Fedora @ Google Cloud

[Vaidas Jablonskis]

I guess best would be to package google tools first if we want them to be
shipped with fedora gce image.

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Vaidas
On 18 Jun 2014 21:20, "Filipe Brandenburger" <filbranden at google.com> wrote:

> Hi Renich,
>
> I'd like to volunteer with this project of building an official Fedora
> image for GCE.
>
> Right now I have an image that I use for myself, I built it using
> appliance-creator and started with Vaidas' kickstarts, but I replaced
> cloud-init with the Google packages you mention below.
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Renich Bon Ciric
> <renich at woralelandia.com> wrote:
> > I wonder about the services:
> > https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages
> >
> > These are used for different purposes:
> > - Google API connection
> > - User creation/deletion
> > - HHD live mounting/unmounting
> > - SSH Key CRUD
> > - etc.
>
> So I like the idea of using cloud-init but the problem is that it
> doesn't give us the same integrations with tools like gcutil (e.g.
> gcutil ssh <cloud-host> does not work since it expects an user account
> with your name instead of "fedora", the Google packages will also
> manage user accounts and SSH keys after the VM is up.) I built the
> packages from the GitHub sources (I wrote a small specfile for them),
> the 1.1.3 release is not enough for Fedora 20 since it doesn't have
> systemd support, but trunk head does have support, so 1.1.4 should be
> enough when it gets released. I'd be willing to become a package
> maintainer for Fedora packages for these GCE tools. Should I submit
> builds for these packages (more specifically, google-compute-daemon,
> google-startup-scripts and gcimagebundle)? Or is someone else already
> planning to do that?
>
> There was also the DHCP issue mentioned earlier. I contributed a patch
> for that bug that was already released in Fedora 20. My last test
> image build didn't have to include a custom dhclient anymore, so
> that's good news!
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-7468/dhcp-4.2.6-5.fc20
>
> Let me know how I could help, I'd really like to get involved and help
> to get an official Fedora image in GCE.
>
> Cheers!
> Filipe
>
>
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> GCE. My contributions here are mainly as a Fedora enthusiast and
> volunteer. My involvement does not imply official support by Google.
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