Two things:

• The upstream Trove images are built with Ubuntu. Should we just use those, or do we want to build custom images to retain Debian purity
  • Keeping in mind that we are dangerously close to being able to use stock upstream images for our standard cloud-vps VMs, so committing to custom trove builds would mean keeping all of those processes (and bootstrap-vz?) alive.

• In version Train, Trove guest images use locally-hosted databases. Starting in version V, the guest images wrap the database in docker. That means that starting with V there is only a single base image needed, which makes upgrades and maintenance more straightforward. Is it worth waiting for V so that we can start out doing this the simpler way?