#415: Fedora Cloud Images are very hard to find ----------------------+----------------------- Reporter: haypo | Owner: webmaster Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: General | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: ----------------------+----------------------- Hi,
For an unknown reason, it is very hard to locate cloud images for the "regular Fedora", whereas it is very easy to locate "Atomic" images. But I don't want the container thing with "dnf: command not found". I would like a regular Fedora where I can install anything, trash my OS if I want to, etc. I would like to build a VM to develop on Python and run benchmarks, so I really want to avoid the indirection of a docket container.
* To locate Fedora Cloud Image, I tried "fedora cloud image" in Google. * First result: "Cloud images - Fedora" with an URL containing "fedora.org", nice: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_images * Ah, it's a wiki page which only contains a redirection to http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/ * http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/ is automatically redirected to https://getfedora.org/atomic/ * https://getfedora.org/atomic/ is a dead end, there is no link to cloud images for the regular Fedora
A colleague (I'm working for Red Hat, hello!) gave me the URL ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/25/CloudImages/x86_64/images/. Sadly, OpenStack failed to fetch the QCOW image using the FTP protocol. It worked using HTTP: http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/25/CloudI... /Fedora-Cloud-Base-25-1.3.x86_64.qcow2
But this image doesn't work :-( It fails somewhere in cloud-image. I should report this bug too.
On #fedora, I was told to try a cloud image of Fedora 24, I got the link: http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/24/CloudI...
Then another colleague, gave me a different link for Fedora 25: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/twoweek/Fedora- Atomic-25-20161216.0/compose/CloudImages/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud- Base-25-20161216.0.x86_64.qcow2
This is a mess: why should I ask people for URLs on IRC? :-(
Why now showing these images on the official Fedora website?
Cloud is a thing nowadays, why not supporting cloud images more officially?
The second colleague also pointed me to https://fedorahosted.org/fedora- websites/ticket/406#comment:1 which says that Atomic becomes the "default". IMO it's a bad idea to hide other cloud images, the user should have the choice of how Fedora is installed!
Thank you for your nice website and your amazing operating system! Fedora works very well on my desktop and laptop PCs!
#415: Fedora Cloud Images are very hard to find ---------------------+------------------------ Reporter: haypo | Owner: webmaster Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: major | Milestone: Component: General | Resolution: duplicate Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | ---------------------+------------------------ Changes (by robyduck):
* status: new => closed * resolution: => duplicate
Comment:
Fedora Atomic is now the default image set, and all redirects are pointing to it actually. We support cloud images officially since a long time and what the Cloud WG decided was even a step forward; saying that we should support them and Cloud is a thing and...is just a superficial statement.
We are working already on a new place where Cloud Base images will live, and we will obviously point to it, the same as pointing from there to atomic. Also, cloud.fp.o will redirect to this in the near future.
Please don't use fedorahosted.org anymore for reporting new issues, as stated when you openend this report. We have all issues on https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/issues
There you will also find the [https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/issue/57 conversation about Cloud Base images], we are having with the Cloud WG and Design teams.
Closing this as duplicate.
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