+1 SuSE has SuSE Studio which will build appliances for cloud and it is RPM based distro. It would be nice to see Cloudstack as default cloud management in SuSE.
Thanks Rajesh Battala -----Original Message----- From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:12 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Getting CloudStack into the linux distros? On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > On 01/10/2013 03:07 PM, Chip Childers wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Since packaging is a theme yet again (and we seem to be headed in a >> direction that is useful for a distro packager), I wanted to raise >> the idea of trying to work with various Linux distros to get >> CloudStack into their official package repos. I see the 4.1.0 >> release as being the ideal release >> >> I know that we have had various packagers represented on this list on >> and off, and I suspect that there are quite a few lurkers hanging >> around. >> >> My question to the community is: does it make sense for the Apache >> CloudStack community to reach out to various linux disto communities >> and see if they would be willing to include the software (as well as >> offer packaging help if needed)? >> >> My questions to folks that might be on this list representing >> different distros: Are you interested? If so, how can we work with >> your community most effectively? Last, CloudStack is obviously still >> a podling (and our release numbers still reflect "-incubating"). Is >> our graduation a prerequisite in your opinion? >> >> Thanks! >> > > I'm honestly not sure if CloudStack is something that we want in a > distribution. > > Yes, I know that Ubuntu fully adopted OpenStack and you can very > easily deploy OpenStack nodes now. > > But thinking about the extra work it would bring to the project by > keeping all the packages synced. If we find a critical bug it's a lot > of work to get that all synced with the distros. > > If you really want to run a cloud, how hard is it to add a repo to > your Apt/Yum configuration? > > Wido That's a fair argument. Not personally knowing what the CloudStack release to potential distro release cycle would look like, I'd like to hear more about that from others (or yourself ;-) ). To me, the positive side of this is the potential to grow our user-base and get more interest from distro developers in helping on the project. -chip
