[Crowbar] email address change

2014-10-02 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, Effective 10/3, my primary email address will be r...@zehicle.com. Please use that address for 1x1 communications as needed. I will continue to be on both lists and will ensure that we have a moderator on the Dell sponsored list; however, I recommend that we cont

Re: [Crowbar] SUSE OpenStack Cloud 4 Admin Appliance

2014-08-27 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Thanks! This is really exciting. I'm impressed by the capabilities of this release. We discussed this exact thing today on the community call. At some point, I'd love to see the cookbooks ported to v2 (OpenCrowbar) and would be happy to talk to anyone who's interested in that effort. Rob >

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar VM image available for download

2014-07-28 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, In the last call, we discussed creating a preconfigured VM that's ready to run OpenCrowbar using the Docker Admin. I've uploaded our first attempt to https://sourceforge.net/projects/crowbar/files/core/vms/ and tested it on my own system. The images includes working Squid & Docker setups

[Crowbar] Milestone! Automated Travis BDD Tests for all OpenCrowbar Pull Requests

2014-07-16 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We've reached a long desired milestone: we have automated tests run on pull requests as part of our gate process! The current process uses Travis-CI and the BDD framework for basic UI & API validation of all pull requests. You also have the option to turn Travis on for your own clone and

[Crowbar] Next OpenCrowbar Planning Wed 7/16 @ 11am Central [NOTE NEW TIME!]

2014-07-14 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-planning-meeting-2014-07-16 OpenCrowbar Design Meeting 2016-07-16 11am Central http://join.me/opencrowbar # Agenda for Planning * Marketing Roadmap * Chef Metal * Ceph & Core Blocker # Agenda for Next Design * W

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Meeting Notes & Recording (note: new time is 11 Central)

2014-07-10 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, Great meeting today with LOTS of design detail about how the annealer works and what is "in band" and "out of band." We also talked about how/if you could use Crowbar with a Cloud API at the very end of the meeting. Next meeting we will talk about roadmaps. http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/c

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Design Meeting tomorrow at 10 CT

2014-07-09 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
That's too early for our West Coast callers. > -Original Message- > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Kanevsky, Arkady > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 2:26 PM > To: j...@newgoliath.com; opencrow...@googlegroups.com > Cc: crowbar > Subject: Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Design Meeting tomorro

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Design Meeting tomorrow at 10 CT

2014-07-09 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, I'm considering moving this meeting to a more West Coast friendly time (perhaps 11 CT or even 3 CT) in the future. We chose 10 to accommodate Europe time zones but it's appropriate to open up the discussion. Rob From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Hirschfeld, Rob Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Design Meeting tomorrow at 10 CT

2014-07-08 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-design-meeting-2014-07-09 Share: http://join.me/opencrowbar ## Design Meeting Agenda * Chef Metal * RPM install maintenance * Use cases for power management * * how to handle VMs * Cloud API Jig * "As an operator, I want Crowbar to pro

[Crowbar] 100 Node Challenge > Official Announce

2014-07-02 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, At day's planning meeting, we officially announced the 100 node challenge. If you are interested, we can discuss on these lists or contact me 1x1. Here's the text I posted: OpenCrowbar community contributors are offering a "100 Node Challenge" by volunteering to setup a 100+ node Crowbar

[Crowbar] reminder: OpenCrowbar planning meeting tomorrow 10 central

2014-07-01 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We've got exciting progress to report from this sprint and interesting items to discuss for next. http://join.me/opencrowbar at 10 am Central on 7/2. Rob __ Rob Hirschfeld Sr. Distinguished Cloud Solution Architect Dell | Cloud Edge, Data Center Solutions cell +

[Crowbar] Power via CLI/API using IPMI config on out-of-band BMC net - shout out to Victor

2014-06-30 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, It's worth noting the pull that I just accepted into OpenCrowbar brings in the IPMI configuration AND creates a direct out-of-band CLI/API command set for power management using the BMC network. This relatively small seeming feature require goes way back in Crowbar history and demonstrate

