I should also point out that we're giving away quota for free to anybody on debian-cloud who wants to kick the tires, and volunteer their time to help out. Just let me know :)
-david On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jose, > > Glad you tried it and had a successful build! The $400/month support > contract is a short-term requirement - once it reaches general availability, > it will be similarly open to other public clouds. > > - Jimmy > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Jose R R <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Niltze, all! >> >> Being interested in Debian cloud instances and having deployed/used Debian >> on different providers, including CloudSigma, RackSpace, HPCloud, & >> SingleHop, I was quite interested in this thread. >> >> As wheezy release approaches, I tried to give the Google Compute (Cloud) >> Engina a spin. >> >> I git cloned the repo at https://github.com/google/build-debian-cloud in a >> machine with Debian Wheeze/Sid and: >> >> ./build-debian-cloud gce --codename wheezy --filesystem xfs --timezone PST >> --name Metztli >> >> The image builds, so I assume it works as well. Did not try it because GCE >> requires a $400 investment up front. >> >> From my perspective an elastic cloud fabric that enables virtualized >> instances to be migrated to-and-from the users' local/personal computer (and >> not only from a private/hybrid cloud in an enterprise datacenter) to the >> public cloud of a vendor would be would be 'cool'. >> >> Anyhow, the code from your gitHub repo for the AWS & GCE Debian effort >> builds a debian-wheezy-20130504.tar.gz file containing a disk.raw image. >> >> >> I like the fact that Debian is being deployed on leading edge technology >> paradigms as the cloud. >> >> >> Best Professional Regards. >> >> >> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Charles, >>> >>> Sorry for the slow response to this mail. The build command I'm using is >>> simply sudo ./build-debian-cloud --codename squeeze or sudo >>> ./build-debian-cloud --codename wheezy, from the top level of a checkout of >>> https://github.com/google/build-debian-cloud or Anders' upstream repository >>> (no unmerged changes exist right now). The code supports auto-upload and >>> auto-image-add, but I'm not using either feature right now (auto-image-add >>> also has some bugs for my setup). The commands after that would be something >>> like this: >>> >>> # Upload the image. For this command, the bucket inside Google Cloud >>> Storage can live anywhere, it doesn't matter and becomes irrelevant to an >>> image once gcutil addimage runs. >>> # I currently have mine in the debian-cloud project but it doesn't have >>> to be. I might move it to the debian-cloud-experiments project, or anywhere >>> else. >>> gsutil cp debian-squeeze-20130502.tar.gz >>> gs://jkaplowitz_gce_debian/debian-6_0_7-squeeze-v20130502.tar.gz >>> # Create the image for testing purposes. >>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud-experiments addimage >>> debian-6-squeeze-v20130502 --description="Debian 6.0.7 squeeze, built on >>> 2013-05-02" gs://jkaplowitz_gce_debian/debian-6_0_7-squeeze-v20130502.tar.gz >>> --preferred_kernel=projects/google/global/kernels/gce-v20130325 >>> # Perform some testing before publishing to all Google Compute Engine >>> customers, as we are providing a way for them to automatically pick the >>> latest debian-cloud squeeze and wheezy images. The minimal example here >>> confirms basic SSH functionality and cleans up after itself. >>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud-experiments addinstance >>> debian-6-squeeze-v20130502-$USER-test >>> --image=projects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-7-v20130502 >>> --zone=us-central1-b --machine_type=n1-standard-1 >>> gcutil ssh debian-6-squeeze-v20130502-$USER-test >>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud-experiments deleteinstance >>> debian-6-squeeze-v20130502-$USER-test >>> # Delete the test image. >>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud-experiments deleteimage >>> debian-6-squeeze-v20130502 >>> # Publish the image for real. >>> gcutil --project=debian-cloud addimage debian-6-squeeze-v20130502 >>> --description="Debian 6.0.7 squeeze, built on 2013-05-02" >>> gs://jkaplowitz_gce_debian/debian-6_0_7-squeeze-v20130502.tar.gz >>> --preferred_kernel=projects/google/global/kernels/gce-v20130325 >>> >>> We've slightly tweaked the naming convention to have both number and >>> codename and to avoid underscores (apparently not allowed), but I'll send a >>> separate mail about our last-minute tweaks. >>> >>> Feel free to list us in the cloud team wiki page. I've been meaning to do >>> it myself but haven't yet signed in to the Debian wiki on the computers I >>> use when I focus on this effort. I'll fix that soon. :) >>> >>> - Jimmy >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Le Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:50:48AM -0700, Jimmy Kaplowitz a écrit : >>>> > >>>> > * The images are built with Anders' script build-debian-cloud >>>> > (https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud), which was called >>>> > ec2debian-build-ami until we worked with him to add Google Compute >>>> > Engine support. >>>> >>>> Hi Jimmy and David, >>>> >>>> build-debian-cloud is easy to use, but I found useful the command-line >>>> snippet >>>> on http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze, that describes >>>> how to >>>> prepare the image for the Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud. Could you >>>> paste one >>>> (or send to the list so that one of us can paste), for the Google >>>> Compute >>>> Engine pages ? >>>> >>>> By the way, do you mind if I add your names to >>>> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Cloud >>>> (or please go ahead if you would like to add them yourselves). >>>> >>>> Have a nice day, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Charles Plessy >>>> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jose R R >> http://www.metztli-it.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> IBM Lotus Symphony supported on GNU/Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Daylight Saving Time in USA & Canada starts: Sunday 08 March 2010 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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