Re: Any interest in a Amazon AMI for Wonder?
Re: Any interest in a Amazon AMI for Wonder?
- Subject: Re: Any interest in a Amazon AMI for Wonder?
- From: Paul Hoadley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:33:23 +1030
Hi Pascal,
On 11/01/2013, at 1:40 AM, Pascal Robert <email@hidden> wrote:
> I was wondering if we should build a public AMI (template) on Amazon EC2 that would contains:
>
> - CentOS 6.x
> - The Yum repository for wotaskd/Monitor/the adaptor
> - RPMForge Yum repository (useful to install software not available from the main CentOS repo)
> - Postgresql's Yum repository
> - Jenkins's Yum repository
I would suggest that you don't invest the time doing this, and here's why. Freezing an AMI like this involves a load of arbitrary decisions (e.g., Why CentOS instead of Amazon Linux? Why PostgreSQL instead of MySQL?). At each decision, you're carving off a segment of potential users from a base that must already be incredibly small. Say there's still some interest left, though—who is going to keep this current? When a security vulnerability is patched in CentOS, are you going to re-roll this? (All these questions are rhetorical, by the way!) The most likely scenario is that in 18 months we've got a repeat of WOlastic on our hands—when that went stale, it took time and effort to kill off, and I haven't checked lately but I think the AMI itself is _still_ available, though the website is dead.
Having said all that, if I haven't discouraged you and you're really keen, I can certainly help you do it. :-)
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Paul Hoadley
http://logicsquad.net/
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