FAI going to the cloud

[Andrew Ruthven]

On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 16:27 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> A new beta version of FAI is available. It now includes a new command
> for creating cloud^Wdisk images. fai-diskimage can create a raw or
> qcow2 disk image without starting a virtual machine. This image is
> ready-to-boot for your VM or cloud instance. Currently it has no man
> page, but a help is printed when calling with -h.

Oh, this looks interesting. I was planning on doing something similar
to how we've been using FAI to build Linux-VServers. Use a standard
image, then copy up the FAI config directory and for a fai-softupdate.

> I plan to release FAI 5.2 in september, so any feedback is welcome.

I'll give it a whirl in the new week.

Cheers,
Andrew
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