Jesse, thanks for the information! I will look into this. The proxy server and local repo option might just work for us.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:53 AM Jesse Pretorius <jesse.pretor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 September 2015 at 05:36, Weidong Shao <weidongs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Compass, an openstack deployment project, is in process of using osad >> project in the openstack deployment. We need to support a use case where >> there is no Internet connection. The way we handle this is to split the >> deployment into "build" and "install" phase. In Build phase, the Compass >> server node can have Internet connection and can build local repo and other >> necessary dynamic artifacts that requires Internet connection. In "install" >> phase, the to-be-installed nodes do not have Internet connection, and they >> only download necessary data from Compass server and other services >> constructed in Build phase. >> >> Now, is "offline install" something that OSAD project shall also support? >> If yes, what is the scope of work for any changes, if required. >> > > Currently we don't have a offline install paradigm - but that doesn't mean > that we couldn't shift things around to support it if it makes sense. I > think this is something that we could discuss via the ML, via a spec > review, or at the summit. > > Some notes which may be useful: > > 1. We have support for the use of a proxy server [1]. > 2. As you probably already know, we build the python wheels for the > environment on the repo-server - so all python wheel installs (except > tempest venv requirements) are done directly from the repo server. > 3. All apt-key and apt-get actions are done against online repositories. > If you wish to have these be done online then there would need to be an > addition of some sort of apt-key and apt package mirror which we currently > do not have. If there is a local repo in the environment, the functionality > to direct all apt-key and apt-get install actions against an internal > mirror is all there. > > [1] > http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-ansible/commit/?id=ed7f78ea5689769b3a5e1db444f4c16f3cc06060 > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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