On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Ralf Haferkamp <rha...@suse.de> wrote: > Hi, > > currenlty the provisioner barclamps sets up a polipo instance on the admin > node > to act as a proxy for the client nodes (AFAIK to be able to access remote > package > repositories). Is there any specific reason why polipo was choosen for this? > Instead of e.g. choosing apache2?
Mostly because I knew how to whip up a quick little recipe for polipo, and I had never tried to use apache2 for that purpose. > I am asking because I'd like to avoid adding a dependency to yet another web > server to crowbar (+openstack). Currenlty we already have apache2 and nginx. > Note: for our 1.x based release we avoided the use of nginx and used apache2 > everywhere). These days I would probably pick squid to use as a caching web proxy based on issues I have had with polipo, but the rest of Crowbar does not care at all about which proxy is being used. > -- > Ralf > > _______________________________________________ > Crowbar mailing list > Crowbar@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar > For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/ _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list Crowbar@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
