Hello folks,
It's been a while since I updated the list on my progress, I have been busy
lately with other things.
The previous blocker which was a bug in dhclient is fixed now and is in
fedora-updates repo. The existing kickstart files which are used to build
fedora cloud images can be used for GCE as well without any modification.
Since everybody voted up for cloud-init for initial GCE instance setup, I
wrote cloud-init data source for GCE metadata. The only thing it does not
do yet is read user-data from GCE metadata API, because GCE does not
distinguish between key:value attributes, they are all the same from their
point of view which is not the case from cloud-init point of view. I
noticed that cloud-init is very much EC2-focused.
Should I assume that people will create a GCE metadata attribute called
'user-data' if they want to get cloud-init to setup their instance
initially?
Another issue with cloud-init is that EC2 data source takes ages to run on
non EC2 cloud providers with default configuration. By default it is one of
the first ones to run when instance starts. Default config for EC2 data
sources tells cloud-init to retry 240 times, which is roughly about 3-4
minutes.
Which brings me to another question - should we have a specific kickstart
snippet for GCE and potentially for other clouds which just changes default
cloud-init config (enables/disables cloud-init data sources) based on what
kind of cloud image that is?
Any ideas / comments are welcome. I will paste the code later today for
people review it.
Thanks,
Vaidas
On 23 January 2014 18:17, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:09:43AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Google requires you to sign an NDA, that is something that Fedora has
> no ability to do, it will need to be sorted out between Red Hat and
> Googles lawyers. As such we can not offer an official image in GCE
> until its sorted out.
It's my understanding (from Sam) that this *is* sorted out.
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