ANNOUNCE: oz 0.5.0 release
by Chris Lalancette
All,
I'm pleased to announce release 0.5.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing
automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the
user.
Release 0.5.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the
highlights between Oz 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 are:
- Replace icicle-nc binary with a shell script to try various methods. Besides
being more portable, this also allows us to convert Oz to a noarch RPM (thanks
to Padraig Brady)
- Support for Ubuntu 6.06
- Support for md5sum/sha1sum/sha256sum checking of ISOs after download
- New -x flag for oz-install to write the libvirt XML file to a user-specified
location (thanks to Steve Dake)
- Support for OpenSUSE customization
- Support for F-15 customization (thanks to Steve Dake)
- Support for running commands at the end of package installation (thanks to
Steve Dake)
Fedora 14 and RHEL-6 packages are available for this release. Note that to
install the RHEL-6 packages, you must be running RHEL-6.1 or later.
Instructions of how to get and use Oz are available at
http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html
If you have any questions or comments about Oz, please feel free to contact
aeolus-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org or me (clalance(a)redhat.com) directly.
--
Chris Lalancette
12 years, 3 months
BoxGrinder Build 0.9.3 released!
by Marek Goldmann
Hi all!
I'm happy to announce that yesterday we released BoxGrinder Build 0.9.3. Full blog post highlighting the release you can find below:
http://boxgrinder.org/blog/2011/06/28/boxgrinder-0-9-3-released/
Features worth mentioning:
* Full EC2 region support - you can now build and deliver EBS backed AMIs to every region.
* Additionally new Tokio region was added.
* Great improvements in reliability for the EBS delivery plug-in
* You can build Scientific Linux appliances
sl-jeos.appl:
name: sl-jeos
os:
name: sl
version: 6
boxgrinder-build sl-jeos.appl -p ec2 -d ami
(uh, can it be easier?)
* Overwrite support for S3 and EBS appliances
boxgrinder-build my-appliance.appl -p ec2 -d ami --delivery-config overwrite:true
* New validation mechanism where the plugin validation is executed for all plugins in chain before the build.
Additionally we created new meta appliances (version 1.6) for you in every EC2 region (as well as downloadable ones). Give it a try and build your appliances easily!
http://boxgrinder.org/download/boxgrinder-build-meta-appliance/
Thanks!
--Marek
12 years, 3 months
Cloud SIG Meeting Minutes - 2011-06-24
by Robyn Bergeron
Hey folks,
Meeting minutes follow. Thanks for a great turnout this week!
-Robyn
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-24/cloud_sig.2011...
Logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-24/cloud_sig.2011...
==========================
#fedora-meeting: Cloud SIG
==========================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 19:00:14 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-24/cloud_sig.2011...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Who's here? (rbergeron, 19:00:30)
* EC2 (rbergeron, 19:02:22)
* Problem: Fedora has not published any non-test EC2 images (gholms,
19:32:20)
* ACTION: rbergeron to take Amazon stuff and turn into two separate
fedora "blessing" proposals to drive through process, starting with
rel-eng (rbergeron, 19:39:09)
* ACTION: rbergeron to talk to dgilmore about just using the BG images
that are already up and making those official, vs. waiting for koji
stuff to sort out (rbergeron, 19:39:37)
* CloudFS (rbergeron, 19:43:02)
* ACTION: kkeithley to wrap up packaging, work with ke4qqq on
sponsorship, sync with clalance on aeolus reviews (rbergeron,
19:49:20)
* Aeolus (rbergeron, 19:50:01)
* clalance et al working on getting a 0.3.0 release of aeolus out,
packaged in f-16. (rbergeron, 19:53:11)
* Cloudstack (rbergeron, 19:53:20)
* cloudstack is in progress. (rbergeron, 19:54:10)
* Sheepdog (rbergeron, 19:54:35)
* Sheepdog is done, in, packaged. Other feature-related things could
go in, though. (rbergeron, 19:56:45)
* ACTION: ke4qqq to update sheepdog feature page at his convenience
(rbergeron, 19:57:00)
* Open floor (rbergeron, 19:57:08)
* LINK: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3153175
(ke4qqq, 19:59:19)
* HELP: Testers wanted for new openstack-swift version (gholms,
