Re: [gentoo-dev] Openstack image availability

[Daniel]

I thought I would point out a few things

1) Did you happen to see this guys step by step instructions for creating a
cloud image:
http://terrarum.net/blog/creating-a-gentoo-cloud-image.html

I basically followed these instructions a year or so ago, and with a few
tweaks was able to get Gentoo running on OpenStack.

2) I have extensive knowledge of OpenStack, it's been my profession for the
past 2 years, so if you need any assistance, let me know.

There are automated platforms such as Fuel by Mirantis that can help people
deploy OpenStack on a virtual environment in case anyone wanted to try it
out.  Also DevStack is another common platform people use to test with.

Just throwing my 2 cents into the conversation

- Daniel

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
wrote:

> On 06/08/2015 01:38 PM, wireless@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> > On 06/08/2015 10:30 AM, Matthew Thode wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've just started generation of Gentoo Openstack images.  Right now it
> >> is just a basic amd64 image, but I plan on adding nomultilib and
> >> hardened variants (for a total of at least 4 images).  I plan on
> >> generating these images at least weekly.
> >>
> >> These images are not yet sanctioned by our infra team, but I plan on
> >> remedying that (being a member of said team should help).
> >>
> >> I am currently using the scripts at
> >> https://github.com/prometheanfire/gentoo-cloud-prep to generate the
> >> images (based on a heavily modified version of Matt Vandermeulen's
> >> scripts).  If you have any issues please submit bugs there or contact me
> >> on irc (prometheanfire on freenode).
> >>
> >> Here's the link to the images, I'm currently gpg signing them with the
> >> same key I use to sign this email (offline master key smartcard setup
> >> for security minded folk).
> >>
> >> http://23.253.251.73/
> >>
> >> Let me know if you have questions,
> >>
> >
> >
> > OK, So to test the images, just burn a dvd/usbstick and run it like a
> > liveDVD? I did not see instructions or brief guidance; I'm noob with
> > openstack but curious to see how she performs......
> >
> >
> > Long term, will we get an openstack-meta (testing) out of this in
> > portage, or should I just dedicated an old dual core amd64 box for image
> > testing?
> >
> > I'm  building up (from 100%  sources) a mesos cluster offering
> > with cephfs, Apache-spark, Apache-storm and tachyon. It'd be great to
> > run some tests of codes on openstack (running on local hardware) and
> > then test the same hardware running Apache-mesos. So any suggestions you
> > have on that (so the comparisons are as similar as possible, including
> > recommended test codes) would be of keen interest to me.
> >
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
> This is an image to deploy on top of Openstack.  While you can deploy
> Openstack on the image, it isn't made for that purpose.
>
> Something like this is needed to import it into glance.
>
> glance image-create --name gentoo-20150608 --disk-format qcow2
> --container-format bare --is-public True --min-disk 5 --min-ram 512
> --file gentoo-amd64-multilib_2015-06-08.qcow2 --progress
>
>
> --
> Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
>
>