugging/swapping
by Renich Bon Ciric
Hello guys!
I'm in direct contact with the guys @ CloudSigma.
I've asked them to support CPU, RAM and HDD hot swapping and they say
their system is capable of this but that linux (particularly, Fedora)
isn't.
They agree to do some testing on the subject but, honestly, I don't
consider myself to be sufficiently knowledgeable to lead this.
Is there anybody here interested on this?
Anyway, their lead dev told them this:
"Libvirt doesn't do any of this stuff itself (hot swapping). What it
does include is
an ability to use the virtio balloon driver. This essentially allows you to
give a guest a large amount of ram, with it then voluntarily lending some of
that memory back to the system. It requires a degree of cooperation and
trust between host and guest that isn't appropriate (or easy to bill) in a
public cloud, but it's a useful hack on private VM deployments in the
absence of proper memory hotswap in qemu-kvm."
I've read some stuff here:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/CPUHotPlug
It's hard to be free... but I love to struggle. Love isn't asked for;
it's just given. Respect isn't asked for; it's earned!
Renich Bon Ciric
http://www.woralelandia.com/
http://www.introbella.com/
12 years, 8 months
Cloud SIG Meeting minutes - 2011/01/20
by Robyn Bergeron
Hello Cloud folks, near and far:
Full minutes for today's meeting are below. I am looking forward to
seeing many of you next week at FUDCon. We will still be having a
meeting next week beforehand. :)
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-20/cloud_sig.2011...
Full Logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-20/cloud_sig.2011...
-Robyn
==========================
#fedora-meeting: Cloud SIG
==========================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:15 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-20/cloud_sig.2011...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call! :) (rbergeron, 21:00:33)
* Agenda (rbergeron, 21:02:20)
* EC2 (rbergeron, 21:03:38)
* dgilmore has a working image build, 32bit tweaks just need to be
added (rbergeron, 21:05:47)
* once AMI images are in koji we can put links to them (probably on
cloud SIG page) (rbergeron, 21:10:56)
* ACTION: mgoldmann to ping obino at somepoint re: BG plugin /
eucalyptus (rbergeron, 21:16:10)
* ACTION: jforbes to send obino appliance file that was working in BG,
see logs for more how-to (rbergeron, 21:16:46)
* BoxGrinder (rbergeron, 21:18:46)
* BG 0.8.0 will hopefully be released this week, if not - before
FUDCon - we can see it there! :) (rbergeron, 21:20:43)
* last plugin is currently being reviewed and should be done shortly
(rbergeron, 21:20:54)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet_HowTo (rbergeron,
21:24:57)
* CloudFS (rbergeron, 21:25:13)
* packaging for multi-tenancy and encryption bits is in progress
(rbergeron, 21:26:47)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule (rbergeron, 21:30:29)
* Aeolus / Deltacloud (rbergeron, 21:32:42)
* Check out aeolus -there was a note from clalance on the mailing list
on Deltacloud --> Aeolus Project (rbergeron, 21:38:45)
* FUDCon (rbergeron, 21:40:40)
* ACTION: Be completely responsible adults at FUDCon and have a cloud
SIG get together (rbergeron, 21:46:20)
Meeting ended at 21:47:56 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* mgoldmann to ping obino at somepoint re: BG plugin / eucalyptus
* jforbes to send obino appliance file that was working in BG, see logs
for more how-to
* Be completely responsible adults at FUDCon and have a cloud SIG get
together
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jforbes
* jforbes to send obino appliance file that was working in BG, see
logs for more how-to
* mgoldmann
* mgoldmann to ping obino at somepoint re: BG plugin / eucalyptus
* obino
* mgoldmann to ping obino at somepoint re: BG plugin / eucalyptus
* jforbes to send obino appliance file that was working in BG, see
logs for more how-to
* **UNASSIGNED**
* Be completely responsible adults at FUDCon and have a cloud SIG get
together
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (93)
* mgoldmann (29)
* obino (19)
* clalance (19)
* jforbes (18)
* jdarcy (13)
* zodbot (3)
* bpepple (2)
* mmorsi (2)
* jsmith (1)
12 years, 8 months
Tentative Cloud SIG Meeting Reminder: 2011/01/20, 2100 UTC, in #fedora-meeting
by Robyn Bergeron
Hey there, Fedora Cloud fans -
That's right, the subject says "tentative" - as most of you know, the
Cloud SIG meeting has a habit of starting at 2100 UTC, which is the end
of infrastructure's meeting hour, and we usually wind up kicking them
out (sorry, guys!). Infrastructure may or may not be meeting with some
folks from Eucalyptus today about the prospects of Fedora having some
infrastructure-related things on their servers - and since we're the
Cloud SIG, it would probably be a good idea to not kick them out during
that discussion :)
That said, I think it obviously dovetails nicely with some of the stuff
we do in the Cloud SIG - and if their meeting winds up going over, it
certainly won't hurt to stick around and watch. And if they don't go
over, our meeting will proceed ahead as planned.
Thanks!
Meeting Details: Thursday, 2011/01/20 @2100 UTC (In NA - East coast,
4pm; West coast, 1pm.)
Meeting channel: #fedora-meeting, irc.freenode.net
Other details are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG.
-Robyn
12 years, 8 months
Rename of deltacloud aggregator
by Chris Lalancette
All,
A few months ago we transferred the deltacloud API and core over to the
apache foundation. Along with that we have also transferred the name
"deltacloud" to apache (at least in spirit, I don't know what the legal
situation is).
To reduce confusion between the API and what is currently called the
deltacloud aggregator, and to give a new home to the sub-projects that the
aggregator depends on, we are launching the http://www.aeolusproject.org
website. Aeolus is the Greek god of wind, so we think it fits in nicely with
the cloud theme. The aggregator will be formally renamed to
"Aeolus Conductor", and several of the subprojects that the Conductor depends
on will be added to the website. The old deltacloud git repositories will be
marked read-only, and new development will happen in the aeolus repositories.
Additionally, http://deltacloud.org will be modified to redirect to the
apache incubator page.
We plan on making the changes to the mailing lists, git repositories, and
website on Monday, Jan 17. The code inside the git repositories will probably
continue to use the old names for a little while longer, but we will patch them
as quickly as possible.
As usual, any questions, comments, or criticisms are welcome.
--
Chris Lalancette
12 years, 8 months
