On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Robyn Bergeron
<robyn.bergeron(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:34 PM, David Nalley <david(a)gnsa.us>
wrote:
>>
>> F17 is not ready for automated deployment and hands off yum updates at the
>> customer's sole management -- it hangs wayy too often.
>>
>> In part I don't understand why F17 is so unsuitable; The move to grub2, and
>> its partial completion have caused reboots to fail without warning through
>> updates. It was bad enough to induce us to remove F17 images we had
>> previously made visible to end customers, as the support load exploded and
>> the cusomers did not want to pay for support on a bleeding edge, and
>> unfinished product. F15 and 16 were fine (there was a niggling issue on F16
>> we had to address)
>>
>> -- Russ herrold
>>
>
> Hi Russ,
>
> This is incredibly valuable feedback. If it's not overly proprietary
> information, I'd be fascinated to know what the relative support load
> from various distros is over their various releases. Any chance you
> track that information??
> Would you mind sharing what hypervisor/container you were using.
> Aside from constant reboots, post-update reboots, is there any
> additional areas for testing that you found need more
> attention/testing?
And not to distract from that the above information or train of
thought in general - I will casually mention that this is the type of
thing that makes me think that starting to work with QA on a better
(or perhaps "existent") set of criteria / testing process for cloud
images. I think right now for EC2 it is basically "does it boot" -
and IIRC the switch to grub2 certainly hosed us up quite a bit.
+1 ... it sounds like there will be more that we _can_ test with
cloud-init 0.7 in the picture.
Does anyone test the creation and usage of their own images using
other tools around alpha/beta, or simply wait until
post-final-release?
I've done a couple of rounds of testing with ami-creator as the
builder and Eucalyptus as the target cloud. This is the first Fedora
release I've done that for during alpha/beta, though. I've tried to
use a kickstart as close as possible to the official Fedora one from
cloud-kickstarts; seems okay so far.
Andy