The only thing you'll have to provide is your Puppet classes and an example node definition.
(or Chef, or any other alternative) You'll then just ship the specifications you need in a single file. Consider using Puppet without using the master/agent roles. I'd rather avoid any use of a virtual image altogether for this purpose. Other sysadmins probably already have VMWare or VMWare player or Virtualbox installed. Some may not like having to download separate products to try out your VM. It kind of comes down to a question of what resources you available to you and how savvy your end users are going to be as to how elaborate the requirements you'll impose on the end user just to try out your product. You could even have the images hosted off-site to companies that specialize in hosting large files, so you don't need to worry about content delivery of the large files. Is this likely to be a popular download that can strain your site or tax any transfer limits you have with your provider?ĭepending on how savvy your target audience is, you could also offer it via bittorrent to help alleviate the strain on your network (or if you can make agreements with other sites you can divvy it out to them as seed sites).
How big are the resulting images going to be? Do they compress down at all? Do you have a website? Is this part of a business? Is it a side hobby? What do you mean by best way to do it? If you mean offering it to users, you can always create a CD/DVD and offer it free by mail and/or offer it through a CDN or personal website you don't mention what resources you have available to you.
Personally I'd offer it in Virtualbox and VMWare formats, since Virtualbox is free and VMWare's player is free and well supported and popular.
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