Aaron gave me a good idea yesterday. The script [1] which I whipped up to demo deltacloud on fedora-devel [2] could be used to very quickly test out templates on the cloud. (without having to wait for the long image building process which takes lots of time and bandwidth)
The tool is pretty basic, it just sets up a cloud environment via deltacloud with some extra info added to the tdl (the added fields do not overlap w/ the existing tdl ones, so the templates can still be used with oz / imagefactory as is), and runs a ssh loop to process the tdl. The nice thing is I can simplify it even further very easily by removing that ssh loop and simply using oz to process the tdl on the running cloud instance. Essentially this would mean mycloud (the name can be changed) is the simplest unification of deltacloud and oz To prevent confusion, I propose we name these templates w/ the extended cloud data, "extended tdls", or etdl's for short. This would give deltacloud another use case and would make building and testing templates for various purposes very simple and easy. Thoughts? -Mo [1] https://github.com/movitto/mycloud/blob/master/mycloud.rb [2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-November/173298.html
