From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: Mike Crute <mike@crute.us>, jake buchholz <tomalok@gmail.com>
Cc: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>, ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [3.14] Release process change proposal: Add official Alpine Linux cloud images
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:31:03 GMT

On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 10:05:40 AM MST jake buchholz wrote:
> Hi, I=E2=80=99m Jake, the other main person involved with the =E2=80=9Cal=
pine-ec2-ami=E2=80=9D
> project.  I=E2=80=99d also like to officially join this =E2=80=9COfficial=
ization=E2=80=9D  effort
> (cloud/infra).
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 09:17:06AM +0000, Ariadne Conill wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:26:09 AM MST Natanael Copa wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 02:29:08 GMT Ariadne Conill
> >>> <ariadne@dereferenced.org <mailto:ariadne@dereferenced.org>> wrote:
> >>>=20
> >>> I'd like to have linode on the list early too.
> >>=20
> >> Would linode actually use our image?  My understanding is that linode
> >> prefer to master their own images.>=20
> > Having Linode available would be nice. At a quick glance I don't see
> > anything in their API that supports custom images, though I recall there
> > was some roundabout way to upload them for a single account several yea=
rs
> > ago. We may need to talk to a human on their side to make that happen, =
if
> > anyone has contacts over there. Once we migrate to GitLab I'll throw
> > together issues for each cloud provider we want to support and we can u=
se
> > that as a jumping off point for research and prioritization of support.
> It would appear that Linode does support Packer-built images...
> * https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-use-linode-packer-builder/
> <https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-use-linode-packer-builder/>
>=20
> =E2=80=A6and Packer has a Linode builder=E2=80=A6
> * https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/linode
> <https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/linode>
>=20
> =E2=80=A6so creating Alpine images for Linode (or any other cloud provide=
r that
> Packer supports) should be doable.
>=20
> Having some providers =E2=80=9Cbless=E2=80=9D our images as Official and =
make them publicly
> available will likely involve working with them to make it happen.

I guess what I am saying is, I can go to Linode and create an Alpine VM=20
already.  Why would they use our image over the image they already generate?

Ariadne