Excerpts from Mike Spreitzer's message of 2014-04-15 14:59:50 -0700: > Clint Byrum <cl...@fewbar.com> wrote on 04/15/2014 05:17:21 PM: > > > Excerpts from Zane Bitter's message of 2014-04-15 13:32:30 -0700: > > > > Yes, that _kind_ of thing. But I don't see much point in having an > > > AWS::CloudFormation::Init section that isn't compatible with > > > CloudFormation's definition of it. We already have some native > > > in-instance tools (e.g. os-apply-config) that can probably handle this > > > > better. > > > > > > > os-apply-config wouldn't really be what you want. It is specifically > > only intended for translating communication values into configuration. > > Package installation is not handled. > > > > We don't have a native declarative post-boot package installation > > tool that can be expressed this way. If you must do vanilla images + > > customization, I think cfn-init is generally fine. This particular case, > > however, shows a place where they abused the mapping json type pretty > > badly. I think it would make sense to have a native OS::Heat::Init > > section that takes the package name as a value or something. > > > > > FWIW, in the short term I'm not aware of any issue with installing > > > mariadb in Fedora 17/18, provided that mysql is not installed first. > And > > > in fact they're both EOL anyway, so we should probably migrate all the > > > > templates to Fedora 20 and mariadb. > > > > +1 for that. > > I count 22 templates in heat-templates that are written to support Fedora, > Ubuntu, and RHEL; is MariaDB available in those? I do not see it in > Ubuntu 12.10, for example. >
No, MariaDB might be in Ubuntu 14.04.. haven't checked, but mysql is still the recommended one. > Those templates support ubuntu 10. Just 10! It will probably be easiest > to add Ubuntu 12 (as in 12.04 LTS) and 14 (as in 14.04 LTS). > Ubuntu 10.04 has just 1 year of support left. Time to start migrating! :) > Yes, I can see how OS::Heat::Init makes sense. But is this just the first > thing on a long list? Would it be better to have a static intrinsic that > is like Python's dict(iterable of iterable)->dictionary function? > Yes I don't know what the python thing you're referring to is. Yes, it is the first in the list of things we'd change while creating a native format. Though another option is to just adopt external tools like puppet/chef/salt to do this. We creates os-*-config in TripleO so we didn't have to pick a religion and so that we could do "the unix way" and make tools that only do one thing. However, for template examples, it might be a little easier to accept one religion, er, tool, in one template, and another tool in a different template. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
