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.
Mike has talked about a "rich boot process" previously, and I wonder if we're ready to start working on that?
Also, one of the CentOS GSoC projects was "Flamingo" "a lightweight contextualization tool that aims to handle initialization of cloud instances." [1] Maybe this is something we could look at for F24? CC'ing Tamer Tas, the student who worked on that. (It's targeted at being a cloud-init replacement for Atomic, so...)
[1] https://github.com/tmrts/flamingo