Great, Jose. Just email David and me your Google account email address (both consumer Gmail and Google Apps should work), off-list is fine, and we can give you access to test.
This goes for others as well, of course. :) - Jimmy On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Jose R R <[email protected]> wrote: > Niltze, David- > > I'm interested in 'kicking the tires' of Debian on GCE. I did the same on > HP Cloud during the beta period, where I highlighted the dreaded issue of > hung (re)booting process from within the Debian image (losing my data ;-) > when executing the GNU command(s), reboot or halt, and the image(s) became > stuck --unbootable even from the web console. > > Hope that GCE is more mature in that aspect. > > > Best Professional Regards. > > > Jose- > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:47 PM, David McWherter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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-cloudin 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 ends: Sunday, November 03 2013 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
