On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis <vrac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > my name is Ilias, and I am a student from Greece. > I wanted to propose an idea for this year's summer of code, > but I am not sure how useful it actually is for others. > > I would like to create a webui to manage the jails on a system. > The only other alternative I could find at the moment is > a webmin plugin. The thing is that webmin is a fairly generic tool > that can do a lot of things. My idea was to create a django-based > application designed specifically for jail management and deployment. > > Does this functionality actually appeal to people? I think this is a great idea. > Is it feasible as a SoC project? I think that your best chance at success is going to be to design your project around the fact that the jail management landscape (in the scope of both the utilities offered in the base for managing jails at the command-line and the capabilities of what a jail can do such as mount ''jail-friendly'' vfs types when allowed via sysctl-knob, etc). There are several e-mails in the -jail@ list which can provide a good idea as to the direction of the jail landscape. So, for example, I'd design a web interface that has the ability to mount NFS from within the jail (via jexec perhaps) not just into the jail (from the base-host). Even though ZFS is about the only ''jail-friendly'' vfs type, NFS should eventually make it's way into that group, and once it does, it would be nice if the web interface either supported it or was modular enough to extend the capability to support said feature. -- Cheers, Devin > Regards, > Ilias > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
