I like cloud-init as well, but it sounds to me that we are hurting the investment of existing CloudStack users who have built hundreds of templates with the extant scripts.
On 2/4/13 10:51 AM, "Ahmad Emneina" <aemne...@gmail.com> wrote: >+1 cloud-init is the way to go IMO. It's also supported as long as the vm >can query its respective virtual router/dhcp server, since thats where >cloudstack places the user/meta data. > > >On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > >> On 02/03/2013 12:44 PM, David Nalley wrote: >> >>> Hi folks: >>> >>> One of the discussions that came up while we were in Ghent was whether >>> or not to package the SSH key reset and password reset utilities, or >>> whether we should focus our PW/SSH efforts on cloud-init. >>> >>> The points for consideration are essentially: >>> >>> * If we begin packaging them, they will be expected to be maintained >>> over the long term - are we as a project ready to do that? >>> * Do we keep the scripts in the repo, or perhaps consider adding a >>> separate repo for the scripts themselves. (This would make it easier >>> for distribution packagers to consume - and even if they don't wish to >>> package all of CloudStack - packaging the scripts themselves would be >>> substantially easier. >>> * cloud-init has CloudStack support IIRC, does it make sense to adopt >>> that rather than doing our own thing, or perhaps to elect one as the >>> primary method. >>> >>> >> +1 cloud-init >> >> We want CloudStack to be accepted by more and more users and they >>probably >> want to use cloud-init. >> >> cloud-init has cool Puppet and Chef plugins as well which make it very >> easy to get it all up and running. >> >> Do we have full cloud-init support yet? Are we able to pass "User Data" >>to >> a VM? >> >> I think it would be wise to support cloud-init and do not use our own >> custom, homegrown scripts. >> >> This makes it also easier for companies to make templates which work on >> OpenStack and CloudStack. Interoperability! >> >> Wido >>
