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From: Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Openstack image availability
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:58:14
Message-Id: 5575D750.2010502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Openstack image availability by wireless@tampabay.rr.com
1 On 06/08/2015 01:38 PM, wireless@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > On 06/08/2015 10:30 AM, Matthew Thode wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> I've just started generation of Gentoo Openstack images. Right now it
6 >> is just a basic amd64 image, but I plan on adding nomultilib and
7 >> hardened variants (for a total of at least 4 images). I plan on
8 >> generating these images at least weekly.
9 >>
10 >> These images are not yet sanctioned by our infra team, but I plan on
11 >> remedying that (being a member of said team should help).
12 >>
13 >> I am currently using the scripts at
14 >> https://github.com/prometheanfire/gentoo-cloud-prep to generate the
15 >> images (based on a heavily modified version of Matt Vandermeulen's
16 >> scripts). If you have any issues please submit bugs there or contact me
17 >> on irc (prometheanfire on freenode).
18 >>
19 >> Here's the link to the images, I'm currently gpg signing them with the
20 >> same key I use to sign this email (offline master key smartcard setup
21 >> for security minded folk).
22 >>
23 >> http://23.253.251.73/
24 >>
25 >> Let me know if you have questions,
26 >>
27 >
28 >
29 > OK, So to test the images, just burn a dvd/usbstick and run it like a
30 > liveDVD? I did not see instructions or brief guidance; I'm noob with
31 > openstack but curious to see how she performs......
32 >
33 >
34 > Long term, will we get an openstack-meta (testing) out of this in
35 > portage, or should I just dedicated an old dual core amd64 box for image
36 > testing?
37 >
38 > I'm building up (from 100% sources) a mesos cluster offering
39 > with cephfs, Apache-spark, Apache-storm and tachyon. It'd be great to
40 > run some tests of codes on openstack (running on local hardware) and
41 > then test the same hardware running Apache-mesos. So any suggestions you
42 > have on that (so the comparisons are as similar as possible, including
43 > recommended test codes) would be of keen interest to me.
44 >
45 >
46 > James
47 >
48 >
49 >
50 This is an image to deploy on top of Openstack. While you can deploy
51 Openstack on the image, it isn't made for that purpose.
52
53 Something like this is needed to import it into glance.
54
55 glance image-create --name gentoo-20150608 --disk-format qcow2
56 --container-format bare --is-public True --min-disk 5 --min-ram 512
57 --file gentoo-amd64-multilib_2015-06-08.qcow2 --progress
58
59
60 --
61 Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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