On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Joe Brockmeier jzb@redhat.com wrote:
On 10/28/2015 08:21 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
The *could* be the same thing, except cloud-init is terrible and I hate it and if that was the single offering we had for some kind of C&S WG I would cry. I hate it because it is ridiculous to use in a non-cloud environment, and Server very much has that as part of it's reach.
Forking this thread briefly because I think this deserves its own discussion.
Is your objection primarily to the concept of cloud-init or the implementation? If it's the concept, not much we can help with there. If it's the implementation...
We've talked about replacing cloud-init a few times in the past, but there are two objections:
- cloud-init is "standard" and we have an uphill marketing battle to get
our image adopted with something else.
- lack of a great alternative.
This is one of the utilities I've often thought it would be great for the systemd group of utilities to absorb as it crosses over into a bunch of that space like setting hostnames, auth etc. I believe they'd likely do it some justice.
Peter