Re: cloud Digest, Vol 38, Issue 21

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Loranz
Imagefactory is more than a REST interface to oz. Oz creates a JEOS image. The customization that oz performs is limited to installing additional packages or running commands within a VM started with the JEOS image. Oz does not have knowledge of what needs to be added or how an image needs to be

Re: future of Boxgrinder ... building cloud images

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Loranz
d then the > 'last-mile' via puppet seems efficient. > > (I use Puppet as an example, Chef would be equally appropriate) > > Tim > >> -Original Message- >> From: cloud-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:cloud- >> boun...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: cloud Digest, Vol 36, Issue 24

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Loranz
Russ, Apologies if I'm misinterpreting what you're saying here, but I think that imagefactory can do what you are looking for. The core of imagefactory supplies the REST interface, CLI, provides some storage for built images, and manages dispatching work to the plugins. The plugins do the heavy

Re: tool for image building and update

2012-09-20 Thread Steve Loranz
Just a quick note on the difference between ImageFactory and Oz. Oz creates a KVM image, does a Just Enough OS (JEOS) install of the operating system, and provides a means to adding additional packages to and/or running customization scripts on the OS installed in this image. ImageFactory creat

Image Factory version 0.2.1 released

2011-06-21 Thread Steve Loranz
The Image Factory team is pleased to announce the release of Image Factory version 0.2.1. Version 0.2.1 adds features and bugfixes needed to support the next step in the evolution of Aeolus. - VMware vSphere support has been added. - Support for snapshots of EC2 images on EBS has been add