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Cloud Computing with Debian and its descendants
This page summarises on what to expect from Debian when it comes to compute clouds. Please refer to Wikipedia or other sources for details about what clouds are about. The idea is that you get virtual instances of some self-assembled or off-shelf booting disk image. You start them, pay for their lifetime (likely), pay for the data that goes in or out, and stop them again.
Our fine distribution can play any role in here. It can
- run as a cloud OS
- run the infrastructure that runs the clouds
- run as the joe the plumber's regular desktop OS that contacts the cloud infrastructure with requests to control the clouds
What cloud software are already available in Debian
There's 2 big cloud computing suites that are available in Debian: OpenStack and XCP (Xen Cloud Platform). None of them are available in Debian Stable (Squeeze, at the time of writing), but they work pretty well in SID/Wheezy.
See each page for more details :
How to contribute
Join the Debian Cloud team or the mailing lists:
pkg-xen-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org (which is also the one for XenAPI / XCP)
Grab the sources in the /git/openstack or /git/pkg-xen on Alioth.
Note that, especially OpenStack, is BIG. We already have more than 50 binary packages of it in SID. So of course, we'd be more than happy to have help for its packaging/testing.
Reporting bugs
The Debian Cloud team uses the cloud.debian.org pseudo-package to track issues.
After reporting a bug against a Debian package, which has an impact on Debian images provided on or for clouds, please mark that the bug affects cloud.debian.org.
Bugs are divided in four categories, by usertagging with the address cloud.debian.org@packages.debian.org: image (Machine Images), infrastructure, documentation and package.
Bugs related to the images distributed in public clouds (outdatedness, lack of availability in all zones, etc.) can be usertagged aws (Amazon Web Services) or azure (Microsoft Azure). More names of public clouds can of course be added, please keep the list of control commands below up to date.
The user categories were set up with the following control emails: 20121123012638.GA17190@falafel.plessy.net and 20121123015033.GA3022@falafel.plessy.net.
Where to get more information
Eucalyptus - a free cloud infrastructure with Debian packages pending
euca2ools - free clone of Amazon EC2 console tools
?Cloud/CreateEucalyptusImage - instruction on how to prepare a cloud-ready image
Cloud/TorqueCluster - instruction how to setup a torque cluster within a Eucalyptus cloud
?Cloud/Integration - changes or additions to Debian to prepare and run images using only packaged material.
OpenNebula - toolkit for IaaS cloud handling (with mixed private and public nodes)
opennebula - Debian package for OpenNebula toolkit
Amazon - the EC2 that got the craze going
Cloud/AmazonEC2Image - Registered Amazon Machine Image
- The Net At Large - various howtos that linking Debian with clouds
LinuxConfig.org - how to prepare an image for Amazon's EC2 (see also Cloud/CreateEC2Image)
Windows Azure cloud platform
?Cloud/WindowsAzureImage Using and creating Debian Images on Windows Azure
Google Compute Engine cloud platform
Cloud/GoogleComputeEngineImage Using and creating Debian Images on Google Compute Engine
Who in the Debian community is interested in clouds and why?
Firstly, the extension from providing packages together is to use them together. Thus, the clouds, just like computational grids, may become a way to extend our current way we think about our community. The following groups were observed to show some sincere interest in the cloud technology:
- sharing of administrative burden also for data that needs to be regularly updated
- its Bioinformatics wing sees lots of parallel computing to be performed on clouds
maintains the DebianPureBlends metapackage med-cloud, which can be the base of a Debian bioinformatics machine image.
The RightScale OSS team builds and publishes images for cloud users. For a list of available images, see Cloud/AmazonEC2Image.
FAQ
What is the default login name on the Debian AMIs ?
The default user name is admin. There is no password: log in with SSH and a key pair. It is a privileged account: run sudo -i to become root.
See also
HighPerformanceComputing - wiki page gathering tools for distributed computing which can/should partially be combined with cloud technology
VMBuilder - tool for the creation of virtual machines for Xen, KVM, VirtualBox with the prospect to run them in a cloud
euca2ools - handling of virtual machines for the Eucalyptus and Amazon elastic compute cloud.
Teams/Cloud - The Debian Cloud team.
The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing SP 800-145.