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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:28:04 +0530
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From: Mahendra M <mahendra.m@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lehman <mattlehman84@gmail.com>
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Subject: [dev] Re: Libcloud

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Hi Matt,

Please see inline.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Matt Lehman <mattlehman84@gmail.com>wrote:

>      Unfortunately we've been a bit side tracked lately on another
> project.
>

No problems with that.


> I imagine the connection wrapper you're writing for azure service bus can
> be pushed to common and used for compute.
>

The connection code is already checked in. This was done during the Azure
Blobs implementation (which is already available in libcloud). For SQS, I
have made some changes. You can have a look at the connection wrapper at:

https://github.com/mahendra/libcloud/blob/queues/libcloud/common/azure.py


> We will wait until you merge the service bus and sqs code and then we may
> be able to help with some of the compute stuff. I haven't dug in enough but
> I'm specifically interested to see if azure supports file injection.
> According to open stack it's  supported in hyper-v so there should be a way
> to do it.
>

I haven't looked into the compute stuff for Azure in detail. So, I wouldn't
know that. Will check and let you know.


>     Do you know if there are any plans on adding general
> base functionality in libcloud for supporting true deployment without ssh?
> Most open stack & eucalyptus providers now support this with user-data or
> server personality. I'm hoping it becomes mainstream. The only current
> issue is rackspace doesn't have cloud-init in their base image. You have to
> create your own image. Hopefully more providers will start supporting this
> metadata service as it makes bootstrapping anything a breeze.
>

Maybe Tomaz can answer this question more authoritatively :-)

Regards,
Mahendra

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