Re: [Crowbar] bastion network

2014-06-28 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
I was hoping you’d name all the NICs, IP ranges, Gateways and purposes of your network. It would be helpful if you also copied the relevant parts of the network.json file to gist or pastebin. From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Oguz Yarimtepe Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 12:52 AM To: crowbar Subj

Re: [Crowbar] bastion network

2014-06-26 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
The gateway is part of the network json file so you need it to be right there. It would help if you sent details of your planned network config. This is CB1 so I'm very rusty. Would be great for the CB1 contributors to chime in too Rob H 512-909-7219 Original message From:

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Design Meeting Agenda for 6/25 10 Central

2014-06-24 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-design-meeting-2014-06-25 Connect via: http://join.me/opencrowbar OpenCrowbar Community Meeting 2016-06-18 10am Central Prev Meeting: http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-design-meeting-2014-06-11 http:

Re: [Crowbar] problem with plugin Cisco

2014-06-16 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Siaolé Thanks. The SUSE team needs to weigh in on that. Rob From: Siaolé ZOU [mailto:tech.x...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 4:35 AM To: Hirschfeld, Rob Subject: Re: [Crowbar] problem with plugin Cisco Hi Rob, The version of CB et 1.7 and the operating system is OS SLES 11SP3. Be mor

Re: [Crowbar] problem with plugin Cisco

2014-06-15 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Siaole, Can you give us more details about the version of Crowbar and operating system? I know this is a CB v1 feature but not sure about the branch details. I believe Adam (copied) may be the best resource for this plug-in. Thanks, Rob From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Siaolé ZOU Sent: Fri

Re: [Crowbar] please decouple lists [OLD LIST]

2014-06-15 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
This should do it. Cross posting will be manual for now – this email is a test (should go to OLD list only) Subscription Links: · New Community List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/opencrowbar · Old Dell Managed List: https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowba

[Crowbar] Hardware Workload, 100 Node Challenge - seeks site, Razor information

2014-06-12 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We had a great design meeting on Wednesday! We talked about the hardware design and short decription. I'm super excited to see people in the community stepping up to get a 100 node deployment running. We just need a volunteer site (see the link about details). Hardware Workload > http:/

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar short definition for home page

2014-06-12 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We worked on this at the design meeting and I wanted to invite more discussion on the list: Crowbar is An open ops framework with just-enough orchestration to provision and maintain ready state for any brand of physical infrastucture with RAID, BIOS and networking fully configured.

[Crowbar] Reminder: Design Meeting Wed 10 am Central

2014-06-10 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
To add items > http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-design-meeting-2014-06-11 OpenCrowbar Design Meeting 2016-06-11 10am Central Previous Meeting: http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-planning-meeting-2014-06-04 Next Meeting: Interactive on http:

[Crowbar] Crowbar 100 Node Challenge & Hardware Spec

2014-06-06 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, At the planning meeting, we discussed that some of the community members want to offer a "100 Node Challenge" where we will volunteer to setup a 100 node Crowbar system to prove out the v2 architecture at scale. We picked 100 nodes since we wanted to break the v1 upper ceiling. I created

[Crowbar] working on Crowbar elevator pitch, please review & update etherpad

2014-06-05 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, I reposted the deep and rich principles material from the github docs and then realized that we don't have a crisp short Crowbar description. Edits/Discussion welcome: http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/crowbar-elevator An ops framework with just-enough orchestration to provision and maintain an

[Crowbar] tracking issue with sledgehammer RPM 404

2014-06-02 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, I was trying to do a fresh Crowbar install and hit a 404 on the sledgehammer RPM. This may be related to changes from Dell. Should be easy to fix. Bug opened: https://github.com/opencrowbar/core/issues/146 Rob __ Rob Hirschfeld Sr. Distinguished Cloud Solution

[Crowbar] Items for review for planning call

2014-06-02 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Mike, Thanks for the reminder! I've updated some of mine. All > These are topics for review on Wednesday. Please take time to review! http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-planning-meeting-2014-06-04 Here's a copy of the material: # Stories for Review ## Ceph IPv6 (will be needed for OpenS

