Analysis of Ubuntu's Cloud-Utils package
by Stephen John Smoogen
Promised this for Friday and its still barely that here :).
This package is currently a set of scripts to allow Ubuntu's Cloud
members to create, deploy, and manipulate Eucalyptis virtual images.
Code is GPLv3 and the package is done in Debian style (which is
starting to grow on me as an equivalent to sysv.d type building.) The
code is all shell scripts and man pages. I really appreciate coders
who take the time to do a man page even for a simple shell script.
Description of programs are taken from man page. [Code could do with
more comments to help analysis :).. but for the most part is
self-documenting.
ssh-import-lp-id # retrieve one or more public keys from
Launchpad.net and append them to the current user’s authorized_keys
file
uec-publish-image # publish a cloud image using euca-tools.
uec-publish-tarball # publish the tar ball using euca-tools.
uec-query-builds # request information about available cloud images builds
uec-resize-image # resize a cloud image. # basically it does the right
things to resize using euca-tools.
The package of course could be opened up to further cloud type
engines. For us, we would look at ssh-import-lp-id from FAS or
something but boy that seems like a security issue somewhere (hey look
mah, I can just add my p0wn address from FAS/launchpad.) However, that
is just a gut feeling and will probably fail a real risk analysis.
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EC2 kernel image status
by Justin Forbes
The good news is that I have F12 images uploaded. The bad news is that we
cannot use them yet. It seems there is a permissions problem with our
account which won't let me register kernel images. Amazon is on it, and I
expect resolution soon. Once the permissions are fixed, it is just a
couple of quick commands to make them visible and usable.
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Meeting minutes from last Thursday's "meeting", heh
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
So we had a meeting last Thursday, of sorts:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-18/fedora-meeting...
It was very quick. The takeaway:
1. We really need to get the latest AKI uploaded if we want to move on to
the next step: allowing our users to test. Which means we're blocking on
Justin for this. Justin promised this would happen Real Soon Now -- feel
free to offer your encouragement to him on this point. ;)
2. At some point in the not-too-distant future, the AKI isn't going to
matter anymore. (Not a point for wide dissemination at this point -- I
have details, and if you'd like them, contact me.)
That is all.
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Meeting reminder (US folks, note time change!)
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hi everybody. Since daylight savings time has started in the US, that
means that we're going to be getting together at 5pm Eastern US time,
which is 2100 GMT.
Our biggest goal continues to be the uploading of our kernels, and the
discussion will probably center around getting that done, and what we can
do to drive (a) testing the kernel, (b) the tools for building an image
around that kernel, and (c) turning standard spins into standard AMIs.
See you all this afternoon. irc.freenode.net, #fedora-meeting.
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Cloud meeting: I'm on a plane
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Because of travel delays, I will be on a plane during our scheduled
meeting time. If someone else wants to lead the meeting, I'm fine with
that; otherwise, I'm happy to wait until next week.
Here's my status for the week: Amazon is working on "something big" that
we can't really talk about in public, and it affects the way we will be
uploading kernels. They were supposed to announce something last Friday,
but they haven't -- which means that, to some degree, we're in a holding
pattern.
Until this "big thing" happens, though, we should still be able to upload
our latest kernel for testing, and if we can get an AKI uploaded that
works for F12, we should be able to start building images. In fact, I
think we should be trying to upload both F12 and F13-beta images.
Justin -- are we ready to upload AKIs for F12 and F13-beta? Any
impediments at this point?
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Meeting reminder: Cloud SIG
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hello folks -- meeting reminder.
Bat-time: 4pm eastern US time
Bat-channel: irc.freenode.net, #fedora... cloud? meeting?
Bat-agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraOnEC2
It's also been proposed, and it seems like a good idea, that we should be
holding these meetings on #fedora-meeting. The only issue is that there's
*exactly* one hour free on #fedora-meeting during our current meeting
window: infrastructure is before us, and fedora-latam is after us.
I'm confident that we can keep our meetings to an hour, and if necessary
we can always wander over to #fedora-cloud if we've got opens that
continue to require discussion.
So mmcgrath, since you have the time block from 3pm-4pm, tell us: do your
meetings ever run longer than an hour? Because if so, I'd like to move
over to #fedora-meeting *today*.
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Eucalyptus test system
by graziano obertelli
Hello,
I thought that having a small Eucalyptus test system may be helpful to
check EC2 interface, and perhaps it may help in developing the EC2 image
for fedora. Let me know if this is the case and I can give access to some
installation of the latest Eucalyptus code.
cheers
graziano
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