[one-users] OpenNebula Appliances available for download

[Shantanu Pavgi]

On May 16, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Daniel Molina wrote:

Hi Owen,

On 14 May 2012 13:03, Owen Synge <owen.synge at desy.de<mailto:owen.synge at desy.de>> wrote:
Dear all,

What is a market place? Why does Open Nebular need one? Why should it be
cloud specific?

As I under stand it a "Market place" is following Apples success a poor copy
of debian's "apt repository" has been re branded and emasculated. Unlike
"apt", and its rpm clone "yum" the feature to deploy a repository on any old
web server have been removed in a market place.

Rather than having a layered architecture with a set of user interfaces,
apt, aptitude, kpackage and synaptic around "apt", market places typically
suffer from just one or some times two interfaces.

One of the sad things about computer concepts is that products promoting
lock in get seen my marketeers as a good idea.

So why does Open Nebular need a market place, and not adopt a simpler "apt"
approach?

I am bias, here is my "apt" replacement for a market place that will work
with open nebular and stratuslab, as I don’t believe in lock in.

https://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/

Its like "apt" and "yum" and only requires a web server to host the images
and metadata, unlike what I have seen of "market place" servers.

Community users have requested several times for pre-configured images
ready to run in OpenNebula environments, so we decided to provide
these images in the following link [1].

Since this solution is a bit limited, we decided to develop a service
where we can include metadata of these images and provide OpenNebula
users the possibility of sharing pointers of their own images. Just to
clarify, this service will not host the images but pointers to them
and metadata.

Currently we are evaluating different technologies for this service
and we will take into account the solution you provide [2]. Thanks for
the feedback

Cheers

[1] http://www.opennebula.org/software:appliances
[2] https://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/


Regards

Owen Synge



On 05/14/2012 12:17 PM, Daniel Molina wrote:

Hi Carlo,

The OpenNebula Marketplace will provide OpenNebula users the
possibility of sharing and running Virtual Machine images with
OpenNebula. Users will be able to upload their images or retrieve
existing preconfigured images from the community catalog.

More information coming in a few weeks

Cheers

On 11 May 2012 16:22, Carlo Daffara<cdaffara at gmail.com<mailto:cdaffara at gmail.com>>  wrote:

That's great! We would love to submit some of the images we use to
jumpstart installation (mainly CentOS, some Opensuse). Is there any
idea of how the marketplace
will work/will be like?
Carlo Daffara
CloudWeavers

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jaime Melis<jmelis at opennebula.org<mailto:jmelis at opennebula.org>>
 wrote:

Dear OpenNebula Users,

we are preparing a new Maketplace component. Users will be able to use
it to download Virtual Machine Images that will boot
directly with OpenNebula.

In the meantime we have uploaded a few images available for download
to give users an idea of what's about to come:

http://opennebula.org/software:appliances
http://appliances.c12g.com

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Jaime

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Hi,

It's great to see ongoing efforts and discussions related to developing an OpenNebula marketplace for base images. I think this will be an important component of the eco-system as it will allow users to access and deploy base images easily. I am not sure of implementation details of the marketplace, but I thought I would share some of my thoughts and wish-list features.

Many system administrators and regular users would prefer to know how a particular base images was created before instantiating it their environment. It's also important to know the base image profile from security point of view. So it would be great if marketplace allows and encourages users to register their installation scripts along with the base image. This will also help in developing best practices for creating base images and yield well configured base images eventually.

We can get started with sharing of installation scripts even without a marketplace and then create base images in the marketplace once it is ready.  I have posted my notes on how kickstart installation can be used to create CentOS base images for OpenNebula - http://knowshantanu.github.com/systems/2012/05/07/Kickstarting-OpenNebula-VM-Images.html . I have posted notes on kickstart installation method as I am familiar only with this method, however there are other options available like Cobbler and Ubuntu/Debian seed files.

Again, thanks to OpenNebula team for getting started with this new marketplace component.

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Shantanu

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