Alex Heneveld created JCLOUDS-320:
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Summary: Allow Image preference logic to be supplied to
TempalteBuilder
Key: JCLOUDS-320
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-320
Project: jclouds
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: jclouds-core
Affects Versions: 1.6.2
Reporter: Alex Heneveld
The driving use case is that I want a portable way to say "any recent ubuntu or
centos". Normally this is the default of course but it doesn't always do the
right thing when other options are specified -- broken ubuntu "alpha" images in
AWS being the worst offender (asking for 16gb RAM in us-west-1 gives back an
awful ubuntu 8.04 alpha, for instance!). It would also handle use cases where
someone says "Ubuntu 11 or 12, or CentOS 6.x, is best. failing that, Ubuntu 10
or CentOS 5.x. (and never any alpha images!)".
I'm thinking allowing to set an `imageSorter(Ordering)`. This fits with how
the Impl currently works (it already uses an Ordering, you just can't change
it; and it stays in line with the naming convention of `Sorter` as in
`Ordering hardwareSorter()`.)
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