Deploying Linux to the Cloud
IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating Linux cloud images
Deploying a cloud image to virt-manager (libvirtd)
Deploying a cloud image to OpenStack
Deploying a cloud image to Amazon EC2
To get a new Linux system to use, instead of just running a standard installation program from a physical DVD, you can get a Linux image and deploy it to a cloud. One way to do that is to take a generic Linux image (one that is bootable but unconfigured) and provide information to configure that image to your needs. Another way is to go to a cloud provider, choose an image, click through selections to configure it, and launch it.
The point is that cloud computing is offering new ways to start up and use Linux systems. In Chapter 26, I had you do a standard Linux installation to create a virtual machine that runs on a Linux hypervisor. In this chapter, I show you how to use cloud images to start up a fresh Linux system.
First, I describe how to use cloud-init to manually combine a Linux cloud image with configuration information, to allow it to run in a variety of environments. Next, I tell how a similar process is done on an OpenStack Cloud or an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), by clicking through easy-to-use cloud controllers to choose images and settings to run the Linux cloud instance you want.
Getting Linux to Run in a Cloud
Cloud platforms are great for spinning up new virtual ...
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