[Crowbar] FW: OpenCrowbar on Red Hat

2014-05-29 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Forwarded to new opencrow...@googlegroups.com list -Original Message- From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Alan Milligan Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 11:24 PM To: crowbar Subject: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar on Red Hat Hi, Thank you all for the hard work in th

[Crowbar] reminder: design meeting tomorrow 10am central http://join.me/opencrowbar

2014-05-27 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, As discussed last week (http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-planning-meeting-2014-05-21), we're using our regular design meeting to review. The agenda is posted: http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-design-meeting-2014-05-28 and is mainly about prioritizing and technical needs aroun

[Crowbar] Donating Gear for Build & Physical Testing ?

2014-05-25 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We've got a volunteer for hosting space for test gear. Anyone have servers to put in the space? Rob __ Rob Hirschfeld Sr. Distinguished Cloud Solution Architect Dell | Cloud Edge, Data Center Solutions cell +1 512 909-7219 blog robhirschfeld.com, twitter @zehicl

[Crowbar] Updated Home Page: crowbar.github.io

2014-05-25 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
As per the community meeting last week, I've updated the "crowbar home page" to point to both Crowbar 1 and Crowbar 2 sites. Please review: http://crowbar.github.io/home.html I believe we need a better link for the v1 home. Rob __ Rob Hirschfeld Sr. Distinguished Cl

[Crowbar] Notes from Community Meeting on Wed 5/21

2014-05-25 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
OpenCrowbar Community Planning 21 May 2014 === Previous Meeting: http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/community-planning-meeting-2014-04-09 Anvil Release Announce: http://robhirschfeld.com/2014/04/30/opencrowbar-anvil/ Recording: http://youtu.be/qyf4_6QIZM0 # Agenda:

[Crowbar] List Migration > please move to opencrow...@googlegroups.com

2014-05-25 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We've moving this list to opencrow...@googlegroups.com. I expect there will be a short period of dual posting, but please register and start using the new google group right away. That list has much richer management and threading capabilities. Also

Re: [Crowbar] Update on Dell and Crowbar > subject for weekly call

2014-05-19 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We'll specifically discuss this topic during this Wednesday's call (10 am central on http://join.me/dellcrowbar) There are some interesting ramifications to this move that could accelerate Crowbar development more broadly in the community. If you have questions, please feel free to use th

[Crowbar] Short Community Meeting today @ 10 central

2014-05-07 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Crowbar Community, In my role as OpenCrowbar technical lead, I'm continuing with our weekly coordination meetings on http://join.me/dellcrowbar . We are NOT meeting next week due to the OpenStack summit. The topics for this week are: * Update on Dell activity * OpenStack summi

Re: [Crowbar] crowbar nodes' state is unhappy but in chef nodes' state appears happy

2014-05-04 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
John-Paul, One of the challenges with Crowbar 1 is that the nodes are very very linked to Chef. It's possible that you caused some drift then you recreated the credentials. Please check your chef system to see if the nodes are created multiple times. Rob > -Original Message- > From:

Re: [Crowbar] skipping raid config

2014-05-02 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Ok, it's been a long time since I've thought about that version. So please accept my apologies in advance is my advice is fuzzy. I believe that you can set RAID to "none" in the Nodes...Bulk Edit page. You may have to edit the "wall" in the Crowbar databag via Chef. QUESTION: I did not think

Re: [Crowbar] skipping raid config

2014-05-02 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Which version of Crowbar are you using? Rob H 512-909-7219 Original message From: John-Paul Robinson Date:05/02/2014 7:37 AM (GMT-06:00) To: crowbar Subject: Re: [Crowbar] skipping raid config So I tried again with our RAID manually configured: 2 OS drives @ 300GB in RAID1 1

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar.Anvil released – hammering out a gold standard in open bare metal provisioning

