hi guys, I've been going round in circles trying to workout the best way to handle vendor agnostic images and in the interest of sanity and actually getting something out of the door - it looks like the best pln is to get the vendor specific requirements and push images with them ( and suitability marked ) With that in mind, AWS is a good target to start with. Do people have opinions on : - root or ec2-user for login ? - cloud-init ( we can use the one from EPEL, it needs a few things sorted, but that should not be too hard ) - selinux as enabled, with a hook in user-data that allows people to set permissive mode at time of instance creation For step1, I was thinking it would be best to just have c5/6 32/64bit minimal images ( using the pygrub AKI ) and make them available on instance-backed as well as EBS backed. Finally, would appreciate having some people help test the images privately before we start pushing publicly - if anyone can help with that, please get in touch with me at kbsingh@ project domain or the domain this email came from. Thanks, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc