[CentOS-devel] cloud-init in CentOS

Mon May 5 17:32:55 UTC 2014
Sam Kottler <s at shk.io>

On 5/5/14, 11:31 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
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> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Sam Kottler <s at shk.io
> <mailto:s at shk.io>> wrote:
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> > 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> 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.
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> 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!

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> ...Juerg
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> > Thoughts, questions, concerns?
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