cloud Digest, Vol 38, Issue 21

[Steve Loranz]

Imagefactory is more than a REST interface to oz. Oz creates a JEOS image. The customization that oz performs is limited to installing additional packages or running commands within a VM started with the JEOS image. Oz does not have knowledge of what needs to be added or how an image needs to be translated for a specific virtualization platform or cloud target. This is what imgfac brings to the party.

I really wish we could get past the notion that imagefactory is just a REST interface to oz. What are we doing wrong on imgfac.org that leads people to see imagefactory this way? Maybe I should be happy about this, because it means we're doing a good job of hiding what is needed to go from base image to provider image for cloud targets like EC2 and vSphere.

-steve

On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:00 AM, cloud-request at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:06:19 +0100
> From: Giulio Fidente <gfidente at fedoraproject.org>
> To: Fedora Cloud SIG <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: fedora cloud images (non ec2 providers)
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> On 02/26/2013 08:40 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:05:45PM +0100, Giulio Fidente wrote:
>>> I was wondering if there is any work ongoing to announce those more
>>> officially or if any help is wanted to rebuild/maintain some more images
>> 
>> Hi Giulio. I'm glad you found those images helpful. There *is* a plan to
>> make more-official images for Fedora 19, and you can see that at
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FirstClassCloudImages. A lot of this
>> is internal infrastructure work, but I'm sure we can find some way to fit in
>> your skills. 
> 
> I like the plan a lot, it looks like the major issue now is the
> integration of imgfac/oz with koji
> 
> I happen to have worked with imgfac and know decently its REST interface
> but, for the scope of this project, can't we just stick to Oz?
> 
> I don't think imgfac would add much to the process while it will instead
> prevent us from passing customized kickstarts to Oz
> 
> this said, I think I could help with koji... who should I ping?
> 
>> You may also be interested in
>> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/cloud-kickstarts.git/tree/generic, which is
>> the source repository for the kickstart files from which the image is
>> generated. Any improvements/suggestions/patches are welcome.
> 
> would it be worth trying some ARM build?
> -- 
> Giulio Fidente
> IRC: giulivo