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

Frankie Onuonga frankie.onuonga at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 13:20:38 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Sandro "red" Mathys
<red at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> 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.
>
+1 is all I have to say here. This is exactly what I think.
I will however give the Google tools a shot and see what next.

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