Other cloud providers - Fedora on things other than EC2 + marketing

[Chris Lalancette]

On 11/03/10 - 08:17:26AM, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> On 11/02/10 - 08:33:48PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > We had some ins at Amazon who helped us along.   If we can get the same kind
> > of ins at Rackspace, move forward, I say.
> > 
> > Probably a good idea to prioritize, since the cycles are limited.  Is
> > Rackspace the next vendor to target?  Seems possible.
> > 
> > It's also a good way to test Deltacloud with some real use cases.
> 
> Yes, definitely.  Also note that, as part of the deltacloud project, we are in
> the process of developing some tools that can generate various different guest
> OS images for various different cloud targets.  Boxgrinder is one of those
> technologies; there are a couple more in the works (with not much to show yet)
> for targetting additional OSs and additional clouds.

It was pointed out to me off-list that you can't actually upload images to
rackspace at the moment.  So while the above is helpful in general, we still
need to talk to rackspace to get "initial" images in there.  Some of the other
cloud providers are the same way.

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Chris Lalancette