----- Original Message -----
From: "Kashyap Chamarthy" <kchamart(a)redhat.com>
To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:04:20 PM
Subject: Should Fedora revisit the idea having "one " image to be used
across the cloud providers?
(Re-directing the discussion from #fedora-cloud on Freenode..)
Heya,
(Without trying to make it a large 'theoretical' discussion..)
So, should we (Fedora) reconsider the "noble goal" (as Matthew Miller put it)
of having
one cloud image serve all cloud providers? Or separate images (sure, there's
more work
involved) that are specific
As a few others have stated - I think it would be best to just have one image (to rule
them all, muhahah); if nothing else, it helps to eliminate possibilities around what and
why it's broken and so forth. I also can totally see a situation where some flavors of
images (for lack of a better term) eventually get so buried in little changes here and
there that they just become technical debt that we will struggle to pay off if we do want
to later pursue the Noble Goal.
I also agree with the multi-vendor, cloudbursting scenario that Robert mentioned later in
this thread, and how that just makes management of images more difficult; while I would
guess that a user sophisticated enough to be in the cloud is possibly creating images of
their own, I still think they'd want to ensure that their starting point is consistent
so that any automation they have doesn't need to be riddled with if/then scenarios.
Because, lately we've seen several problems where cloud-init has been
breaking things in
subtle ways, like output of boot messages on console.log for
OpenStack/Amazon/Eucalyptus
has been broken in different
I wonder if this is something we should be testing for?
Garret Holmstrom and Matthew Miller (both who's been in the trenches of these
issues can
describe much better than I can at this midnight hour). They also discussed a
couple of
ideas on IRC like
- configuring journald to forward to both syslog and the console
e.g. (please read the issue described above)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977952 -- RFE: disable all
direct writes to
the console
And, comparing Fedora images with Cirros -- they output a neat array of bunch
of commands
(I think I noted this previously on this list) that's helpful for debugging.
Refer this
previous thread
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2013-April/002371.html
but haven't reached a proper conclusion.
Any further thoughts from other folks here on how to resolve this would be
nice to hear.
--
/kashyap
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