Attention Cloud WG nominees

[Fabian Deutsch]

Am Dienstag, den 22.10.2013, 23:19 -0400 schrieb James Antill:
> 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.

Hey,
I just wanted to quickly point out oVirt Node here [0] which is
currently a "tiny" image which actually does this: Just run containers
(in this case qemu instances, but probably extendable to other
containers too).
Our concept is different - we provide Node as an image (like a firmware)
and not package based - like a server. We are currently consuming Fedora
and CentOS packages to build those "Hypervisor" images.

I'd be happy to join in here, because it feels like Node doesn't fit
into the Server group.

Greetings
fabian

[0] http://ovirt.org/wiki/Node

> 3. Tools to help Fedora users generate their own images, based upon
> either #1 or #2.
> 
> ...I was mostly assuming I could help with #2, and maybe #3, but
> probably not as much with #1 (at least atm.).
> 
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