2014-04-30 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Crowbar Teams, (to be cross posted to http://robhirschfeld.com/2014/04/30/opencrowbar-anvil/) I’m excited to be announcing OpenCrowbar’s first release, Anvil, for the community. Looking back on ourorigi

Re: [Crowbar] SUSE Cloud 3 Admin Appliance 1.2.1 Standard/Embedded

2014-04-29 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Congrats! Nicely done. > -Original Message- > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Cameron Seader > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:19 PM > To: crowbar > Subject: [Crowbar] SUSE Cloud 3 Admin Appliance 1.2.1 > Standard/Embedded > > Greetings, > SUSE Cloud 3 Admin Appliance 1.2.1 is availab

Re: [Crowbar] First PXE server not quite working....

2014-04-29 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Thanks – the actual email is crow...@lists.us.dell.com and/or sign up on http://bit.ly/crowbarlist From: Michael Shuler [mailto:mshu...@riotgames.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 10:01 AM To: Hirschfeld, Rob Cc: Harris, Brian A; Lowther, Victor; Jensen, Scott

[Crowbar] Community Meeting tomorrow @ 10 central - discuss OpenCrowbar.Anvil release

2014-04-29 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, Sorry about missing the last few community meetings. We are on schedule for tomorrow using the http://join.me/dellcrowbar join me bridge. The agenda will be about making the OpenCrowbar.Anvil release official. Rob __ Rob Hirschfeld Sr. Distinguished Cloud Solut

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar - ready cut Anvil Release

2014-04-24 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, Over the last sprint, the Dell Crowbar team has focused on closing defects and fixing last issues that map to the release roadmap that we laid out in the community call several weeks ago (http://pad.opencrowbar.org/p/release_roadmap ) Like any release, we could continue to polish and tweak

Re: [Crowbar] having problem assessing download area.

2014-04-23 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Hydrogen ISO until we get SourceForge downloads working again: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B59W7fm5Av0geWtFM19pT3lzbTA/edit?usp=sharing From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Hirschfeld, Rob Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:26 PM To: raka...@gmail.com; Kanevsky, Arkady Cc: crowbar Subject: Re: [C

Re: [Crowbar] having problem assessing download area.

2014-04-22 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
I’m working on that upload too. I can confirm that sourceforge is not responding. I’m trying to upload to google drive as a stop gap. Arkady – can you provide direction to building a Hydrogen ISO in the mean time? From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Raghu Katti Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 8:4

Re: [Crowbar] OpenStack and OpenCrowbar

2014-04-14 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Raghu, I’m sorry to tell you that the port of the upstream OpenStack cookbooks is not complete and we don’t have an estimate for it at this time. There are many parts to Havana. Which ones are your highest priorty? (note: there is a HIGE amount of Havana functionality on the Crowbar 1 branch,

Re: [Crowbar] [core] Added ubuntu specific Time saving tips (#121)

2014-04-13 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Raghu, It looks like your permissions are not letting you create ~/core/rails/.bundle on your dev system. Check your permissions and try again. Perhaps even create that directory. If could also be that you need to create the noproxy env variable: export no_proxy="127.0.0.1,[::1],localhost,192

Re: [Crowbar] Getting 'Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise' while starting admin

2014-04-13 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Great suggestion – I’ll update the page! Please review it again and let me know if my change helped. From: Raghu Katti [mailto:raka...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:42 PM To: Hirschfeld, Rob Cc: crowbar Subject: Re: [Crowbar] Getting 'Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise' while

Re: [Crowbar] Getting 'Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise' while starting admin

2014-04-13 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Raghu, Do you use passwordless sudo? I suspect that we may be making that assumption and it should be a requirement in the install. http://serverfault.com/questions/160581/how-to-setup-passwordless-sudo-on-linux Rob From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Raghu Katti Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014

Re: [Crowbar] dev script changing

2014-04-04 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Oguz, This should be handed by configuring your git remotes. There’s a way to rank these so that devtool can deal with things like you are asking. Please review https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crowbar/crowbar/7cb2214734fec174808b52a3d1d8169677cf2a23/README.dev-and-workflow It has some detai

Re: [Crowbar] Installing crowbar mesa 1.6 on HP C7000 G8 blade.

