Cloud Computing: Google Compute Engine Switches to Debian
May 12, 2013
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Todd Weiss.
Google’s Compute Engine is moving to Debian as its default operating system after a round of recent enhancements to Debian, including improved 32/64-bit compatibility. "Today we’re adding Debian images for Google Compute Engine," wrote Jimmy Kaplowitz, site reliability engineer and Debian developer for the project in a May 8 post on the Google App Engine Blog. "Debian, in collaboration with us, is providing images for both Debian 7.0 ‘wheezy’ and the previous stable release, Debian 6.0 ‘squeeze.’ This support will make it easy for anyone using Debian today to migrate their workloads onto Compute Engine."
The Debian community just released Debian 7.0 "wheezy," which "brings big improvements, including hardened security, improved 32/64-bit compatibility and addresses a lot of community feedback," wrote Kaplowitz. "For fast performance and to reduce bandwidth costs, Google is hosting a Debian package mirror for use by Google Compute Engine Debian instances. We’ve updated our docs and will support Debian via our usual support options, or you can also check out what Debian offers."…
More changes could potentially come in the future, he wrote. "We are continually evaluating other operating systems that we can enable with Compute Engine. However, going forward, Debian will be the default image type for Compute Engine. We look forward to hearing your feedback."
The project had been using custom versions of CentOS and Ubuntu Linux, according to Google’s documentation…
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