Imagefactory HVM support for EC2

John Hover jhover at bnl.gov
Wed Jan 14 21:30:03 UTC 2015


Hi,

We're heavy users of Imagefactory for building VMs to run scientific 
data processing on EC2 and on several private Openstack clusters.

Four questions:

Do you know if/when Imagefactory will begin supporting builds of 
HVM-compatible images on EC2? The newer instance types no longer support 
the PV images currently created. This is important to us because we 
often run 20000-50000 cores at a time, and getting that kind of capacity 
requires using multiple instance types.

I see no traffic at all on imagefactory-devel. Is this because the real 
discussions are happening elsewhere, or is it really not a very active 
project?

Is Redhat intending to continue Imagefactory as its image authoring 
framework? I built a lot of infrastructure around Boxgrinder, only to 
have it deprecated. I hope we're not facing the same situation with 
Imagefactory.

We have several simple patches that have made things easier for us and 
might be useful to others. Do you take pull requests via github, or some 
other mechanism?

Thanks,

--john


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John Hover
Group Leader | Grid Group/Experiment Services
RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility | Brookhaven National Laboratory
jhover at bnl.gov | 631-344-5828 | http://www.racf.bnl.gov/Members/jhover

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