[CentOS-devel] Port CloudSigma to CentOS's CloudInit

[Jim Perrin]

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.


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