The whole ruby platform is running out of steam, high time to move to Packer while moving system VMS to Debian9.
- Satki > On 31-Jul-2017, at 2:41 PM, Paul Angus <paul.an...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > > Depending on the timescales that we looking at, if we can get an agreement to > use Packer going forward, there is an argument to say that spending time > getting the Debian 9 template to work on VeeWee and then on Packer is wasted > effort and that we should just use this as the opportunity to move over to > Packer/Debian9. > > Having spent the weekend fighting with RVM/VeeWee/Ruby. And finding that > we've hard linked rvm to Ruby 2.1.1 when it's now on 2.4, Veewee hasn't been > updated for years and other mismatches. I'm very interested to see other > options explored. > > Veewee doesn't do the disk conversions at them moment, so we can still keep > that a separate process for corner cases that Packer (or something else) > can't manage.. > > Kind regards, > > Paul Angus > > paul.an...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > @shapeblue > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com] > Sent: 28 July 2017 20:30 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Move to Debian9 systemvmtemplate > > I think we can move to packer once we can get the Debian9 based > systemvmtemplate to work. > > I think we should focus on doing this first and then focus on migration to a > new build system as a next step. > > > I spent some time today and with some help from veewee authors, I could get a > base template up and running: > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2211 > > > The above PR branch is pushed on ASF remote and allows for > cross-collaboration with all ACS committers. Please collaborate with me on > this and feel free to push changes on the branch as separate commits and/or > make changes to the PR. Thanks. > > > - Rohit > > ________________________________ > From: Tim Mackey <tmac...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 3:59:36 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Move to Debian9 systemvmtemplate > > Syed, > > I did a bunch of work on XenServer with Packer [1] before leaving Citrix. > My stuff works rather well and was tested with XS 6.2, 6.5 and 7. It > shouldn't be hard to validate with newest XS and updated Packer - I just lack > the infra to do the testing. > > [1] https://github.com/xenserverarmy/packer > > -tim > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue > > > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Syed Ahmed <sah...@cloudops.com> wrote: > >> -1 on Arch as well. Moving to Debian 9 seems the wiser choice IMO. >> I've used Packer before and I really like it, the only downside that I >> see is that Packer lacks support for XenServer VHD images. There is >> some work on a XenServer plugin but I haven't tested that. If the >> community decides to use Packer, I can do some initial validation of it on >> XenServer. >> >> Thanks, >> -Syed >> >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:19 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> >> wrote: >> >>> >>>> Op 24 juli 2017 om 19:07 schreef Rene Moser <m...@renemoser.net>: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Rohit >>>> >>>> >>>> On 07/23/2017 06:08 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote: >>>>> All, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Just want to kick an initial discussion around migration to >>>>> Debian9 >>> based systemvmtemplate, and get your feedback on the same. >>>>> >>>>> Here's a work-in-progress PR: https://github.com/apache/ >>> cloudstack/pull/2198 >>>> >>>> Have you considered to replace veewee by packer? >>>> >>> >>> Packer is really nice indeed. We use it to build our templates [0] >>> which we use on CloudStack. >>> >>> Building the SSVM using Packer should be rather easy I think. >>> >>> [0]: https://github.com/pcextreme/packer-templates >>> >>>> Our friends from schubergphilis have already done some work here >>>> https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/systemvm-packer. >>>> >>>> However there would be also an official way to convert the >>>> definitions https://www.packer.io/guides/veewee-to-packer.html >>>> >>>> Regards René >>> >> >
