[CentOS-devel] cloud-init in CentOS

[Juerg Haefliger]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Sam Kottler <s at shk.io> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/6/14, 2:27 PM, Shake Chen wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Sam Kottler <s at shk.io
> > <mailto:s at shk.io>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     On 5/6/14, 8:10 AM, Shake Chen wrote:
> >     > Hi
> >     >
> >     > Now the image whether support resize?
> >     >
> >     > CentOS can provide rpm
> >     > for https://github.com/flegmatik/linux-rootfs-resize?
> >
> >     How is it different from cloud-initramfs-tools? If you're
> >     interested in
> >     having included a repo, it seems like EPEL is the right place.
> >
> > have same feature with cloud-initramfs-tools, let image can been resize.
> >
> > now cloud-initramfs-tools only in Fedora, I hope can include in EPEL
repo.
>
> Nope, it's also included in EPEL 6 [1]. It's not available for EL5 via
> EPEL, though.

That's because there's no easy way to customize an initrd in CentOS/RHEL5.
And nobody asked for it yet :-)

...Juerg


>
> 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/cloud-initramfs-tools
> >
> > I think the cloud image need include Cloud-init，cloud-utils and
> > cloud-initramfs-tools.
> >
> >
> >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Sam Kottler <s at shk.io
> >     <mailto:s at shk.io>
> >     > <mailto:s at shk.io <mailto:s at shk.io>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On 5/5/14, 11:31 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> >     > >
> >     > >
> >     > >
> >     > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Sam Kottler <s at shk.io
> >     <mailto:s at shk.io>
> >     > <mailto:s at shk.io <mailto:s at shk.io>>
> >     > > <mailto:s at shk.io <mailto:s at shk.io> <mailto:s at shk.io
> >     <mailto:s at shk.io>>>> wrote:
> >     > > >
> >     > > > During the cloud instance SIG meeting today we talked about
> >     > future plans
> >     > > > for cloud-init in CentOS. Right now cloud-init is included as
> >     > part of
> >     > > > EPEL and that's where most CentOS users consume it from. The
> >     > problem is
> >     > > > that cloud-init and related bits are critical for building
> >     > images to run
> >     > > > on a public or private cloud, and we need to build early guest
> >     > > > initialization tools into the cloud images we produce. Ideally
> >     > this does
> >     > > > not include adding EPEL or packages from EPEL which have not
> >     been
> >     > > > rebuilt in our build systems.
> >     > > >
> >     > > > So, the proposal that there's general consensus upon within
> >     > the SIG is
> >     > > > to maintain cloud-init, its dependencies, and any related
> >     > packages on
> >     > > > git.centos.org <http://git.centos.org>
> >     <http://git.centos.org> <http://git.centos.org>
> >     > and rebuild them ourselves.
> >     > > I'm one of the maintainers in
> >     > > > EPEL so I offered to maintain the git repos for CentOS, anyone
> >     > else who
> >     > > > would like to be involved in more than welcome to step up.
> >     > >
> >     > > I'm the EPEL maintainer of cloud-utils and
> >     cloud-initramfs-tools and
> >     > > I'm willing to maintain those packages and their dependencies
for
> >     > > CentOS with the goal to keep them in sync.
> >     >
> >     > Awesome, thanks!
> >     >
> >     > >
> >     > > ...Juerg
> >     > >
> >     > > > Thoughts, questions, concerns?
> >     > > >
> >     > > > -s
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