--- title: News from the Debian Cloud Team | daily.dev description: The Debian Cloud Team shares progress made during the Debian 10 (Buster) development cycle. Key updates include the official formation of the team with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/news-from-the-debian-cloud-team-gl2ahphol twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: News from the Debian Cloud Team | daily.dev og:description: The Debian Cloud Team shares progress made during the Debian 10 (Buster) development cycle. Key updates include the official formation of the team with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/news-from-the-debian-cloud-team-gl2ahphol og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gl2AHpHol.png og:image:alt: News from the Debian Cloud Team og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # News from the Debian Cloud Team **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Debian Cloud Team shares progress made during the Debian 10 (Buster) development cycle. Key updates include the official formation of the team with appointed Delegates, a new Python-based framework for publishing images to Azure, AWS, and GCE, migration to GitLab CI on salsa.debian.org for automated image builds and smoke testing, new cloud-optimized packages (linux-image-cloud, grub-cloud, google-compute-image-packages), Secure Boot support coming in Debian 10, expanded architecture support (arm64, ppc64el), and a proposed GSoC project for a cloud image finder web app. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the linux-image-cloud package in Debian and what does it do differently from the standard kernel? linux-image-cloud is a cloud-specific Linux kernel package introduced to the Debian archive that disables features irrelevant in cloud environments (such as Bluetooth and sound support) and enables drivers needed by cloud providers. For example, it enables Amazon EC2's Elastic Network Adapter (ENA), Intel 82599 Ethernet Controller Virtual Function, and Microsoft Azure's Mellanox ConnectX-3 Virtual Function by default. _Developers managing Debian cloud deployments track kernel and image changes like these on daily.dev._ ### Why couldn't Debian build official Google Compute Engine images before Debian 10? Debian could not build official GCE images because GCE requires a Google-developed guest agent, and that agent was not available in the Debian main archive. Official Debian images must use only packages from the main archive. The google-compute-image-packages package was introduced to the Debian archive to resolve this, unblocking official GCE image production for Debian 10 Buster. _Teams running Debian on GCE can follow packaging and image updates like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Debian -- News -- Updated Debian 13: 13.6 released](https://daily.dev/posts/debian----news----updated-debian-13-13-6-released-p0hbj7zk0) · Debian · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [FOSS Weekly \#26.36: Debian CERN Win, Faster Firefox, Free Bash Course, Grub Customization and More Linux Stuff](https://daily.dev/posts/foss-weekly-26-36-debian-cern-win-faster-firefox-free-bash-course-grub-customization-and-more-l-ckddhffkq) · It's Foss · 13 upvotes · 1 comments - [Debian's tag2upload Reaches GA For Improving Packaging Workflow](https://daily.dev/posts/debian-s-tag2upload-reaches-ga-for-improving-packaging-workflow-bowfa8k9y) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#gitlab-ci](https://daily.dev/tags/gitlab-ci) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/news-from-the-debian-cloud-team-gl2ahphol) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"News from the Debian Cloud Team","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/news-from-the-debian-cloud-team-gl2ahphol","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/news-from-the-debian-cloud-team-gl2ahphol"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:57:14.354Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:39:20.897Z","description":"The Debian Cloud Team shares progress made during the Debian 10 (Buster) development cycle. 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