On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:00 AM, David Nalley david@gnsa.us wrote:
I personally don't see a huge benefit from just using the CentOS yum repos. Yum repos are effectively a commodity; and you aren't getting away from reading documentation to get going regardless of platform, so enabling a CentOS-hosted repo over a CloudStack-hosted repo doesn't really gain me much.
Yes, I've always thought that once you get to the point of having a live network connection, a VM should be indistinguishable from hardware and managed the same way from the OS perspective. Maybe the images could be minimal but pre-seeded with puppet/chef/salt agents and the rest of the special-purpose tooling can be a recipe/state that tells yum to install a list of packages and tweaks the configs if needed. The salt-minion is able to run standalone if desired/necessary so that might be a starting point for more complicated setups in a way that would work across different cloud infrastructures as well as standalone hardware.