On 07/08/12 11:21 -0400, Mo Morsi wrote:
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/
I'll reply in more depth later today, but for those wishing to develop
in a vm (which not everyone will want to do, plus you cant really do
it for factory very well, unless you do all snapshot builds, which is
a possibility), I woudl think the thing we should do here is use our
own tooling and build a vm with a tdl, and have oz generate the vm for
us. I had a cut of this already some time back, and it worked pretty
well, though I never got around to additional scripting, which would
ease setup even more.
-j
