Paul, Thanks for pushing hard on getting Trillian GA.
We've lately became vmware allergic :( Hoping KVM would be on the roadmap soon. Thanks ilya On 7/8/16 7:38 AM, Will Stevens wrote: > I can answer this for you. No, it does not support KVM as the base > hypervisor. This was a design decision early in the Trillian project. We > just need to get some VMware in the lab for testing (we need to do this > anyway). > > *Will STEVENS* > Lead Developer > > *CloudOps* *| *Cloud Solutions Experts > 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 > w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_ > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Syed Mushtaq <syed1.mush...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Followup question: Does Trillian support KVM as the "Base" hypervisor >> instead of ESXi? If not, what would it take to enable this. >> >> -Syed >> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Syed Mushtaq <syed1.mush...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Awesome job Paul. I was in such dire need of a tool like this, everything >>> I need to check if a feature works for different hardware, I have to >> spend >>> an obscene amount of time to set things up. This would really be >>> productivity booster for sure. >>> >>> -Syed >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Paul Angus <paul.an...@shapeblue.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> As some of you may know, I have been working for some time on a project >>>> called Trillian. This started out as an internal project at $dayjob with >>>> the intentions of being able to quickly build environments to: >>>> >>>> >>>> a) Test new feature software builds (manually and via Marvin) >>>> >>>> b) Test community releases (manually and via Marvin) >>>> >>>> c) Replicate failure scenarios >>>> >>>> d) Evaluate new features >>>> >>>> To meet these and a number of other requirements I started Trillian. At >>>> Trillian's core are Ansible, CloudStack and vSphere virtualisation. >> Ansible >>>> takes a command line input and requests VM instances from CloudStack and >>>> then configures all of the hypervisor hosts and mgmt. servers, finally >>>> creating a zone which incorporates all of the components which were >>>> requested. >>>> >>>> The environments are built in projects and the accounts which are >> allowed >>>> access are specified on the commandline. >>>> >>>> The commandline arguments look like this: >>>> >>>> --extra-vars "env_name=myACSenv env_version=cs45 hvtype=x hv=2 >>>> xs_ver=xs65sp1 env_accounts=all pri=1 mgmt_os=6" >>>> >>>> There is a global file which holds the mapping of ACS version to >> relevant >>>> URLs or OS types to specific templates, however EVERY mapping can be >>>> overridden from commandline. >>>> >>>> --extra-vars "env_name=cs49-vmw55-pga env_version=cs49 mgmt_os=6 >>>> hvtype=v vmware_ver=55u3 hv=2 pri=2 env_accounts=all build_marvin=yes >>>> baseurl_cloudstack=http://10.2.0.4/shapeblue/cloudstack/testing/ >>>> mgmtsrv_template=Testc6Template" >>>> >>>> CloudStack deploys the virtualised hypervisor hosts and mgmt. servers as >>>> and when required - CloudStack mgmt. server, MySQL hosts Marvin host, >>>> vCenter server) onto the ESXi hosts. >>>> >>>> The output from each request is a bespoke, fully working virtualised >>>> CloudStack environment. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The reason trillion came about in its current form is that at $dayjob we >>>> have to deal with lots of different types of environment, hypervisors >> and >>>> configurations. >>>> I know others have put a lot of work into similar tools, which I've used >>>> over the years and found useful but I needed some tooling that could >> also >>>> support vSphere hosts and Hyper-V and also be easy to connect to >> external >>>> integration points such as SolidFire storage, NetScalers, Cloudian S3 >>>> installations etc. as well as supporting multi-tenancy. >>>> >>>> For some time, it's been my intention to make this open source and >>>> generally available for this community. While I could have done this >> sooner >>>> but I held back a little as I wanted to make sure that it was well >>>> documented and could be easily deployed for a wide range of use-cases >>>> >>>> I'm happy to say I think we're just about there. >>>> Trillion is now available: >>>> https://github.com/shapeblue/Trillian >>>> >>>> Please feel free to use, comment, find bugs or come up with any ideas on >>>> how we can make this better. >>>> Rohit has integrated this with Jenkins and will be sharing how he has >>>> done this soon too. >>>> >>>> >>>> If people think this is useful for the community, I've got clearance >> from >>>> $dayjob to donate the work into ACS (if we want it). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Marvin: "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed." >>>> Trillian: "Well, we have something that may take your mind off it." >>>> Marvin: "It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind." >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Paul Angus >>>> >>>> >>>> paul.an...@shapeblue.com >>>> www.shapeblue.com >>>> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK >>>> @shapeblue >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
