[CentOS-devel] cloud-init in CentOS

Wed May 7 07:12:05 UTC 2014

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Shake Chen <shake.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I check the EPEL 6 and can not find the cloud-initramfs-tools in
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/

cloud-initramfs-tools is the name of the source RPM. The binary
(subpackage) is called dracut-modules-growroot.

...Juerg

>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Juerg Haefliger <juergh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
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>> 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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