#fedora-cloud: Cloudy Docs Sprint

Meeting summary

1. BoxGrinder (rbergeron, 17:13:45)
   1. IDEA: Boxgrinder basics - what it is, how it works, etc. (rbergeron, 17:15:03)
   2. IDEA: Using BoxGrinder to create a Fedora image (rbergeron, 17:15:19)
   3. IDEA: Using the BoxGrinder/Fedora AMI on EC2 to create a Fedora instance on Amazon (rbergeron, 17:15:42)
   4. http://boxgrinder.org/ (rbergeron, 17:16:16)
   5. http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/boxgrinder-build-usage-instructions/ (rbergeron, 17:16:37)
   6. http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/ (rbergeron, 17:16:55)
   7. IDEA: go into some of the details about OS options, platform plugins, delivery plugsins (rbergeron, 17:17:54)
   8. Some of this info may be well-written out already in BG documentation (rbergeron, 17:18:08)
   9. OS plugins - rhel, fedora, centos (various version) (rbergeron, 17:18:48)
   10. Platform plugins - virtualbox, vmware, ec2 (rbergeron, 17:19:04)
   11. Delivery platforms (where it can get delivered AUTOMAGICALLY) - EBS, cloudfront for S3, sftp, ami for s3, local filesystem, s3 for s3 (rbergeron, 17:20:15)
   12. IDEA: Connive spevack into writing up some documentation or something about What All These Different Amazon Things Are (rbergeron, 17:20:33)
   13. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Cloud_Guide/index.html (Sparks, 17:23:12)
   14. BG guys hang in #boxgrinder (rbergeron, 17:23:54)
   
   
2. HekaFS (rbergeron, 17:31:54)
   1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HekaFS (Sparks, 17:33:16)
   2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SimpleHekaFS ksa (kkeithley, 17:33:52)
   3. hekafs is a layer on top of glusterfs (rbergeron, 17:40:59)
   
   
3. OpenStack (rbergeron, 17:45:12)
   1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenStack (rbergeron, 17:47:34)
   2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova (rbergeron, 17:47:53)
   3. OpenSTack has a few individual pieces that we have right now that can be documented individually if we want - Nova, Swift, and Glance (rbergeron, 17:48:36)
   4. Nova is management/UI/deploying of things, Swift is object storage, and Glance is image creation (rbergeron, 17:49:20)
   5. http://docs.openstack.org/ (rbergeron, 17:50:06)
   6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova (gholms, 17:53:11)
   7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova (Sparks, 17:53:42)
   8. openstack getting started guide needs to tell you wheree to get the euca-* commands from (rbergeron, 17:53:44)
   9. IDEA: Having at least some basic info about what is euca2ools might be useful, at least WRT sections on AWS and Nova (rbergeron, 17:56:55)
   10. gholms can answer euca-related questions if needed. (rbergeron, 17:57:38)
   
   
4. Aeolus (rbergeron, 17:57:44)
   1. http://aeolusproject.org/use_it.html (rbergeron, 17:58:11)
   2. Aeolus is made up of a bunch of different pieces - Audrey, Conductor, Configure, ImageFactory, Image Warehouse, Oz, Spherical. (rbergeron, 17:58:46)
   3. Pieces of Aeolus used in Fedora are Conductor, Configure, ImageFactory, Image Warehouse, Oz. (rbergeron, 18:03:08)
   4. OZ Documentation - http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html (rbergeron, 18:05:16)
   5. jclift (justin clift, aeolus comm. mgr) is probably the right person to ask. (rbergeron, 18:05:49)
   
   
5. Sheepdog (rbergeron, 18:07:26)
   1. http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/ (rbergeron, 18:07:48)
   2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sheepdog (rbergeron, 18:08:07)
   3. https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/wiki (rbergeron, 18:08:33)
   4. https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/wiki/Getting-Started (rbergeron, 18:09:11)
   
   
6. Anything else? (rbergeron, 18:10:40)
   1. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Cloud_Guide/index.html (rbergeron, 18:13:45)
   2. http://matahariproject.org/manual/ (russellb, 18:14:44)
   3. http://matahariproject.org/manual/ (Sparks, 18:14:53)
   4. Matahari would be good for "tools you can use to manage fedora systems deployed in a cloud" (rbergeron, 18:15:00)
   5. Still outstanding - need info from Ian Main (slower on irc) re: condor cloud (rbergeron, 18:18:34)
   
   
7. How to get Fedora for use on EC2 (rbergeron, 18:19:13)
   1. We have AMIs for Fedora (knock on wood) published to EC2. (rbergeron, 18:20:45)
   2. IDEA: How do we find them, where do we get the information? (rbergeron, 18:20:55)
   3. IDEA: How do I get a vm started, what can i use it for, what are all these various AWS services (rbergeron, 18:21:32)
   4. IDEA: Troll Max Spevack at all possible opportunities (rbergeron, 18:21:55)

Action items

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