Cloud image use cases

[Chris Murphy]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 04:51:15PM +0100, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
>> > provided elsewhere that let you do that already.  Conversely, atomic
>> > is compelling _because_ of the Atomic platform.  Atomic has novelty
>> > (for now), decent technical advantages, and a lot more marketing
>> > behind it.
>> Well, I mean... it's compelling for us because we want people to have
>> Fedora available $all_the_places, right?
>> So having only Atomic means we'd basically be saying if you want to do
>> things in the cloud, either do them the "Atomic way" or use another
>> project, right?
>
> So, another option here is to twist an early decision we made by 90°.
> Switch from Cloud, Server, Workstation to Atomic, Server, and
> Workstation (sorry, branding/design team!). Atomic can run on bare
> metal, and we could start making Fedora Server cloud image and push
> those to Amazon, etc., and this could serve as the generic
> building-block cloud image people want. It'd probably be bigger, but
> that's okay because we'd know _why_. (And I hope with the improvements
> we're making on size in general, it wouldn't be too much bigger.)

It sounds like "atomic" is more of a flavor than a product. There's a
proposal on desktop@ for Atomic Workstation. Is the Server WG
interested in an atomic variant as well?


-- 
Chris Murphy