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

[Sandro "red" Mathys]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Sam Kottler <skottler at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

+1 on everything Sam said. cloud-init isn't great but it's probably
the best universal approach out there and should be universally used
as such. Also, the (non-Fedora-specific) cloud user community has
grown accustomed to it by now.

>>
>> What do we think?
>>
>>
>
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