On Apr 25, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Dave Scott <dave.sc...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 25 Apr 2014, at 17:41, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Thanks for the congratulations! Looking forward to putting more time >> into Cloudstack. >> >> My project in brief involves re-creating devcloud using vagrant and >> provisioning them with puppet. There's a full proposal at >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/imduffy15/5662278724616192 >> for anybody interested. > > I think this will be really good! > >> I've started doing a small amount of work on it. As stated in the >> proposal I'm going to be using xenserver. I read up on doing >> unattended installations with xenserver and created a packerfile for >> creating the box file https://github.com/imduffy15/packer-xenserver > > By coincidence Jon Ludlam (cc:d) and I have started working on something > similar — maybe we can collaborate. Our goal was to be able to create vagrant > definitions (or similar) that we could glue together like lego, to make > development environments with (e.g.) multiple xenservers to test migration > and environments with both xen and kvm to test interop, while being able to > run the management server locally for ease of debugging… well that’s the > dream anyway :-) > > Jon created a xenserver-6.2-sp1 vagrant box (manually) and uploaded it to > vagrant cloud: > > https://vagrantcloud.com/jonludlam/xenserver-6.2-sp1 > > (It looks like your packerfile should cleanly automate the production of this > — is that right?) > > I created a very simple ‘infrastructure’ VM which contains mysql, NFS for > primary and secondary and NAT/DNSMASQ so it can act as the gateway for the > nested guests: > > https://github.com/djs55/cloudstack-dev-vms/tree/master/cloudstack-infrastructure > > and I customised Jon’s box to switch to bridge, fiddle with networking > settings etc: > > https://github.com/djs55/cloudstack-dev-vms/tree/master/xenserver-6.2 @Dave, this is a bit strange. I am pretty sure CloudStack works with OVS on XS because that's how we do the GRE tunnels for the native SDN controller. > > and I’ve got a marvin/deployDatacenter config: > > https://github.com/djs55/cloudstack-dev-vms/blob/master/datacenter.cfg > > Using virtualbox on OSX I can ‘vagrant up’ the infrastructure VM, ‘vagrant > up’ the xenserver and then run the management server locally… just about. > There are still lots of rough edges like > > 1. I think I need to do something to ensure the management server uses a > sensible IP address; since I’m running it on the host for ease of > development, there are about 10 different IPs it could choose in your config file you should be able to define an IP for the mgt server that is on the same host only network as the VMs. > > 2. When switching between cloudstack branches I need to download a matching > system VM template. I was wondering if I could auto-download the right > template directly into NFS secondary storage on the infrastructure VM. I keep > forgetting to do this and it’s very annoying! Don't know about this one. You can pressed the templates for sure, but if you are trying to switch from cloudstack release branches to another 4.1 to 4.3 for instance, this may mess up your install anyway. It would be good to cache the various ssvm locally, where you can fetch them faster. > > 3. I don’t know how best to spawn multiple xenservers, manage their IPs, add > them to the cloud etc. As Ian said (if I understand your question properly) you can just use "multi-machines" support in vagrant > The deployDatacenter .json format seems to be being actively developed, so > now the one in the repo only works with cloudstack/master. Maybe this is > where puppet comes in? Marvin is being actively refactored in the marvin-refactor branch, there is a merge called on it, but it has not happened yet. > > Plus of course to test KVM we need a hypervisor supported by vagrant and > which supports nested virt which probably means supporting running also on a > KVM host. So far our Vagrantfiles and boxes are virtualbox-specific. I went on the dark side for this and bought vmware workstation :) But I agree that the vagrant recipes should have a switch to allow us to go from XS to KVM. > > Cheers, > Dave > >> >> On 23 April 2014 11:24, Rajesh Battala <rajesh.batt...@citrix.com> wrote: >>> Congrats Ian, Darren and Seif! >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:43 AM >>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>> Cc: Ian Duffy; Darren Brogan; Seif Eddine Jemli >>> Subject: [GSOC2014] Acceptance of three projects for CloudStack >>> >>> I am pleased to announce the acceptance of three google summer of code >>> projects for Apache CloudStack in summer 2014. >>> >>> Our three students are: >>> >>> -Ian Duffy (back for one more round), who will work on a >>> vagrant/puppet/travis configuration to improve on devcloud. >>> -Darren Brogam, who will improve the GCE and AWS interfaces (that has he >>> has co-authored) -Seif Eddine Jemli, who will develop a new UI for Primary >>> Storage plug-ins >>> >>> Mike Tutkowski will mentor Seif, while I will mentor Ian and Darren. >>> >>> Join me in congratulating our three stars of gsoc 2014 ! >>> >>> -Sebastien >
