Excerpts from Nick Coghlan's message of 2013-01-16 11:11:05 +1000: > - Retained explicit mention of Beah (now as a separate trailing > paragraph), as I want to start down the path to supporting other test > execution frameworks like STAF and autotest (as mentioned in Dan's > email last year about defining a harness API). Actually making that > happen is going to require that we draw a sharper distinction between > Beaker-the-lab-management-tool and > Beah-the-task-execution-environment, and the blurb is an easy place to > start that process.
I think this is a false distinction, or not the right distinction anyway... Beah does not define the task execution environment, RHTS does. Beah just provides an RHTS-compatible environment (by literally emulating RHTS). > ================================ > With Beaker, users and administrators can: > - Manage systems across multiple labs > - Maintain an automated inventory of system hardware details > - Provision task execution environments on systems > - Schedule tasks to run on one or more systems > - Store and view task results > > By focusing on different aspects of the service, Beaker can be used as a: > - test automation framework > - searchable machine inventory > - system provisioning engine > - task scheduler > - hardware lab management tool. > > Beaker currently supports Anaconda and RPM-based Linux distributions, > including Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It supports a wide > variety of > hardware platforms, and can integrate with oVirt Engine for > dynamic VM provisioning. Sounds good, I like this para now. > Tasks are defined using the Beah task execution framework, a component > of Beaker. Same as above, this is not really true... beah is not involved at all in defining tasks, beah just happens to be the thing we use to run RHTS-formatted tasks. -- Dan Callaghan <dcall...@redhat.com> Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering and Development Red Hat, Inc.
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