Blueprint changed by Antonio Rosales: Whiteboard changed: Etherpad: http://pad.ubuntu.com/uds-q-servercloud-q-cloud-images Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-cloud-images Note, related blueprint (cloud-init, cloud-utils) at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-cloud-init-utils - Ben, could you please integrate the spec @ - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BlueprintSpec [a.rosales]. + General Cloud Image improvements. + Discussion of improvement and enhancements to the Cloud Images and Cloud-Init + 1. Publication of EBS Rescue volumes + 2. Improving methods for users to find official EC2 AMI ids + Places that Ubuntu AMIs are listed currently: + - http://cloud.ubuntu.com/ami + Action: Default should show the latest, EBS boot, 64-bit, us-east-1 + with easy "Launch" button to start AWS console + Action: Check-box interface/Work on UI + Action: Add link to cloud-images.ubuntu.com + - http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ + Action: Add launch button + Action: Link from other AMI listings to preferred start page + Action: Add links Quickstarts + + Make it easier for people to find the official AMI's + 3. Full disk images (-disk1.img) for older releases (at least 10.04). + 4. Disable the 5 second grub menu, by default. It was really only necessary to + change the command line options, but now with the easy nocloud from ISO, I think + we should shave the 5 seconds off boot. + + --- + + User Stories: + Thomas has encountered an issue deploying Ubuntu Cloud images and can access a rescue snapshot via the Elastic Block Store volume to take advantage of a SSH shell to help debug the issue. + + Leah would like to speed up the boot process and can take advantage of + nocloud from ISO, and thus would like to disable the 5 second boot time- + out default in the grub menu. + + Luke is looking for official Ubuntu AMIs and can easily find and launch + the lasest from cloud.ubuntu.com/ami + + Rachel is a Lucid Ubuntu Cloud user and take advantage of a full disk + image. + + Assumptions: + n/a + + Test Plans: + Deploy EBS rescue volume and utilize ssh to access a defunct cloud image. + + Deploy default latest cloud image and confirm grub does not have a 5 + second time out. + + Get user feedback on easily finding the latest AMI on + cloud.ubuntu.com/ami and being easily able to launch it. + + Release Notes: + When work is complete add information pertaining to Lucid full disk images, rescue EBS shots, and improvements to cloud.ubuntu.com.
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