19:59:51)
* openstack-swift testing appreciated (rbergeron, 19:59:54)
* LINK:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2011-June/000647.html
(rbergeron, 20:00:52)
Meeting ended at 20:05:39 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* rbergeron to take Amazon stuff and turn into two separate fedora
"blessing" proposals to drive through process, starting with rel-eng
* rbergeron to talk to dgilmore about just using the BG images that are
already up and making those official, vs. waiting for koji stuff to
sort out
* kkeithley to wrap up packaging, work with ke4qqq on sponsorship, sync
with clalance on aeolus reviews
* ke4qqq to update sheepdog feature page at his convenience
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* clalance
* kkeithley to wrap up packaging, work with ke4qqq on sponsorship,
sync with clalance on aeolus reviews
* ke4qqq
* kkeithley to wrap up packaging, work with ke4qqq on sponsorship,
sync with clalance on aeolus reviews
* ke4qqq to update sheepdog feature page at his convenience
* kkeithley
* kkeithley to wrap up packaging, work with ke4qqq on sponsorship,
sync with clalance on aeolus reviews
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to take Amazon stuff and turn into two separate fedora
"blessing" proposals to drive through process, starting with rel-eng
* rbergeron to talk to dgilmore about just using the BG images that
are already up and making those official, vs. waiting for koji stuff
to sort out
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (135)
* jforbes (46)
* ke4qqq (27)
* clalance (21)
* gholms (20)
* kkeithley (14)
* jsmith (11)
* zodbot (4)
* msavy (2)
* mmorsi (1)
Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4
.. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot
12 years, 3 months
Swift 1.4.0 build in koji
by David Nalley
Hi folks,
I have an updated openstack-swift build that brings it to 1.4.0 (I
know, I know, 1.4.1 is out, but they did some things that I think
weren't terribly appropriate for a point release including renaming
binaries, stripping out the auth service, etc and besides it will take
a bit of work to get 1.4.1 ready :) )
For the time being, openstack-swift should be usable, and 1.4.x is
certainly what we should be targeting for F16. So feel free to test
and report problems you have.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3153175
Thanks,
--David
12 years, 3 months
owncloud packaging?
by Steve Gordon
Hi guys,
Apologies I haven't been able to attend the meetings since we changed the timeslot, I am sure you have all gotten on fine without me and my limited input though ;). I am currently evaluating ownCloud ( http://owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page ) and am wondering if it is worth putting on the roadmap in Fedora somewhere down the track.
I'm a bit dubious about how much of a 'cloud' tool this really is but that said I can see the benefits, particularly once they get integration with consuming applications which are already packaged going. There is also nothing to stop end users setting it up in such a way that it is a true cloud tool backed by redundant storage either - just that the current examples I can find all appear to be throwing it up on a single VPS.
If you want to try it out you can get a free, basic (albeit old stable release) of it setup on packagecloud (Warning, referrer link: https://www.packagecloud.com/?au=owncloud), this is what I have done for now. I'm currently evaluating the development version in a VM at home to see what has/hasn't changed, unfortunately it really seems like a bit of a chicken and egg thing though as I don't think it will improve much in utility until they get the apps support sorted but I can see they are working at that. Note that it has a webdav interface as well as the HTML UI so you can access it using nautilus, firefox, etc.
Thought I'd throw it in the ring and see what people think anyway. The developers appear to hang out in #owncloud on FreeNode if people want to ask them questions.
Cheers,
Steve
12 years, 3 months
(Disk layout **IS** improved in Fedora 15): Fedora 15 EC2 Images Availability
by Simon Smith
IGNORE PREVIOUS EMAIL FROM ME
I discovered my bootstrapping script was still using the AMI ID from
Fedora 14. Fedora 15 has an improved allocation, with ~10GB for /.
THANK YOU for changing the allocation. You folks rock!
