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I agree with Michael. We need to use the OpenStack tooling.

Sahara is encountering some of the same issues we are as they are building
up their hadoop VM/clusters.

See

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/sahara/userdoc/vanilla_plugin.html
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/sahara/userdoc/diskimagebuilder.html

for inspiration,

Susanne



On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Michael Johnson <johnsomor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am investigating building scripts that use diskimage-builder
> (https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder) to create a "purpose
> built" image.  This should allow some flexibility in the base image
> and the output image format (including a path to docker).
>
> The definition of "purpose built" is open at this point.  I will
> likely try to have a minimal Ubuntu based VM image as a starting
> point/test case and we can add/change as necessary.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Dustin Lundquist <dustin at null-ptr.net>
> wrote:
> > It seems to me there are two major approaches to the Octavia VM design:
> >
> > Start with a standard Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) and
> install
> > HAProxy 1.5 and Octavia control layer
> > Develop a minimal purpose driven distribution (similar to m0n0wall) with
> > just HAProxy, iproute2 and a Python runtime for the control layer.
> >
> > The primary difference here is additional development effort for option
> 2,
> > verses the increased image size of option 1. Using Ubuntu and CirrOS
> images
> > a representative of the two options it looks like the image size
> difference
> > is on the about 20 times larger for a full featured distribution. If one
> of
> > the HA models is to spin up a replacement instance on failure the image
> size
> > could be significantly affect fail-over time.
> >
> > For initial work I think starting with a standard distribution would be
> > sensible, but we should target systemd (Debian adopted systemd as new
> > default, and Ubuntu is following suit). I wanted to find out if there is
> > interest in a minimal Octavia image, and if so this may affect design
> > decisions on the instance control plane component.
> >
> >
> > -Dustin
> >
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