2014-04-04 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Cool - I'm glad you got past it! Thanks for the update. FWIW - we're trying to make this even easier to troubleshoot with OpenCrowbar. From: MCGRATH, GIL [mailto:gm2...@att.com] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 8:07 AM To: Hirschfeld, Rob; crowbar Subject: Re: Installing crowbar mesa 1.6 on HP C7000

Re: [Crowbar] Installing crowbar mesa 1.6 on HP C7000 G8 blade.

2014-04-03 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Gil, It looks like it's failing trying to run one of the following modprobe ipmi_si modprobe ipmi_devintf ipmitool lan print 1 I have no idea if those will work on that equipment. You may want to try to run them by hand on the system in sledgehammer (you can SSH as root from the

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar Deployment

2014-04-01 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Also, we're working on giving feedback to users so they know why Crowbar rejected their change. From: Bovee, Justin Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 10:05 PM To: Hirschfeld, Rob; crowbar Subject: RE: Crowbar Deployment One of the other things I found is I am unable to properly set values that have

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar Deployment

2014-03-31 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Yes! That helps a lot. From: Bovee, Justin Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 2:45 PM To: Hirschfeld, Rob; crowbar Subject: RE: Crowbar Deployment The current steps. Setup Crowbar before the admin node is added. Using the UI, go to barclamps and click edit on the barclamp. I see the same behavior i

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar Deployment

2014-03-31 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Justin, Thanks for the update. I'm working on the attributes update issue, What URL are you calling? Could you let me know your steps to get this error? This looks like a scaffolds issue so I'm not sure how to reproduce. Rob From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Bovee, Justin Sent: Monday, Mar

[Crowbar] VirtualBox Reboot resolved in OpenCrowbar, tracking 5 other issues

2014-03-29 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We've been tracking an issue w/ OpenCrowbar not rebooting from Sledgehammer on VirtualBox. This issue has been addressed with https://github.com/opencrowbar/core/pull/102 We are tracking the following UI issues/features: 1. AJAX post/put does not give status on error 2. Doc i

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar Deployment

2014-03-28 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Justin, Sorry, I agree it's confusing. We're trying to get it cleaned up. Which version (1 or 2) are you trying to bring up? Can you give us some information about what you want to accomplish in your testing? You say, manage provisioning in your lab - is that for mainly Linux? Are you looki

Re: [Crowbar] Disk space for sledgehammer

2014-03-28 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Gil, I'd recommend at least 40 Gb since the Admin server needs the discovery and install images. Good news - in the latest code, we use a pre-built sledgehammer that will automatically download. It does not change very much, so it's easier for everyone if we use a prestaged version. Also, I'

Re: [Crowbar] Trove barclamp for Crowbar

2014-03-28 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
+1 > -Original Message- > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Dirk Müller > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 4:23 AM > To: crowbar > Subject: [Crowbar] Trove barclamp for Crowbar > > Hi, > > SUSE, namely Ionut Artarisi, developed a barclamp for deploying Trove > in the recent weeks. We'd like t

Re: [Crowbar] Removing branches fully merged into "master".

2014-03-21 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
+1 From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Williams, J T Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 1:27 PM To: j...@suse.de; crowbar Subject: Re: [Crowbar] Removing branches fully merged into "master". Dell - Internal Use - Confidential I am not arguing the point that anything will be lost. I agree that with the

Re: [Crowbar] hooking into a crBaowbar-instantiated chef server

2014-03-20 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
John-Paul, Sorry I missed chiming in on your original email. We've working in OpenCrowbar to address some of these issues - the website uses more standard Rails 4 / Ruby 2 configuration with a standard Postgresql database. More importantly, we're enabling Berkshelf support to make it easy to use

Re: [Crowbar] crowbar vs opencrowbar vs the people

2014-03-18 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
> On Monday 17 March 2014 00:55:51 rob_hirschf...@dell.com wrote: > > Sascha, > > [snip] > > > We have > > nearly completed the migration of CB2 work to OCB include the > > OpenStack and Hadoop workloads. I think we just need to work out a > > migration plan that could leave CB1 work free to move

