List of differences between standard and cloud systems
The goal of this page is to list the differences, and organize which and how to resolve them. Here, standard refers to Debian systems installed with DebianInstaller with the default settings, following the instructions in https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual.
Distribution Binary images
- AWS, Azure and GCE images are available on the respective public clouds.
|
Debian CD (standard image) |
KVM |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
Openstack |
Oracle |
Tool for generating images |
openstack-debian-images and FAI |
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Archive components available by default |
main |
main |
main |
main |
main |
main |
main |
Images available for Debian releases (suites) |
stable |
stable |
stable |
stable1 |
stable, testing |
stable, testing |
stable |
Kernel |
default |
cloud |
cloud |
cloud |
cloud |
both (2 flavors) |
custom |
Installed packages (default image) |
packages with priority important (debootstrap and higher (plus user choice if any [tasksel]) |
cloud-init |
cloud-init, |
waagent |
google-compute-engine |
unknown |
unknown |
Packages installed from outside of Debian archive |
none |
none |
none |
none |
see2 |
none |
unknown |
Default system account |
none |
debian3 |
admin |
debian |
none4 |
debian |
opc |
Images description schema |
debian-<release version>-<architecture>-<CD number|desktop configuration>.iso |
debian-<release version>-genericcloud-<architecture>.[iso|qcow2|raw|tar.xz] |
379101102735 5/debian-<codename>-<architecture>-<YYYYMMDD> |
unkown |
debian-<release version>-<codename>-v<YYYYMMDD> |
debian-<release version>-<YYYYMMDD>-openstack-<arch>.qcow2 |
unknown |
CategoryVirtualization | CategorySystemAdministration
Discussions are under way (independently for DebianInstaller and cloud images) to list stable backports by default (installation of backport packages will still be manual, but updates become automatic) (1)
/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg from cloud-init has default_user: {name: debian, lock_passwd: True} so you must use cloud-init to set up a user (3)
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages (4)
AMI owner AWS account ID see on Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Marketplace (5)