Re: GCE - cloud init, or google-daemon/google-startup-scripts
On 11/13/2013 12:55 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
The documentation for building an image for Google Compute Engine
(GCE):
https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/building-image
Most of this is very similar to our existing cloud images. A few of the
changes we could integrate across the board. Some will need testing
(hostname setting?), but I don't see anything exotic.
Debian is carrying a patch for cloud-init provided by Google
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725384, and we could do the
same instead of integrating google-daemon and google-startup-scripts. I
assume this will get upstream at some point (there is some discussion of
that in the Debian bug).
I don't _absolutely_ love cloud-init, but it's well-understood and common,
and fits with our existing images, making it easier to document how to do
things with our image, and etc.
+1 to sticking with cloud-init going forward. As I said during the
meeting, I'm not a huge fan, but it's predictable and modular. Also, up
to this point we've been trying to keep things similar across different
platforms and using cloud-init on GCE would help continue that pattern.
What do we think?