On Jun 24, 2014, at 12:13 AM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > At the end of this week (27th) we will be at the mid term evaluation stage > of the Google Summer of code programme. > > It has been great working with the Cloudstack Community again. I'm very > happy with the progress I've been making on my project and the feedback > I've received from community members. ( > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/imduffy15/5662278724616192 > ) > > At the moment I've essentially re-created a new devcloud environment using > vagrant and chef. Full details of this can be found over on my projects > github repo: https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014
thanks for the added readme info. I did try it and works without problems for me. > > This week I extended my current setup to introduce more network cards to > the Hypervisor and "Management Server" This allows for deploying an > advanced zone. The networking looks something like this: > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqtBYwiIcAAX_7d.jpg:large > > If anybody is interested in giving it a go the project page ( > https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014) contains full instructions. > > I had an issue with the default ttylinux template supplied. It has hard > coded DNS servers within its resolv.conf which take precedence. > > For this reason I created a debian template. The template is fully > reproducible using packer https://github.com/imduffy15/cloudstack-templates > it exports as a OVA and you can then use qemu / vhd-util to convert it > whatever way you want. I have uploaded one for XenServer > https://github.com/imduffy15/cloudstack-templates/releases > > I think it would be neat if the community extended on something like this > to offer templates for all major linux operating systems. In order to > subvert security concerns it would be nice if a CI automatically > generated/uploaded the images (Something like what we do with the SystemVMs) > Maybe open a separate [DISCUSS] thread > I've started work on extending the "management" VM to be a self contained > simulator. I have completed some work on my cloudstack cookbook for > installing all development dependencies so it should just be a case of git > cloning from some attribute and building based on attribute parameters. > > All feedback welcome! > > Ian
