On 10/03/2012 06:29 PM, 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 ?
Have you considered equipping these with cloud-init? While i don't have any practical experience with myself yet it should allow to build a minimal image yet allow the creation cutomized flavors for users.
The problem I see is that the moment you include say vim-enhanced instead of emacs or postfix instead of sendmail you'll get into a political fight.
The only way I see is to make the minimal images truly as minimal as possible and then allow people to pull in stuff using cloud-init (or alternative mechanisms).
Regards, Dennis