On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 17:29 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi Guys,
As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private clouds ) - it would be great to have a baseline package manifest worked out.
What / how many images should we build. At this time we were thinking of doing :
CentOS-5 32bit minimal
CentOS-6 32bit minimal
CentOS-5 64bit minimal
CentOS-6 64bit minimal
CentOS-5 64bit LAMP
CentOS-6 64bit LAMP
What would be the minimal functional requirements people would expect from these images ? and what rpms should be installed ? Should root login be enabled or should we require people to go in via a 'centos' user. Should the image be self-updating, or should we have a post-login message that indicates outstanding updates ?
Are you using existing RPMs or creating new ones with stripped dependencies?
What advantages will these images have over a kickstart install from a local repo?