I think we always expected other distros to be allowed, we just went with ubuntu/debian in the beginning bc most of us were comfortable with it. It would be nice to also get an image working with a micro version of "Company X" distro, if thats available. I'd gladly accept taht as the default image if it was the first. On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 10:35 -0600, Doug Wiegley wrote: > > On Jun 29, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrac...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On 29 Jun 2016, at 18:10, Doug Wiegley <doug...@parksidesoftware.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> Interesting discussion, but the first question I’d ask is ‘why’ ? > >> > >> Unlike openstack server software, the amphora are meant to be black box > >> appliance images, so why do we want to run different distros on them? Is > >> there a deployment scenario you’re concerned with, or other use case? > > > > Because vendors want to keep control for the contents of the image. For > > one, Company X may not be particularly happy about shipping and supporting > > Ubuntu based images through its channels. And without it, there is no > > end-to-end support story for load balancers that the company could sell to > > its customers. The company may also want to specialize the image contents > > in some way, f.e. inject additional vendor specific security mechanisms, or > > ship a new better version of haproxy. > > > > I believe it’s self evident, but for completeness: Company X engineers > > would not support Ubuntu bits because 1. they don’t have expertise in > > Ubuntu. 2. it would give a really twisted message to customers. > > Fair enough, and that’s the reply that I was expecting. So either we make the > amphora driver distro aware, or multiple amphora drivers/images. I presume > that “company x” is willing to devote resources to this? > > Thanks, > doug > > > > > Ihar > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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