FS#45613 - Official Arch Linux OpenStack images, generated

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sebastian Pipping (sping) - Saturday, 11 July 2015, 17:32 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Monday, 28 November 2022, 06:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Mirrors
Status Closed
Assigned To Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi there!


In May I noticed that there are no official images for booting OpenStack instances with Arch Linux. That is one reason why cloud providers do not offer virtual machines with Arch out of the box.
Since then, I have been adding support for both Arch and OpenStack to image-bootstrap [1], a tool to create virtual machine images, originally for Debian and Ubuntu.
By now, one can create Arch OpenStack images with image-boostrap rather easily:

# image-bootstrap --openstack arch /dev/loop0

What I am hoping for is that you agree that offering official Arch OpenStack images for download would benefit the Arch community and that it would help the security of users, to have the images generated, signed and uploaded by people that are trusted by the Arch community, e.g. members of the master keyring team; in essence just what is done with archlinux-bootstrap-*-*.tar.gz, already.

If there is any interest from your side, I would love to discuss any changes that you would like to see happen in image-bootstrap.

If you would like to play with existing images generated by image-boostrap, you can find daily fresh ones at [2] for download. I can also recommend signing up for the closed beta of CloudScale [3], if you do not have access to an OpenStack setup by yourself.

Thanks for your time. Best,



Sebastian


[1] https://github.com/hartwork/image-bootstrap
[2] http://linuximages.de/openstack/arch/
[3] https://www.cloudscale.ch/
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Monday, 28 November 2022, 06:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  See comments
Comment by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Wednesday, 09 November 2016, 20:23 GMT
While I understand the motivation, and I even get paid for working on OpenStack, I don't really see this us our responsibility.

It should be probably discussed with Gerardo and Pierre as they are responsible for release engineering AFAIK.
Comment by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Thursday, 01 June 2017, 15:47 GMT
Heyho,
This is interesting. I have worked on vagrant images and it is possible to generate openstack images with hashicorps packer too. I will have a look at this.
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Monday, 28 November 2022, 06:43 GMT
Arch now provides official cloud images via the "arch-boxes" project [1]

[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-boxes

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