Description of problem: A way to have extensibility of a Standard Operating Environment template while maintaining the benefits of image based provisioning. For example: - User defines templateW - User creates templateX(adds EAP), templateY(adds HTTPD), templateZ(add MySQLD) which inherits templateW properties - User builds images for templateW,X,Y,Z - User launches images. Note that launching images and then having them configured after the fact are not acceptable as it may take too much time (pulling EAP to 500 instances for example). Also Note: Copying and pasting from template to template is not scaleable because as soon as you change one in production, you will have to hunt down and change all of the other templates. Also Note: Configuration (e.g. changing httpd.con) is ok at first boot time, but installing EAP6 is not, because it can take significant time to put 1GB of content on the disk over the network from a repository, especially for multiple systems, but this is true for 1 or 500 systems
We think this will be replaced by the docker work in 6.1, and improved promotion path work. Closing this out for now. If this was incorrect, please feel free to re-open with specific changes to the product. Thansk!