Distributing Remote Agents
In the same way that the KVM agent is packaged for distribution, an installer is required for the Hyper-V agent. The open-source candidate for creating this installer is WiX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX) While open-source, it's not clear that WiX works or runs in an environment other than Windows. Does this mean that the installer should be in a separate repo? From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:donal.laffe...@citrix.com] Sent: 02 January 2014 16:43 To: Paul Angus; dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Anshul Gangwar Subject: RE: Hyper-V agent I agree that we need a distro for the agent. Based on what KVM does, what is the pattern for distributing non-Java agents? DL From: Paul Angus [mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 02 January 2014 15:12 To: Donal Lafferty; dev@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Anshul Gangwar Subject: Hyper-V agent Happy New Year Everyone, Is there somewhere I can download the hyper-v cloudagent (AgentShell.exe) rather than needing to build a windows development environment to build it. + what's the longer term plan? I can't see Microsoft house sysadmins being willing to build their own agents in order to use CloudStack... Regards Paul Angus Senior Consultant / Cloud Architect [cid:image002.png@01CE1071.C6CC9C10] S: +44 20 3603 0540tel:+442036030540 | M: +4tel:+44796816158147711418784 | T: @CloudyAngus paul.an...@shapeblue.commailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com | www.shapeblue.comhtp://www.shapeblue.com/ | Twitter:@shapebluehttps://twitter.com/ ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS Need Enterprise Grade Support for Apache CloudStack? Our CloudStack Infrastructure Supporthttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/ offers the best 24/7 SLA for CloudStack Environments. Apache CloudStack Bootcamp training courses **NEW!** CloudStack 4.2 traininghttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 08/09 January 2014, Londonhttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 13-17 January 2014, GLOBAL. Instructor led, On-linehttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 20-24 January 2014, GLOBAL. Instructor led, On-linehttp://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 is a registered trademark.
RE: Distributing Remote Agents
In ACS we can use command line way of installing agent on Hyper-V. I have already written code for creating installer using Wix. For both one has to follow steps at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Creating+Hyperv+Agent+Installer. -Original Message- From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:donal.laffe...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 3:47 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Distributing Remote Agents In the same way that the KVM agent is packaged for distribution, an installer is required for the Hyper-V agent. The open-source candidate for creating this installer is WiX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX) While open-source, it's not clear that WiX works or runs in an environment other than Windows. Does this mean that the installer should be in a separate repo? From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:donal.laffe...@citrix.com] Sent: 02 January 2014 16:43 To: Paul Angus; dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Anshul Gangwar Subject: RE: Hyper-V agent I agree that we need a distro for the agent. Based on what KVM does, what is the pattern for distributing non-Java agents? DL From: Paul Angus [mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 02 January 2014 15:12 To: Donal Lafferty; dev@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Anshul Gangwar Subject: Hyper-V agent Happy New Year Everyone, Is there somewhere I can download the hyper-v cloudagent (AgentShell.exe) rather than needing to build a windows development environment to build it. + what's the longer term plan? I can't see Microsoft house sysadmins being willing to build their own agents in order to use CloudStack... Regards Paul Angus Senior Consultant / Cloud Architect [cid:image002.png@01CE1071.C6CC9C10] S: +44 20 3603 0540tel:+442036030540 | M: +4tel:+44796816158147711418784 | T: @CloudyAngus paul.an...@shapeblue.commailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com | www.shapeblue.comhtp://www.shapeblue.com/ | Twitter:@shapebluehttps://twitter.com/ ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS Need Enterprise Grade Support for Apache CloudStack? Our CloudStack Infrastructure Supporthttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/ offers the best 24/7 SLA for CloudStack Environments. Apache CloudStack Bootcamp training courses **NEW!** CloudStack 4.2 traininghttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 08/09 January 2014, Londonhttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 13-17 January 2014, GLOBAL. Instructor led, On-linehttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 20-24 January 2014, GLOBAL. Instructor led, On-linehttp://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 is a registered trademark.
RE: Distributing Remote Agents
I can't imagine many (if any) Microsoft Windows types going through the hoops required to build their own agent from source. A mechanism is going to be required to create convenience binaries for them. Just installing Cygwin is a pain. Regards, Paul Angus Cloud Architect S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447711418784 | T: @CloudyAngus paul.an...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Anshul Gangwar [mailto:anshul.gang...@citrix.com] Sent: 03 January 2014 11:18 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: Distributing Remote Agents In ACS we can use command line way of installing agent on Hyper-V. I have already written code for creating installer using Wix. For both one has to follow steps at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Creating+Hyperv+Agent+Installer. -Original Message- From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:donal.laffe...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 3:47 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Distributing Remote Agents In the same way that the KVM agent is packaged for distribution, an installer is required for the Hyper-V agent. The open-source candidate for creating this installer is WiX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX) While open-source, it's not clear that WiX works or runs in an environment other than Windows. Does this mean that the installer should be in a separate repo? From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:donal.laffe...@citrix.com] Sent: 02 January 2014 16:43 To: Paul Angus; dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Anshul Gangwar Subject: RE: Hyper-V agent I agree that we need a distro for the agent. Based on what KVM does, what is the pattern for distributing non-Java agents? DL From: Paul Angus [mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 02 January 2014 15:12 To: Donal Lafferty; dev@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Anshul Gangwar Subject: Hyper-V agent Happy New Year Everyone, Is there somewhere I can download the hyper-v cloudagent (AgentShell.exe) rather than needing to build a windows development environment to build it. + what's the longer term plan? I can't see Microsoft house sysadmins being willing to build their own agents in order to use CloudStack... Regards Paul Angus Senior Consultant / Cloud Architect [cid:image002.png@01CE1071.C6CC9C10] S: +44 20 3603 0540tel:+442036030540 | M: +4tel:+44796816158147711418784 | T: @CloudyAngus paul.an...@shapeblue.commailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com | www.shapeblue.comhtp://www.shapeblue.com/ | Twitter:@shapebluehttps://twitter.com/ ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS Need Enterprise Grade Support for Apache CloudStack? Our CloudStack Infrastructure Supporthttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/ offers the best 24/7 SLA for CloudStack Environments. Apache CloudStack Bootcamp training courses **NEW!** CloudStack 4.2 traininghttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 08/09 January 2014, Londonhttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 13-17 January 2014, GLOBAL. Instructor led, On-linehttp://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/ 20-24 January 2014, GLOBAL. Instructor led, On-linehttp://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 is a registered trademark. 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 is a registered trademark.
