[Blueprint servercloud-p-build-marshall] Develop Build Marshal for mutli-cloud AMI deploymentions

[Ben Howard]

Blueprint changed by Ben Howard:

Whiteboard changed:
- [smagoun] This sounds similar to Offspring, which could be easily
- adapted to produce and deploy images to the cloud.
- https://launchpad.net/offspring . Linaro have a public Offspring
- instance here: https://offspring.linaro.org/ . Canonical have an
- internal Offspring instance as well.
+ Rationale: There is significant value to both the community and paid
+ customers in having Canonical own and maintaining images on major cloud-
+ vendors.
+ 
+ Assumptions:
+   * There are literally thousands of public Ubuntu public images; each public image is slightly different and is confusing to customers.
+   * Owning our own images will help to reduce vendor customization and make for a consistent experience across different cloud-vendors.
+   * There will be new major cloud-vendors that will want the official images, or on which we want to publish images. 
+   * The current system was design for publishing images to one vendors in multiple regions
+   * Amazon AWS is growing with new services and new regions, which may stress the current system
+ 
+ 
+ [smagoun] This sounds similar to Offspring, which could be easily adapted to produce and deploy images to the cloud. https://launchpad.net/offspring . Linaro have a public Offspring instance here: https://offspring.linaro.org/ . Canonical have an internal Offspring instance as well.
+ 
+ [utlemming] Thanks Steve for the information about Offspring. The
+ problem that we are facing here is a bit different. We have one build
+ that needs to be pushed out to N cloud vendors using API's or some sane
+ way to do it. If I understand Offspring it is a build wrapper that
+ tracks success or failure.

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Develop Build Marshal for mutli-cloud AMI deploymentions
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-p-build-marshall