[Rdo-list] GSoC Cloud in a Box

[Hugh O. Brock]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:28:53AM +0200, sad man wrote:
> Hello, I am working with  Rich Bowen on the Project "Cloud in a Box
> <http://wiki.centos.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas#head-30d3148cc4d19d0404b6afc17857880256b34037>"
> the main idea is to address the "cloud deployment" convenience problem by
> providing an ISO/image file that installs OpenStack (our choice for cloud)
> along with OS.
> 
> RB told me that I can ask for some help regarding my project here and I
> believe there may be some people who have an idea of the background from
> which this idea originated, and help me refine my design.
> 
> ​My understanding is to provide a single node openstack system based on
> CentOS. For developing this idea my current design is to develop an
> extension in Anaconda that robustly installs OpenStack​ (as per my search
> up-till now there are no mainstream linux distros that provide
> pre-installed OpenStack except for Ubuntu 15
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes> maybe). Currently I am
> exploring anaconda source to achieve this and also delving into Ubuntu 15's
> installer for some pointers.
> 
> I would be grateful if you guys can help me in anyway:
> 1. Help refine the design/technologies, (maybe there is a motivation that I
> am unaware of that I should address in my design)
> 2. Help with anaconda's development (entry/exit points). They have a pretty
> good source documentation wiki but I am confused on where should my
> extension go.

Hi Asad. Would you not just use PackStack for this?
https://www.rdoproject.org/Quickstart

Take care,
--Hugh

> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> Asad

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== Hugh Brock, hbrock at redhat.com                                   ==
== Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering                   ==
== RDO Manager: Install, configure, and scale OpenStack            ==
== http://rdoproject.org                                           ==

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