Attention Cloud WG nominees

[Keith Sharp]

On 23 Oct 2013, at 04:19, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Matthew Miller wrote:
>> I've been the defacto maintainer of the Fedora cloud image kickstart
>> for the past year or so (I have commit access, and I use it!), and I
>> think that's gotten into fairly decent shape. This WG will be about
>> going beyond decent and into something that's actually both very useful
>> and well-used. I have some ideas for what that'd look like, but I'd
>> like to hear yours too. And, I'm interested in hearing where you'd like
>> to contribute in specific.
> [...]
>> I posted a few weeks ago about possible directions for the cloud
>> product.
> [...]
>> I've also heard a few comments suggesting that the cloud guest should
>> basically just be the server product in image form, with cloud-init.
>> This is a model where cloud computing is basically seen as providing
>> "servers in the sky"; I think there's a place for that, but again, I
>> don't think it's what we should be aiming at.
> 
> And from the previous emails, the proposals were basically (feel free
> to correct me if I'm wrong):
> 
> 1. Cloud image is the Fedora Server OS, but tailored to run in a virtual
> environment and with cloud-init. (roughly what you do now).
> 
> 2. A lightweight distribution made for running containers on top of.
> Likely would not look much like a normal Fedora Sever, no docs., maybe
> even no rpm/yum, etc. etc.
> 
> 3. Tools to help Fedora users generate their own images, based upon
> either #1 or #2.


One other area that might be of interest is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - in particular the server side components needed to provide a virtual Fedora desktop to a variety of clients: hardware thin clients; desktop software client; tablets, phones, and other mobile clients.

Keith.