Simon
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Simon Smith <simongsmith(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed the lopsided disk allocation (2Gb to /, 414GB to each of
> /mnt and /data) is still present in the Amazon EC2 64-bit image. My
> personal bootstrapping script already (because of Fedora 14) does a
> bunch of mv, rsync and ln commands to compensate, but I was hoping
> this Fedora 15 release would have a more balanced disk allocation. Is
> there some bug tracking system that I should have used, in addition to
> mentioning it on this list? I'll certainly report an issue if it
> might mean that Fedora 16 has a more balanced allocation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM, István <leccine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> One more question, did you fix the missing man pages bug?
>> Thank you in advance,
>> I.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Unknow <unknow(a)goyman.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for this information, and for updating the page.
>>>
>>> I see these test images are in the us-east-1 availability zone. When you
>>> say EBS-backed images will be available soon, are you talking about all
>>> availability zones or only us-east-1?
>>>
>>> I ask this because I'm waiting for images in the eu-west-1 availability
>>> zone for my server.
>>>
>>> Best Regards.
>>>
>>> On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:12:25AM +0200, Unknow wrote:
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I've been using the Fedora 14 EC2 images since their release. I now
>>> >> look forward to upgrading my servers since Fedora 15 has come out, but I
>>> >> cannot find any information about the EC2 images.
>>> >>
>>> >> The EC2 Images page on the Fedora website lists only Fedora 14 images.
>>> >> The Cloud SIG page already contains information about Fedora 16 plans, but
>>> >> little to no information about Fedora 15. All I know is that there was a
>>> >> test day.
>>> >>
>>> >> Is there a release date for these images? Where can I find more
>>> >> information?
>>> >>
>>> > There are currently some test images available:
>>> >
>>> > 32bit ami-1a1ee773
>>> >
>>> > 64bit ami-7a1ee713
>>> >
>>> > EBS backed versions of these should be available within the next 24
>>> > hours.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Justin M. Forbes
>>> > _______________________________________________
>>> > cloud mailing list
>>> > cloud(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>>> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> cloud mailing list
>>> cloud(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> the sun shines for all
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> cloud mailing list
>> cloud(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
>>
>>
>
12 years, 4 months
Fedora 15 EC2 Images Availability
by Unknow
Hi,
I've been using the Fedora 14 EC2 images since their release. I now look forward to upgrading my servers since Fedora 15 has come out, but I cannot find any information about the EC2 images.
The EC2 Images page on the Fedora website lists only Fedora 14 images. The Cloud SIG page already contains information about Fedora 16 plans, but little to no information about Fedora 15. All I know is that there was a test day.
Is there a release date for these images? Where can I find more information?
Best Regards,
Arcturus
12 years, 4 months
ANNOUNCE: oz 0.4.0 release
by Chris Lalancette
All,
I'm pleased to announce release 0.4.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing
automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the
user.
Release 0.4.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the
highlights between Oz 0.3.0 and 0.4.0 are:
- Automatic detection/use of cached JEOS images (the previous method required
the user of the oz libraries to detect whether the image was cached or not)
- Fixes to make Debian installs work for both x86_64 and i386
- Honor user-provided automatic installation files better, by not doing
modifications
- Use pyparted to generate partitions on newly created disks (if necessary)
- Add support for Fedora 15
- Add the ability to supply an initial root/Administrator password to the
diskimage
- Abort installs after 5 minutes of disk inactivity
- Use M2Crypto to generate SSH keys (if necessary)
- Some pydoc documentation (more of this to come in the future)
- Support for Ubuntu 11.04
- Support for RHEL-6.1
More documentation on Oz (including links on how to obtain it) is available
here: http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html
For this release, Fedora 14 and RHEL-6 packages are available. Note that I
have stopped providing Fedora 13 packages, since that distribution is (or
will be) out of support. Also note that to install the RHEL-6
packages, you must be running RHEL-6.1 or later.
If you have any questions or comments about Oz, please feel free to contact
aeolus-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org or me (clalance(a)redhat.com) directly.
Thanks,
--
Chris Lalancette
12 years, 4 months
