On 12/10/2013 08:45 AM, Sandro "red" Mathys wrote:
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Joe Brockmeier jzb@redhat.com wrote:
On 12/10/2013 04:45 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
Two short thoughts about this:
- do we really need to distinguish between public, private and hybrid
cloud? IMHO that shouldn't really matter for the image.
It matters for the image format (AMI vs. qcow2, etc.) and may matter for packages that are included in the image as well.
Why would it matter for the format? AMI or qcow2 both work in public, private and hybrid clouds. Or am I missing something?
AMI is preferred on Amazon. Don't think it's a supported format for CloudStack, not sure about OpenStack. I don't think you can directly import qcow2 to EC2.
Also: we're already producing these images. I'm guessing we didn't do so randomly.
Any examples what should be different in terms of packages? I can't think of anything that is public/private/hybrid specific.
EC2 has its own tools that, IIRC, are bundled with the AMI. (ec2-utils) Not sure whether we can ship that package or not, I don't see it currently.