GCE - cloud init, or google-daemon/google-startup-scripts

[Sam Kottler]

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?
> 
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