BTW, if anyone has some concrete ideas/questions re Cloudstack and CentOS, please come forth so we can mention them during the meeting.
Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> > To: "sebgoa" <run...@gmail.com> > Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org, "Paul Angus" <paul.an...@shapeblue.com> > Sent: Thursday, 2 April, 2015 09:08:57 > Subject: Re: CentOS Cloud SIG effort > Sure, I'll do my best to attend. > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "sebgoa" <run...@gmail.com> >> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org, "Paul Angus" <paul.an...@shapeblue.com>, >> "Nux!" >> <n...@li.nux.ro> >> Sent: Thursday, 2 April, 2015 07:54:13 >> Subject: Re: CentOS Cloud SIG effort > >> All, and specially Paul and Nux, >> >> Any chance you can join this meeting, and see what we need to do on the >> CentOS >> front ? >> >> On Apr 1, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 03/27/2015 04:41 AM, Sebastien Goasguen wrote: >>>>> >On Mar 26, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Rich Bowen<rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> >A while back I mentioned to some folks (I think it was this list, but it >>>>> >may >>>>> >have been a subset) that the CentOS community is working on a Cloud SIG >>>>> >(Special Interest Group) effort. You can read a little about it >>>>> >athttp://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud >>>>> > >>>>> >The idea is to ensure that cloud infrastructure software, like >>>>> >CloudStack, >>>>> >OpenStack, Open Nebula, and Eucalyptus, works solidly on CentOS, has all >>>>> >of the >>>>> >prerequisite packages available, gets CI on the CentOS platform, and so >>>>> >on. >>>>> > >>>>> >At the moment, this is*only* OpenStack, with the other projects >>>>> >unrepresented. >>>>> > >>>>> >If you are interested in adoption of CloudStack on CentOS (and, by side >>>>> >effect, >>>>> >on Red Hat Enterprise Linux), we'd love to have your participation in >>>>> >this >>>>> >effort. >>>>> > >>>> Hi Rich, thanks for the ping again. >>>> >>>> We have been in touch with KB (Nux! and I mostly) and submitted our >>>> scripts for >>>> building a cloudstack centOS templates upstream. It works and was merged at >>>> some point, but it got pulled back because we stick some scripts in there. >>>> >>>> Bottom line is that I feel we need to work further upstream in cloud-init >>>> to >>>> improve cloudstack support there, once that’s done, we can come back to the >>>> CentOS builds for cloudstack. >>>> >>>> fwiw, our install base is probably ~70% centOS and we already have centOS7 >>>> support. >>> >>> In the OpenStack world, we see CentOS as a great way to get the message out >>> about OpenStack. Wearing my ASF hat, I'd really like to see the same >>> vehicle be >>> used to get the word out about CloudStack. CentOS goes to a lot of events, >>> and >>> many of them are ones that CloudStack isn't at. I'd love to see the Cloud >>> SIG >>> be a way to get the word about CloudStack into audiences that typically only >>> ever hear about OpenStack. (Yes, I have split loyalties here, and that's >>> fine.) >>> >>> Anyways, a reminder that we will be having this meeting on #centos-devel at >>> 15:00 UTC *tomorrow*, and it would be awesome to at least have some >>> representation from the CloudStack community there to ask the right >>> questions >>> and see what we can do, on the CentOS side, to fix these cloud-init problems >>> and bring CloudStack some more of the CentOS spotlight. Or even just show >>> up so >>> that folks can meet you and we can figure out if there's anything we can do >>> to >>> help one another. >>> >>> --Rich >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > > > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
