Hi Akila,

Why don't we use Docker as a platform rather than a vm_type? I'm not sure
about Rocket, however if there are no considerable data duplication between
Docker and a possible Rocket configuration data set, IMO we should keep the
hierarchy simple and include Docker as a platform. WDYT?


Regards,
Chamila de Alwis
Committer and PMC Member - Apache Stratos
Software Engineer | WSO2 | +94772207163
Blog: code.chamiladealwis.com



On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Akila Ravihansa Perera <raviha...@wso2.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems "vm_type" hierarchy should exist to build Docker images
> (provisioned via Puppet) and then run on bare Docker. Because when building
> the images for default platform (which is the option for bare Docker),
> there should be a separate hierarchy to set the installation_dir parameter
> to "/mnt".
>
> I think it makes sense to have a separate hierarchy to control the
> configuration data for containers or VMs since that is one layer below the
> platform level in a deployment infrastructure. For eg: we can have a
> Kubernetes platform with Docker as the container technology OR it could be
> even Rocket. Inside this whatever vm_type we can have any base operating
> system running. So I've refined the hierarchy as follows;
>
> :hierarchy:
>     - "node/%{::clientcert}"
>     - 
> "wso2/%{::product_name}/%{::product_version}/%{::platform}/%{::product_profile}"
>     - "wso2/%{::product_name}/%{::product_version}/%{::platform}/default"
>     - "osfamily/%{::osfamily}"
>     - "vm_type/%{::vm_type}"
>     - "platform/%{::platform}"
>     - wso2/common
>     - common
> :backends:
>     - yaml
> :yaml:
>     :datadir: "hieradata/%{::environment}"
>
> Since "wso2/common" and "common" are static hierarchies, those should be
> moved to the bottom. Please raise any concerns you may have with this
> hierarchy.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Chamila De Alwis <chami...@wso2.com>
> wrote:
>
>> +1, IMO that's better since now it's clear how what kubernetes.yaml
>> stands for.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chamila de Alwis
>> Committer and PMC Member - Apache Stratos
>> Software Engineer | WSO2 | +94772207163
>> Blog: code.chamiladealwis.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Akila Ravihansa Perera <
>> raviha...@wso2.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Chamila,
>>>
>>> Agreed. I don't think there would be anymore files in addition to
>>> common.yaml here. How about moving this to root level; for eg:
>>> "platform/kubernetes.yaml" ?
>>>
>>> Full Hierarchy will be as follows;
>>>
>>> :hierarchy:
>>>     - "node/%{::clientcert}"
>>>     - 
>>> "wso2/%{::product_name}/%{::product_version}/%{::platform}/%{::product_profile}"
>>>     - "wso2/%{::product_name}/%{::product_version}/%{::platform}/default"
>>>     - "platform/%{::platform}"
>>>     - "osfamily/%{::osfamily}"
>>>     - wso2/common
>>>     - common
>>> :backends:
>>>     - yaml
>>> :yaml:
>>>     :datadir: "hieradata/%{::environment}"
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Chamila De Alwis <chami...@wso2.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> How about wso2/kubernetes.yaml instead of wso2/kubernetes/common.yaml?
>>>> Will there be a YAML file in addition to the common.yaml?
>>>>
>>>> - "wso2/%{::platform}"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Chamila de Alwis
>>>> Committer and PMC Member - Apache Stratos
>>>> Software Engineer | WSO2 | +94772207163
>>>> Blog: code.chamiladealwis.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Akila Ravihansa Perera <
>>>> raviha...@wso2.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> We recently introduced a facter named "platform" to denote a PaaS
>>>>> framework or cluster management system on which WSO2 products could be
>>>>> deployed. With this addition I feel there is no reason to keep -
>>>>> "vm_type/%{::vm_type}" hierarchy. Also we need to way to introduce
>>>>> configuration parameters that is common across all the products for a
>>>>> specific platform.
>>>>>
>>>>> For eg: In Kubernetes platform, we need to copy the Kubernetes
>>>>> membership scheme and related dependency jars for all the products. Also 
>>>>> we
>>>>> need to set the installation dir to "/mnt" (instead of "/mnt/%{ipaddress}"
>>>>> because ipaddress is not available at the image build time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Therefore I'd like to propose that we include the
>>>>> "wso2/%{platform}/common" to the hierarchy. Full hiera.yaml would look 
>>>>> like
>>>>> this;
>>>>>
>>>>> :hierarchy:
>>>>>     - "node/%{::clientcert}"
>>>>>     - 
>>>>> "wso2/%{::product_name}/%{::product_version}/%{::platform}/%{::product_profile}"
>>>>>     - "wso2/%{::product_name}/%{::product_version}/%{::platform}/default"
>>>>>     - "wso2/%{::platform}/common"
>>>>>     - wso2/common
>>>>>     - "osfamily/%{::osfamily}"
>>>>>     - common
>>>>> :backends:
>>>>>     - yaml
>>>>> :yaml:
>>>>>     :datadir: "hieradata/%{::environment}"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Akila Ravihansa Perera
>>>>> WSO2 Inc.;  http://wso2.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> Blog: http://ravihansa3000.blogspot.com
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Akila Ravihansa Perera
>>> WSO2 Inc.;  http://wso2.com/
>>>
>>> Blog: http://ravihansa3000.blogspot.com
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Akila Ravihansa Perera
> WSO2 Inc.;  http://wso2.com/
>
> Blog: http://ravihansa3000.blogspot.com
>
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