Hi, Multiple times, in the debian-cloud@l.d.o, we've came to the conclusion that Debian should be release images of the stable release (and probably testing as well) to be run in the cloud. I'm bringing this topic to -devel, as I'm convince it is a topic which should be debated with everyone in Debian.
There is enough software in Debian itself which can support such images: - Openstack - Eucalyptus - XCP - etc. Currently, we have semi-official images which, thanks to the nice work of the people in debian-cl...@lists.debian.org, are uploaded to both AWS and Azure. While it's nice that we have these, and while I believe such initiatives should be encouraged and generalize to other hosting providers, it is now clear that we need a channel to be able to provide Debian cloud images. Please have a look to what they do at Ubuntu: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/ and more specifically, when you click on one of them: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/ they provide both the images for all Ubuntu releases. Also, please notice that there are multiple format available: - .ovf, which is an open format - disk1.img qcow2 format: can be uploaded to Openstack, or booted directly using kvm, and many more - .img, +kernel and ramdisk: can be used on EC2, Eucalyptus, or Openstack Plus there are "links" to EC2 so that you can just launch such instances. [in debian.org, we should allow anyone to add information about Debian images in any company though, and not focus only on one major vendor, otherwise it is anti-competitive] So, put in simple words: we need something like this. Question is, where can this be uploaded? To me, cdimage.debian.org seem to be the natural place. Does it make sense to everyone else? Could we, in a near future, imagine having these images creation, included in the official release build process, together with the CDs, DVDs, etc.? Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5142bf77.3080...@debian.org
