On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 10/28/2015 08:21 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> The *could* be the same thing,
> except cloud-init is terrible and I hate it and if that was the single
> offering we had for some kind of C&S WG I would cry. I hate it
> because it is ridiculous to use in a non-cloud environment, and Server
> very much has that as part of it's reach.
Forking this thread briefly because I think this deserves its own
discussion.
Is your objection primarily to the concept of cloud-init or the
implementation? If it's the concept, not much we can help with there. If
it's the implementation...
We've talked about replacing cloud-init a few times in the past, but
there are two objections:
- cloud-init is "standard" and we have an uphill marketing battle to get
our image adopted with something else.
- lack of a great alternative.
This is one of the utilities I've often thought it would be great for
the systemd group of utilities to absorb as it crosses over into a
bunch of that space like setting hostnames, auth etc. I believe they'd
likely do it some justice.
Peter