On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > As Joep said this "...will reduce the effort to take any (set of ) changes > from development into production." Take it one step further: when your cluster > is 'assembled' you need to validate it (on top of a concrete OS, etc.); is it > desirable to follow N-steps process to bring about whatever testing work-load > you need or you'd prefer to simply do something like: > > wget http://workloads.internal.mydomain.com/stackValidations/v12.4.pom \ > && mvn verify > > and check the results later on?
We need a definition of what 'validate' means. Is it "does stuff run"? In practice, that's useless. Even horribly misconfigured grids can usually run something at least once.