[one-users] OpenNebula Appliances available for download

[Daniel Molina]

On 16 May 2012 18:26, Shantanu Pavgi <pavgi at uab.edu> wrote:
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> On May 16, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Daniel Molina wrote:
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> Hi Owen,
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> On 14 May 2012 13:03, Owen Synge <owen.synge at desy.de> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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>
> What is a market place? Why does Open Nebular need one? Why should it be
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> cloud specific?
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> As I under stand it a "Market place" is following Apples success a poor copy
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> of debian's "apt repository" has been re branded and emasculated. Unlike
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> "apt", and its rpm clone "yum" the feature to deploy a repository on any old
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> web server have been removed in a market place.
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> Rather than having a layered architecture with a set of user interfaces,
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> apt, aptitude, kpackage and synaptic around "apt", market places typically
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> suffer from just one or some times two interfaces.
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> One of the sad things about computer concepts is that products promoting
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> lock in get seen my marketeers as a good idea.
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>
> So why does Open Nebular need a market place, and not adopt a simpler "apt"
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> approach?
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> I am bias, here is my "apt" replacement for a market place that will work
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> with open nebular and stratuslab, as I don’t believe in lock in.
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> https://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/
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> Its like "apt" and "yum" and only requires a web server to host the images
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> and metadata, unlike what I have seen of "market place" servers.
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> 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].
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> 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
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> Cheers
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> [1] http://www.opennebula.org/software:appliances
> [2] https://github.com/hepix-virtualisation/
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>
> Regards
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> Owen Synge
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> On 05/14/2012 12:17 PM, Daniel Molina wrote:
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> Hi Carlo,
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> The OpenNebula Marketplace will provide OpenNebula users the
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> possibility of sharing and running Virtual Machine images with
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> OpenNebula. Users will be able to upload their images or retrieve
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> existing preconfigured images from the community catalog.
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> More information coming in a few weeks
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>
> Cheers
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> On 11 May 2012 16:22, Carlo Daffara<cdaffara at gmail.com>  wrote:
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> That's great! We would love to submit some of the images we use to
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> jumpstart installation (mainly CentOS, some Opensuse). Is there any
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> idea of how the marketplace
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> will work/will be like?
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> Carlo Daffara
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> CloudWeavers
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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jaime Melis<jmelis at opennebula.org>
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>  wrote:
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> Dear OpenNebula Users,
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> we are preparing a new Maketplace component. Users will be able to use
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> it to download Virtual Machine Images that will boot
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> directly with OpenNebula.
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> In the meantime we have uploaded a few images available for download
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> to give users an idea of what's about to come:
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> http://opennebula.org/software:appliances
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> http://appliances.c12g.com
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> Enjoy!
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> Cheers,
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> Jaime
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>
> --
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> Jaime Melis
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> Project Engineer
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> OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
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> www.OpenNebula.org | jmelis at opennebula.org
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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.
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> 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.
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> Again, thanks to OpenNebula team for getting started with this new
> marketplace component.
>
> --
> Shantanu
>

That is a great idea, we will take it into account. Any feedback is
more than welcome, thank you.

-- 
Daniel Molina
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | dmolina at opennebula.org | @OpenNebula