Awesome, never really played with Gentoo before, eager to give it a spin. On Monday, June 22, 2015, Matthew Thode <prometheanf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 06/23/2015 12:17 AM, Matthew Thode wrote: > > On 06/11/2015 10:12 AM, Matthew Thode wrote: > >> On 06/11/2015 04:11 AM, Eren Türkay wrote: > >>> On 10-06-2015 02:14, George Shuklin wrote: > >>>> Aw. Don't discriminate DHCP. It has many nice features (for example, > if you add > >>>> new interface to existing VM, cloud-init with static config will > ignore it, but > >>>> DHCP will works like magic). > >>>> > >>>> I don't know how it works in Gentoo, but in Debian 'allow-hotplug' > for all > >>>> interfaces but eth0 allows to support most of the future interfaces. > Same for > >>>> CentOS - you can add few eth scripts to network configuration and > they will > >>>> works as soon as new interface appears. > >>> > >>> I want to add to this comment. I believe this hot-plug feature for > ethernet > >>> devices is essential in the cloud environment. Short time ago I needed > to move > >>> port from one instance to another while keeping the internal IP > address same. I > >>> achieved it by removing a port from the old instance, re-creating the > port with > >>> the same ip address, and pluging it to the new instance. > >>> > >>> The downtime was minimal as the instance supported hot-plug (ubuntu > 14.04) and > >>> the ip addresses were distributed using DHCP. When the interface was > >>> re-plugged, dhclient requested an ip address and the DHCP server gave > the > >>> internal address of the port which I specified. > >>> > >>> So, it would be really great if you can support hot-plugging for > ethernet > >>> devices and DHCP. I find them very useful and I believe many people > would > >>> expect this feature from Gentoo image. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> OpenStack-operators mailing list > >>> OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org <javascript:;> > >>> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > >>> > >> ya, it's probably the number one thing I want to see as well and the > >> next thing I'm working on. > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> OpenStack-operators mailing list > >> OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org <javascript:;> > >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > >> > > ok, updated the images. Did the following. > > > > 1. Allowed for any interface to get auto addressed (dhcpcd handles that > > actually, no net configs needed). > > > > 2. The rootfs resizes on first boot now. > > > > 3. image size is reduced. > > > > 4. more profiles are now available. > > > > Notes... DIB is on my todo, but should be very minor, since I'm > > generating more or less official openstack stage4 guest tarballs > > already. Also, getting these images themselves official (within gentoo) > > is next and kinda hard if only because it needs to be totally within > > catalyst. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-operators mailing list > > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org <javascript:;> > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > > forgot the link, here it is. > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/amd64/openstack/ > > -- > -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) > >
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