[CentOS-devel] cloud-init in CentOS

Mon May 5 17:28:21 UTC 2014
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On 05.05.2014 18:24, Sam Kottler 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 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.
> 
> Thoughts, questions, concerns?

Thanks Sam. I guess the main concern for me is - as a lot of people are 
using EPEL - to make sure the version is EPEL is in some kind of sync, 
or at least if higher version that it won't mess up stuff.

Lucian

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