James Penick wrote: > Hey folks, > I have a team that uses our OpenStack VM and BM clusters in their CI > and CD environments (And yes, they really do need baremetal for some > of their CI tests, unless I want to support gigantifriggenormous VM > flavors). > > CI on baremetal works ok, however the time it takes to image the host > prior to running the tests slows down their whole CI pipeline. What > they want to do is boot > instances in advance then as needed select an unused instance and > execute their CI job on it. Upon completion of their CI job they'd > like to reimage the host and return it to an "unused" state. > > I came up with something using instance names as an atomic-ish means > of managing state. But it's pretty hacky. Before I go off and have to > build a new webservice myself, has anyone heard of a tool that does > something like this already? > > thanks! > -James > > :)= James,
Here at Puppet, we've built a tool called 'vmpooler' which performs this function[1]. Currently it is written to work primarily with VMware, but we are very interested in extending it such that we could have pluggable backends (perhaps even on a per-pool basis). Please feel free to take a look, fork, and modify. Of course, PRs are always welcome. =] Regards, Richard Raseley SysOps Engineer Puppet Labs [1] - https://github.com/puppetlabs/vmpooler
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