Hi, We think one issue with current CloudStack repositories and hosting locations are that they are not very informative about what tag/commit was used to build the deb/rpms, systemvmtemplate etc and if they are oss or non-oss/noredist or if they were patched or built out of official CloudStack releases, and they may not host all the artifacts (templates, debs, rpms) since 4.0.
ShapeBlue has a product patching service for their customers so we invested some time in last few weeks to build the infrastructure to solve these issues. To host this publicly for everyone (and yes including the patch repositories, since we try to do most of our work upstream and share our branches publicly https://github.com/shapeblue/cloudstack), we’re working on having a dedicated site/page that holds release notes and relevant information of all the things that we’ll host. The infrastructure is reliable and pretty fast, soon we’ll be able to add more nodes in other geographic locations and make it public. On 14-Oct-2014, at 3:43 pm, Leo Simons <lsim...@schubergphilis.com> wrote: > On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Erik Weber <terbol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not familiar with Apache policies in this regard, but is there any way >> we could establish a set of official / supported mirrors that all answer on >> the same DNS address? >> I.e. so that we only have to document one url > > Typically the mirroring people use 302 redirects rather than DNS magic. > > Basically, to do it right, I think we should choose one route of > > 1. use existing apache mirror infrastructure > * discuss with infrastructure@ the sanity of hosting systemvms on the > existing mirrors, if ok, @see > http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html > http://people.apache.org/~bodewig/mirror.html > http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html > http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages > * release systemvms as actual/official apache artifacts > * create a custom version of dyn.cgi/download.cgi if/as needed > * update scripts to point at that CGI, i.e. > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/cloudstack/releases/4.4.1/systemvm/systemvm-4.4.1.xen.bz2 > > 2. use existing sourceforge mirror infrastructure > * release systemvms as semi-official binaries built from apache source > * create a project on sourceforge > * use the sourceforge mirror infrastructure > * example of apache project doing this > http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html > http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/ > * update scripts to point at that magic, i.e. > curl -o systemvm-4.4.1.xen.bz2 -L > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloudstack.mirror/files/4.4.1/systemvm/systemvm-4.4.1.xen.bz2/download > * tell infrastructure@ we are doing this just so they’re aware of the need > and how we addressed it > > The problem with using the apache mirrors is that traditionally apache > promises to keep the total repo somewhat size-limited. Lot of sites mirror > apache (and fsf) because its 50GB or so, as opposed to the 100s of GBs you > need to be a source forge or linux mirror. > > The OpenOffice approach is interesting because before becoming an apache > project they had huge mirror infrastructure (built with mirrorbrain), some of > which actually migrated to apache hardware IIRC with quite a bit of invested > effort, but now it seems they abandoned that, and are just using sourceforge. > So I suggest learning their lessons and doing the same. > > All the people around the world providing mirroring for open source projects > will probably appreciate not having another thing to configure :) > > > cheers, > > > Leo > Regards, Rohit Yadav Software Architect, ShapeBlue M. +91 88 262 30892 | rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com Blog: bhaisaab.org | Twitter: @_bhaisaab Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related services IaaS Cloud Design & Build<http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> CSForge – rapid IaaS deployment framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> CloudStack Infrastructure Support<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> CloudStack Bootcamp Training Courses<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is a company incorporated in India and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. Shape Blue Brasil Consultoria Ltda is a company incorporated in Brasil and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue SA Pty Ltd is a company registered by The Republic of South Africa and is traded under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.
