On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote: >> The known stuffs left are: >> 1. Need to automate CloudStack management server installation. We need a >> preinstalled CloudStack mgt server in DevCloud, for ordinary user. The main >> issue is that on master branch, DEB build is broken, and mgt server doesn't >> work on Ubuntu 12.04(such as tomcat6.conf is changed, some jar files are >> changed, not include in the class path etc). I manually hacked the DEB build >> and then changed a lot of files to get it work. > > That one sounds messy... Is there a reason that you started with > 12.04 as the OS? Does Fedora perhaps work better for now? > >> 2. Minor one: such as setting root password to "password", set dom0 mem to >> 512M > > Patch submitted via reviewboard. https://reviews.apache.org/r/5877/ > > Any others like this? > >> 4. Need to document or automate the VirtualBox image or ova creating >> process, such as what's the hardware configuration for the VM, what's the >> Port Forwarding rules we are using, etc. > > This is where Vagrant can help out, since one of it's main goals in > life is to help configure the VirtualBox environment for a VM (or set > of VMs). This includes all sorts of useful knobs. If you want to do > the documentation, I wouldn't mind taking a shot at the vagrant > configuration. > >>> Two other thoughts / questions: >>> >>> 1 - Did you consider using puppet recipes to configure the system? >>> >>> 2 - Did you consider wrapping the configuration / setup process with >>> Vagrant? >>> >> I thought about it before, but I am not familiar with both of these tools, >> so if the community can help, that will be great! >> Based on what devcloudscript.sh did, it should be doable if we move to >> puppet/Vagrant? >> > > Looking at the script, absolutely. Perhaps we can start with vagrant > at the beginning (using your existing script within the Vagrant > configuration process), and then look at shifting from the shell > provisioner type to a puppet manifest approach. Sound reasonable?
Yes, vagrant is ideal for this - and it means we could be generating new images every night or at any other interval. If you are interested in doing this, please do so!