Re: [Crowbar] crowbar vs opencrowbar vs the people

2014-03-16 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Sascha, Excellent question. I've been watching the CB1 work and concur with your description of the excellent functionality being added there! We have nearly completed the migration of CB2 work to OCB include the OpenStack and Hadoop workloads. I think we just need to work out a migration plan

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar org's repository names > NON-ISSUE

2014-02-27 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, After reviewing this issue some more, there appears to be an easy solution that should work for everyone. 1) Leave the opencrowbar repos with short descriptive names (no action needed!) 2) Suggest/allow people to rename their clones (this is easy to do) (it’s in the github se

Re: [Crowbar] confusion between 1.x and 2.x

2014-02-22 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
If you have the bootstrap ui then you have v1. Rob H 512-909-7219 Original message From: Oğuz Yarımtepe Date:02/22/2014 2:16 AM (GMT-06:00) To: crowbar Subject: [Crowbar] confusion between 1.x and 2.x Hi, Thanx to tboerger we are able to build Crowbar from Roxy branch by sw

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar org's repository names

2014-02-21 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
+1 on this convention. I agree with the need after looking at my own account. (except sledgehammer… would rather have crowbar-discovery if it’s needed as a dedicated repo) From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Judd Maltin Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 12:51 PM To: crowbar Subject: [Crowbar] Open

[Crowbar] FW: [core] Deploy centos 6.5 as slave (#20)

2014-02-17 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Victor, This is a HUGE lift in functionality: CentOS, Online mode, Disk IDs, MultiOS! Thanks! I’m going to look at the review. Rob From: Victor Lowther [mailto:notificati...@github.com] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 4:35 PM To: opencrowbar/core Subject: [core] Deploy centos 6.5 as slave (#20

[Crowbar] Sprint Planning Notes 2014-02-12

2014-02-12 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, Another good meeting w/ lots of discussion AND note taking. The session was recorded too. Link: http://crowbar.sync.in/community-planning-meeting-2014-02-12 Snapshot from meeting: # Sprint 2014-02-12 Recording: http://youtu.be/iYgz9-pKsiw Summary: Discussion of progress on OpenCrowbar

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar - progress on Docker Admin node

2014-02-06 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
I will defer to Victor on this, he suggested the remote add personal as the path. From: Judd Maltin [mailto:j...@newgoliath.com] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 6:37 AM To: Hirschfeld, Rob Cc: crowbar Subject: Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar - progress on Docker Admin node Shouldn't we default git a

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar - progress on Docker Admin node

2014-02-05 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, I was able to use the following instructions to bring up OpenCrowbar Admin in a Docker container. Compared to the previous DevTool setup and process, this is very simple and easy. Even better, it's also very direct to push/pull code from Github. I will have a pull request shortly, but

[Crowbar] Notes from OpenCrowbar Design Meeting 2/5

2014-02-05 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We had a good design discussion today. Notes http://crowbar.sync.in/community-planning-meeting-2014-01-29 Recording http://youtu.be/VGXQ8WzlDbM Topics include: types of data in CB2, OCB repo migration needs, Docker Admin Container (design review), Berkshelf discussion Here

Re: [Crowbar] Branching for post-Roxy?

2014-02-03 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
+1 on the name. -Original Message- From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Dirk Müller Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 9:49 AM To: Thomas Boerger Cc: crowbar Subject: Re: [Crowbar] Branching for post-Roxy? Hi, > I like that! Dirk advocated the new branch name stoney. Stoney is a > small thief

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar work around for permission

2014-02-01 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Victor, There were two primary items · When the rails server & delayed job threads started, they gave a “cannot open log” message saying the worker did not have write access in the log directory · When the app tried to run, it immediately threw an error trying to cache the CSS

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar work around for permission

