Thank you Nathan for setting me straight! Indeed I assumed in correctly. As an image generator, this does look like a fine tool.
Ben On Oct 16, 2017 6:08 AM, "Noah Meyerhans" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 11:14:01PM -0600, Ben Howard wrote: > > Thank you for the idea, however, after looking at it, I see FAI as > > technology akin to KickStart, MAAS, AutoYast, etc. > > Ben, as you weren't at last year's cloud sprint, you likely missed that > we settled on using FAI as the cloud image generation tool then. I've > been using it since then to build the Debian images available in the AWS > Marketplace. (As far as I know, other clouds haven't yet adopted it, but > I think this will be an issue to fix during this sprint.) It does not > attempt to duplicate any of what cloud-init is doing, and in fact still > runs cloud-init as usual. > > Adding support for additional cloud to our FAI configs should be very > nearly trivial. If they don't require any special configuration or > packages baked into the image, then there's really no configuration at > all. If they do require specific configuration (e.g. for EC2 we want to > bake the aws-cli and boto packages into the image) then that's easy to > do. > > The FAI configs for building vagrant boxes and EC2 AMIs are at > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/cloud/fai-cloud-images.git/tree/ > > While snapshot-based image customization is, of course, supported, we > also explicitly wanted to support users who want to construct images > "from scratch" that derive from our configs. This is straightforward in > FAI, and I posted a blog giving an example of our one might do it: > > https://noah.meyerhans.us/blog/2017/02/10/using-fai-to- > customize-and-build-your-own-cloud-images/ > > At last year's sprint, we demoed the various available image generation > tools. I suspect we'll do something similar again this year, so you'll > get to see the system in action. > > noah > >
