More information on Cloud spins

[Amit Saha]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro \"red\" Mathys" <red at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 10:30:36 PM
> Subject: Re: More information on Cloud spins
> 
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Amit Saha <asaha at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I happened to come across a ticket that aims to create cloud images for
> > spins. I haven't
> > followed any discussion at all on that. Where can I learn more about this?
> > Basically,
> > I am interested to see if a stripped down version of Fedora Scientific can
> > be offered
> > as a cloud image as well.
> 
> Not sure what ticket you are referring to. I don't think we have any
> plans to convert any spin into a cloud image. I doubt it would make
> any sense for any of the images. I see how you come to think creating
> a scientific spin image would be a good thing - many of the tools are
> often used in the cloud by scientific researchers (I did cloud at a
> technical university, so I know they do for sure). BUT, we want to
> keep cloud images small and highly tailored, and therefore a generic
> scientific image would just not work. It would need to be tailored for
> one specific usage. So for those scientific use cases (minus big data,
> for which we'll have an image), we're just going to recommend the base
> image. People can either modify that image by adding more software
> themselves before uploading it to their cloud or launch it as-is and
> install the necessary software afterwards.
> 
> If you think one or two highly tailored images would make sense, bring
> up your use case (and be ready to work on it / do all the work) and
> we're happy to consider it. Personally, I could imagine a R image but
> not sure it's worth the effort - the base image is seriously easily
> turned into a R image by end users.
> 
> Oh, and the ticket you've seen - maybe that's been about the cloud
> images having to follow the spin process. That has nothing to do with
> the existing spins.

Thanks for the explanation, Sandro. Yes, indeed that is the ticket which made
me think that the specialized desktop spins were being considered in any way
for the cloud images. I can see how that is a problem. 

I would think a cloud image with all the Python scientific tools would be a good
offering. Not sure if anyone else think the same.