<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Laurentiu Pancescu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpancescu@gmail.com" target="_blank">lpancescu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On 23/03/17 09:32, Michael Vermaes wrote:<br>
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I think there is still some benefit to maintaining a presence on Atlas<br>
if possible, as it is where Vagrant users are likely to search for<br>
CentOS boxes first.</blockquote></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not using <a href="http://cloud.centos.org">cloud.centos.org</a>, but the benefit from atlas is a simplified handing of URLs and versioning of the boxes,</div><div>so in the Vagrantfile one can have:</div><div><br></div><div>machine.vm.box = "centos/7"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Marcin</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> But hosting the metadata on the CentOS<br>
infrastructure makes a lot of sense for the reasons you mentioned. I<br>
guess you could maybe leave a final release in Atlas pointing people<br>
to the new location when it's available.<br>
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It would be great if Atlas would also allow redirects for metadata, not just the boxes - not sure if that's possible. I'm also not sure how many users search directly on Atlas for official images released by CentOS, instead of Google or our own website. If we decide to move away from Atlas, we should definitely release a last image there, with the description pointing people to the new location (ideally, a web page dedicated to our Vagrant images).<span class="gmail-"><br>
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By the way, from what I can understand from the commit history [1], it<br>
looks like the Bento metadata was added for a similar reason, to allow<br>
them to consider standing up their own metadata server in place of<br>
Atlas.<br>
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[1] <a href="https://github.com/chef/bento/pull/387" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/chef/bento/<wbr>pull/387</a><br>
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Thanks, I didn't know that. But I realized another benefit to hosting our own metadata, besides checksums: we could also get statistics on how many active users we have, on which host OSes, since Vagrant will download the metadata to check if a new image has been released (at least when a box is booted).<br>
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Laurențiu<div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><br>
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