On 12/17/2014 06:21 AM, Viktor Petersson wrote:
Hey guys,
I had a conversation with Jim Perrin and Karanbir Singh about this and it should be relatively trivial. However, Jim suggested that we moved the discussion here.
Here is the status today:
- The CloudSigma provider for CloudInit is complete and is maintained by
Canonical[1] and is included in (12.04 and forward)
- Jim wrote a patch (attached). It isn't complete, but it is a start.
Indeed. All my patch did was to sync the upstream DataSourceCloudSigma.py file to what was currently in our cloud-init package.
- There is also a port to CoreOS (re-written in Go) [2]
- Since I didn't write the code, I don't know of the exact workflow, but I
think these are the relevant files: ** cloudinit/cs_utils.py ** cloudinit/sources/DataSourceCloudSigma.py ** tests/unittests/test_datasource/test_cloudsigma.py
I'm involved with CloudSigma, and I'd be happy to sponsor anyone willing to take on the task of porting this with resources at CloudSigma for testing. Unfortunately, I don't have any internal resources to allocate towards this at this point, but I know that we have plenty of customers running CentOS that would love to see this happen.
I'd also be happy with answering any questions and help with the QA of this.
The only part of this that seems unusual to me is the reliance on an external application (dmidecode) which we currently don't ship in the the cloud images. I freely admit to not being overly 'cloudy' so I'll happily defer judgment to others in the community.