On 08/07/2012 10:23 AM, Jiří Stránský wrote: > Hi guys, > > how do you prepare your development VMs? I've been talking with Mike > yesterday about a possibility of making a tool similar to > aeolus-configure, but for developers. Something to set up development > environment easily. Would anything like this be wanted? > > I was thinking something a bit more rake-style with the whole setup > thing decomposed into tasks. You could run a default scenario task > with the whole stack getting set up or just pick something like `rake > firewall:open_for_conductor` or `rake imagefactory:oauth` etc. > > Then today I saw Maros's kickstart-based solution [1] and I thought > something similar would be even nicer when doing dev env setup on a > VM, because it also takes care of OS installation. > > Mike and Jay also suggested such a tool could be useful for QE, so I > would be pleased to see Dave's and Ronelle's opinions as well. > > So I'm looking for ideas/feedback/anything related to this. First, > whether such thing would be wanted at all, and if so, any suggestions > and ideas how should the tool work. > > I imagine the tool could be useful to contributors outside of Red Hat, > who don't have Aeolus experts sitting in the same office to ask them > about stuff ;) > > Best wishes, > > Jirka > > [1]: https://github.com/hacxman/spawnvm
We used to use appliance-creator [1] to create software-appliances for a bunch of projects but this entailed additional resources during release cycles and thus often would get bumped down in priority / dropped. That being said, I'm all for this. Think pre-built appliances containing the latest versions of the application suite and/or the rake tasks would be useful. -Mo [1] http://thincrust.net/
