[cloud-guide] Update the outline for BoxGrinder after today's "Cloudy Docs Sprint"

Jared Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 15 23:50:54 UTC 2011


commit 6253c3e7d14a6b047fd6e6b0ed67530ea4fd4ffe
Author: Jared K. Smith <jsmith at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Thu Sep 15 19:37:30 2011 -0400

    Update the outline for BoxGrinder after today's "Cloudy Docs Sprint"

 en-US/BoxGrinder.xml |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/BoxGrinder.xml b/en-US/BoxGrinder.xml
index 3bf412a..83cd400 100644
--- a/en-US/BoxGrinder.xml
+++ b/en-US/BoxGrinder.xml
@@ -5,15 +5,36 @@
 ]>
 <section id="sect-cloud-guide-BoxGrinder">
         <title>BoxGrinder</title>
-	<para><package>BoxGrinder</package> creates appliances (virtual machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms. There are effectively three types of transactions that BoxGrinder performs. The first is to create an operating system image (or in BoxGrinder terminology, build). The second operation is to convert the image to the target hypervisor. E.g. this takes the raw disk image and converts it to an EC2 AMI, a XenServer VHD, or qemu QCOW2 file. The final operation is to push the freshly converted image to the destination hypervisor or cloud platform.</para>
+	<para><package>BoxGrinder</package> creates appliances (virtual machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms. There are effectively three types of transactions that BoxGrinder performs. The first is to create an operating system image (or in BoxGrinder terminology, a build). The second operation is to convert the image to the target hypervisor. For example, this takes the raw disk image (created in the earlier step) and converts it to an EC2 AMI, a XenServer VHD, or qemu QCOW2 file. The final operation is to push the freshly converted image to the destination hypervisor or cloud platform.</para>
+	<para>This section is intended to give you a brief introduction to BoxGrinder.  More details and tutorials are available online<footnote><para>The BoxGrinder website is located at <ulink url="http://boxgrinder.org/"/>, and tutorials are available at <ulink url="http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials"/></para></footnote>.</para>
 	<section id="sect-cloud-guide-BoxGrinder-install">
 		<title>Installing BoxGrinder</title>
-		<para>Installation of Boxgrinder is quite easy using yum.</para>
+		<para>Installation of BoxGrinder is quite easy using <application>yum</application>.</para>
 		<para><screen><command>yum install rubygem-boxgrinder-build</command></screen></para>
 	</section>
 	<section id="sect-cloud-guide-BoxGrinder-firstimage">
-		<title>Building your first image</title>
-			<para>Images built by BoxGrinder are generally done via an appliance definition file, though BoxGrinder also supports kickstart files. Below is a very simple appliance file that installs Fe Below is a very simple appliance file that installs Fedora 15. </para>
+		<title>Using BoxGrinder to Create a Fedora Image</title>
+			<para>Images built by BoxGrinder are generally done via an appliance definition file, though BoxGrinder also supports kickstart files. Below is a very simple appliance file that installs Fedora 15. </para>
 			<para>Building the image now that you have a definition file is quite easy.</para>
 	</section>
+	<section id="sect-cloud-guide-BoxGrinder-ec2instance">
+		<title>Using BoxGrinder to Create a Fedora Instance on Amazon EC2</title>
+		<para/>
+	</section>
+	<section id="sect-cloud-guide-BoxGrinder-plugins">
+		<title>BoxGrinder Plugins and Platforms</title>
+		<para/>
+		<section>
+			<title>OS plugins</title>
+			<para/>
+		</section>
+		<section>
+			<title>Platform plugins</title>
+			<para/>
+		</section>
+		<section>
+			<title>Delivery platforms</title>
+			<para/>
+		</section>
+	</section>
 </section>


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