On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Personally, I hate images. Provisioning from fresh is easy enough, fast > enough and manageable enough that images are almost always either the > wrong solution or a by-product requirement from a third party tool that > does not understand provisioning ( hello, all those so-called-cloud > solutions .. ) In time trials at PMman, we can deploy a minimal CentOS 5 or 6 base image in under three minutes from a standing start, already configured with local update archive addon, the needed LVM details, the needed network config settings, and all the rest; doing the same with anaconda and puppet takes about 15 minutes There _are_ reasons for thoughtfully designed deployable 'stock' images -- Russ herrold