tools for building cloud images in the buildsystem

[Andy Grimm]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> 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.

To be fair, the original maintainer, Jeremy Katz, is actually picking
up the ami-creator project again.  He's taken a few of my patches, and
Eucalyptus will probably start using his version soon.  We'll be
contributors, but he's the maintainer.  :)

Andy

> 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?
>
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