Hi, On 25 Apr 2014, at 17:41, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote:
> Hi All, > > Thanks for the congratulations! Looking forward to putting more time > into Cloudstack. > > My project in brief involves re-creating devcloud using vagrant and > provisioning them with puppet. There's a full proposal at > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/imduffy15/5662278724616192 > for anybody interested. I think this will be really good! > I've started doing a small amount of work on it. As stated in the > proposal I'm going to be using xenserver. I read up on doing > unattended installations with xenserver and created a packerfile for > creating the box file https://github.com/imduffy15/packer-xenserver By coincidence Jon Ludlam (cc:d) and I have started working on something similar — maybe we can collaborate. Our goal was to be able to create vagrant definitions (or similar) that we could glue together like lego, to make development environments with (e.g.) multiple xenservers to test migration and environments with both xen and kvm to test interop, while being able to run the management server locally for ease of debugging… well that’s the dream anyway :-) Jon created a xenserver-6.2-sp1 vagrant box (manually) and uploaded it to vagrant cloud: https://vagrantcloud.com/jonludlam/xenserver-6.2-sp1 (It looks like your packerfile should cleanly automate the production of this — is that right?) I created a very simple ‘infrastructure’ VM which contains mysql, NFS for primary and secondary and NAT/DNSMASQ so it can act as the gateway for the nested guests: https://github.com/djs55/cloudstack-dev-vms/tree/master/cloudstack-infrastructure and I customised Jon’s box to switch to bridge, fiddle with networking settings etc: https://github.com/djs55/cloudstack-dev-vms/tree/master/xenserver-6.2 and I’ve got a marvin/deployDatacenter config: https://github.com/djs55/cloudstack-dev-vms/blob/master/datacenter.cfg Using virtualbox on OSX I can ‘vagrant up’ the infrastructure VM, ‘vagrant up’ the xenserver and then run the management server locally… just about. There are still lots of rough edges like 1. I think I need to do something to ensure the management server uses a sensible IP address; since I’m running it on the host for ease of development, there are about 10 different IPs it could choose 2. When switching between cloudstack branches I need to download a matching system VM template. I was wondering if I could auto-download the right template directly into NFS secondary storage on the infrastructure VM. I keep forgetting to do this and it’s very annoying! 3. I don’t know how best to spawn multiple xenservers, manage their IPs, add them to the cloud etc. The deployDatacenter .json format seems to be being actively developed, so now the one in the repo only works with cloudstack/master. Maybe this is where puppet comes in? Plus of course to test KVM we need a hypervisor supported by vagrant and which supports nested virt which probably means supporting running also on a KVM host. So far our Vagrantfiles and boxes are virtualbox-specific. Cheers, Dave > > On 23 April 2014 11:24, Rajesh Battala <rajesh.batt...@citrix.com> wrote: >> Congrats Ian, Darren and Seif! >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:43 AM >> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> Cc: Ian Duffy; Darren Brogan; Seif Eddine Jemli >> Subject: [GSOC2014] Acceptance of three projects for CloudStack >> >> I am pleased to announce the acceptance of three google summer of code >> projects for Apache CloudStack in summer 2014. >> >> Our three students are: >> >> -Ian Duffy (back for one more round), who will work on a >> vagrant/puppet/travis configuration to improve on devcloud. >> -Darren Brogam, who will improve the GCE and AWS interfaces (that has he has >> co-authored) -Seif Eddine Jemli, who will develop a new UI for Primary >> Storage plug-ins >> >> Mike Tutkowski will mentor Seif, while I will mentor Ian and Darren. >> >> Join me in congratulating our three stars of gsoc 2014 ! >> >> -Sebastien
