tools for building cloud images in the buildsystem

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Matthew Miller wrote:

> Background: appliance-creator, as part of Thincrust, isn't really maintained
> anymore. It'd be nice to switch to something else. There's two main options
> that I can see:
>
> 1. ami-creator, as maintained by the Eucalyptus project. This basically
>   works the same way as the appliance-creator but is maintained.
>
> 2. livemedia-creator. This does a "real" install, using anaconda inside a
>   VM.
>
> The second has the obvious disadvantage of needing to launch a VM. Richard
> Jones suggest that running under fully-emulated qemu layered in a VM builder
> might not be so bad because we'll be io-bound anyway.
>
> It has the advantage of doing exactly what anaconda does, which will make it
> easier to track the standard Fedora install. We'd also be less insulated
> from possible breakage due to anaconda development, which from an overall
> point of view is both good and bad.
>
> In any case, I'd like to start running an image creation task automatically
> nightly if possible.
>
> What do the people actually running the builders think about this?
>

Dumb question time - for building an image using ami-creator you just need 
fast access to the just-built/koji repos an instance to run ami-creator on 
and a place to store the results....

Why don't  we spin up a persistent euca instance, give you some disk space 
and a cron job. You can just run ami-creator w/a sensible kickstart...

Trivial and disposable.

-sv