pages tagged cloudfaibloghttp://blog.fai-project.org/tags/cloud/faiblogikiwiki2016-12-12T16:49:34ZTwo months full of FAI workhttp://blog.fai-project.org/posts/FAI_5.3.2/2016-12-12T16:49:34Z2016-12-12T16:47:02Z
<p>The last months were filled with a lot of FAI work.
After the release that supports the creation of disk images, I
attended the <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2016/DebianCloudNov2016">Debian cloud sprint</a> in
Seattle. During the sprint, we've looked at some image creation
tools and I gave a short demo of the new fai-diskimage command.
We've decided to evaluate FAI for creating official Debian
cloud images!</p>
<p>We've created the FAI configuration for GCE images during the sprint
and Sam has now moved his own setup from vmdebootstrap to FAI
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2016/11/msg00110.html">report</a>.</p>
<p>A few weeks ago, I gave a FAI training in cologne for a customer. The
participants really loved FAI and they will use it for CentOS,
OpenSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu because FAI perfectly fits into their needs
Giving this training was a pleasure for me because the participants
were really good and they've learned everything about FAI.</p>
<p>Later, I wrote some new code for detecting unknown packages
names for the command install_packages, which is needed because
aptiude does not handle this <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/835372">any more</a>.</p>
<p>I've finally released the new version FAI 5.3.2 and also created new
ISO images which are now available at <a href="http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/">http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/</a>.</p>
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FAI 5.2 is going to the cloudhttp://blog.fai-project.org/posts/FAI_5.2_is_going_to_the_cloud/2016-10-18T11:23:11Z2016-10-18T11:23:11Z
<p>The <a href="https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2016-October/011549.html">newest version</a> of <a href="http://fai-project.org">FAI</a>, the Fully
Automatic Installation tool set, now supports creating disk images for
virtual machines or for your cloud environment.</p>
<p>The new command
<a href="http://fai-project.org/doc/man/fai-diskimage.html">fai-diskimage</a>
uses the normal FAI process for building disk images of different
formats. An image with a small set of packages can be created in less
than <a href="http://fai-project.org/logs/fai-diskimage.log">50 seconds</a>, a
Debian XFCE desktop in nearly two minutes and a complete Ubuntu 16.04
desktop image is created in four minutes.</p>
<p>New FAI installation images for CD and USB stick are also
<a href="http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/">available</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: Add link to <a href="https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2016-October/011549.html">announcement</a></p>
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