Cloud image use cases

[Ryan Brown]

On 07/10/2015 10:03 AM, Haïkel wrote:
> 2015-07-10 15:59 GMT+02:00 Ryan Brown <rybrown at redhat.com 
> <mailto:rybrown at redhat.com>>:
> 
> On 07/10/2015 09:48 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 07:52:29AM -0500, Major Hayden wrote:
>>> Whenever I've spoken with customers about what they want from an
>>> OS in a virtual machine, they want it to contain a small package
>>> set that lets them run their automation on top of it (i.e.
>>> Ansible, Chef, Puppet). Removing Python from that image would be
>>> a serious curveball since most people expect to have Python
>>> available on any system running yum/dnf.
>> 
>> Yeah, I'm willing to back down on wanting to remove Python.
> 
> +1 It'd be a lot of work (rewriting dnf/whatever, maintaining both 
> codebases, etc) for (relatively) little gain. Depends: for end-users,
> it could mean a smaller bill each month on storage.

Yes, but the engineer-hours to make that transition might better spent
making the cloud image (or our docs, or whatever) awesome in other ways.

> But I agree that we're not ready to drop python and it's *unlikely* 
> before a long time. I also agree that it shouldn't be a high/medium
> priority task.
> 
> As for dnf, there are discussion upstream to rewrite it in C, VMWare
> has also written a drop-in replacement for dnf based on
> hawkey/librepo that could be considered.
> 
> The more problematic component is cloud-init.

Indeed. CoreOS has a sorta-ish-done cloud-init written in go, but it's
nowhere near feature complete last I checked.

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Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.