Le 3/15/13 8:13 AM, Andreas Tille a écrit : > Hi, > > any volunteer to join this effort to create such images featuring > med-cloud packages? What would be a med-cloud image ? (but an image containing med-cloud packages)
I would gladly help such thing with debian-cloud team when debian-cloud team have procedures to build such images. For raw/qcow2/ovh, it can be quite easy to build (you can transform between each other). Difficulty is more related to EC2 and specific setups per cloud. Olivier > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:28:07 +0800 > From: Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> > To: Debian Developers <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Availability of Debian official cloud images from debian.org > > Hi, > > Multiple times, in the [email protected], we've came to the conclusion > that Debian should be release images of the stable release (and probably > testing as well) to be run in the cloud. I'm bringing this topic to > -devel, as I'm convince it is a topic which should be debated with > everyone in Debian. > > There is enough software in Debian itself which can support such images: > - Openstack > - Eucalyptus > - XCP > - etc. > > Currently, we have semi-official images which, thanks to the nice work > of the people in [email protected], are uploaded to both AWS > and Azure. While it's nice that we have these, and while I believe such > initiatives should be encouraged and generalize to other hosting > providers, it is now clear that we need a channel to be able to provide > Debian cloud images. > > Please have a look to what they do at Ubuntu: > https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/ > > and more specifically, when you click on one of them: > https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/ > > they provide both the images for all Ubuntu releases. Also, please > notice that there are multiple format available: > - .ovf, which is an open format > - disk1.img qcow2 format: can be uploaded to Openstack, or booted > directly using kvm, and many more > - .img, +kernel and ramdisk: can be used on EC2, Eucalyptus, or Openstack > > Plus there are "links" to EC2 so that you can just launch such > instances. [in debian.org, we should allow anyone to add information > about Debian images in any company though, and not focus only on one > major vendor, otherwise it is anti-competitive] > > So, put in simple words: we need something like this. Question is, where > can this be uploaded? To me, cdimage.debian.org seem to be the natural > place. Does it make sense to everyone else? Could we, in a near future, > imagine having these images creation, included in the official release > build process, together with the CDs, DVDs, etc.? > > Cheers, > > Thomas > > > > -- > gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) > Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
