[CentOS-devel] Providing checksums for our Vagrant images

[Marcin Dulak]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Laurentiu Pancescu <lpancescu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 23/03/17 09:32, Michael Vermaes wrote:
>
>> I think there is still some benefit to maintaining a presence on Atlas
>> if possible, as it is where Vagrant users are likely to search for
>> CentOS boxes first.
>
>
I'm not using cloud.centos.org, but the benefit from atlas is a simplified
handing of URLs and versioning of the boxes,
so in the Vagrantfile one can have:

machine.vm.box = "centos/7"


Marcin


> But hosting the metadata on the CentOS
>> infrastructure makes a lot of sense for the reasons you mentioned. I
>> guess you could maybe leave a final release in Atlas pointing people
>> to the new location when it's available.
>>
>
> It would be great if Atlas would also allow redirects for metadata, not
> just the boxes - not sure if that's possible.  I'm also not sure how many
> users search directly on Atlas for official images released by CentOS,
> instead of Google or our own website.  If we decide to move away from
> Atlas, we should definitely release a last image there, with the
> description pointing people to the new location (ideally, a web page
> dedicated to our Vagrant images).
>
> By the way, from what I can understand from the commit history [1], it
>> looks like the Bento metadata was added for a similar reason, to allow
>> them to consider standing up their own metadata server in place of
>> Atlas.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/chef/bento/pull/387
>>
>
> Thanks, I didn't know that.  But I realized another benefit to hosting our
> own metadata, besides checksums: we could also get statistics on how many
> active users we have, on which host OSes, since Vagrant will download the
> metadata to check if a new image has been released (at least when a box is
> booted).
>
> Laurențiu
>
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