[ec2-beta] Tasksel and creating Ubuntu-EC2 specific tasks

[Chuck Short]

On 12:26 Thu 22 Jan     , Joel Natividad wrote:
> Hi Team,I went on a bit about landscape integration in a previous post (
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/private/ec2-beta/2009-January/000144.html).
> 
> 
> What got me started was the message about using landscape when "tasksel
> --section server" finished.  I was tres intrigued and started digging.
> 
> Of course, now I realize that its just a "generic" message for the server
> tasksel and it wasn't explicitly put in firstlogin.sh for the Ubuntu-EC2
> image.
> 
> Still, Canonical might want to think about creating some Ubuntu-EC2 specific
> tasks that's only installed on the EC2 AMIs.
> 
> If some EC2-smarts is incorporated into landscape, several tasks come to
> mind:
>  - EC2 LAMP with EBS (preloaded with LAMP, landscape client and EBS vol
> taken from a pregenned EBS snapshot for apache logs and mysql data)
>  - EC2 render node (preloaded with Blender, landscape client, etc.)
>  - EC2 bio-grid node (preloaded with stuff like BLAST, bioperl, landscape
> client, etc.)


There is a possibility of this happening but I dont know how important 
this is to the community.


> I'm really convinced this is one way to light the fire for wider landscape
> adoption and increased Ubuntu Enterprise penetration in general.
> 
> Just my 2 cents,
> Joel
> 
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