2014-02-01 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We had a recent pull to OpenCrowbar to set better file locations for logs and cache; however, we're getting a permissions issue. While we resolve this in a consistent way, there's a simple workaround: sudo chmod 777 /var/cache sudo chmod 777 /var/log/crowbar I don't think this is the rig

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar - standard governance starting

2014-01-21 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All If you're tracking the OpenCrowbar setup progress, we've reached a minor milestone: pull requests are now required. If you want to submit changes to opencrowbar/core, you will need to fork a personal copy and work in your fork. Changes to the core must come through the pull request proces

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar 2.0 Install and Error Handling Video's

2014-01-19 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Thanks! These are great videos and well produced. From: Perryman, Randy Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 02:10 PM Central Standard Time To: crowbar Subject: [Crowbar] Crowbar 2.0 Install and Error Handling Video's Dell - Internal Use - Confidential Hi, I have been working up a couple of video’s

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Migration update

2014-01-16 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
More updates... The basic web UI is working (passing all but 4 BDD tests) for OpenCrowbar Core. There are some handy ./dev_init and ./dev_mode scripts to get it running, but we're still working on documenting the dependencies. Progress on the RPM packaging advances and we're hoping to have an

Re: [Crowbar] Auto-Increment node_id for node add via API

2014-01-15 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Judd, What call are you using? You should not provide an ID. The names are natural keys and required. You should use the node name as the key/id in all calls. Rob From: Judd Maltin [mailto:j...@newgoliath.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:52 AM To: crowbar; Hirschfeld, Rob Subject: Au

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Migration update

2014-01-14 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Sorry for the confusion, Porting workloads to OpenCrowbar (aka Crowbar 2) still in early stages and does not have Havana support. Havana is supported out of the Crowbar 1 work on the "roxy" branch where SUSE is being active and a stable "hydrogen" branch where Dell is maintaining a community r

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Migration update

2014-01-11 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Another update... we discovered a fork collision between the crowbar/barclamp-crowbar and opencrowbar/crowbar repos that would have made it difficult for people to fork the both the repos (which is needed if you want to support both) into their own repo. The resolution was to mirror the opencr

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar planning meetings to resume

2014-01-09 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, We'd like to resume the regular cadence of planning & design meetings for the OpenCrowbar (aka CB2) work. That would include looking at the backlog of work at the start of sprints and having a design/implementation review mid-sprint. Here's what I was starting as the body of the invite:

Re: [Crowbar] L3 topology deployment with Crowbar?

2014-01-07 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Shane, Interesting. I’m trying to imagine the topography because CB2 does have the concept of a network with multiple IP ranges assigned. Can you give a concrete example w/ IP subnet and function that you’d split? I’m not sure how you’d pick which range was tied to a L2 boundary for assignm

Re: [Crowbar] Resolving inter-repository dependencies for CB 2.0

2014-01-06 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
RE: DevTool vs other tools… I’m including rethinking some of the structure decisions that make this really complex in the list of “tools.” For example, not requiring all of the gems/rpms/debs to be pre-cached by Crowbar greatly reduces complexity. Another simplification, is having the barclamp

Re: [Crowbar] packaging barclamps in gems

2014-01-03 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
John, My sense on this is that gems are more for Rails extensions (parts of apps) than a full application. While OpenCrowbar is mostly Rails, it is NOT only Rails. There's quite a bit of extra stuff (chef, erlang, scripts, docs, etc) that we package at the same level as the Rails app. I fou

Re: [Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Migration update

2013-12-27 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Update... I've completed the migration of all the core barclamps (except IPMI) into the https://github.com/opencrowbar/crowbar repo. The gemfile is updated and the website runs if you follow the steps in the readme.md file. Next I'm going to be cleaning up the repo from hanging chads and gettin

[Crowbar] OpenCrowbar Migration update

2013-12-26 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, I've been merging the Crowbar 2 work into a single Crowbar repo for OpenCrowbar. This is part of the "rationalization" process to simplify and streamline the code base for our next phase of development. As requested, I have preserved the history of the Crowbar work (mainly from barclamp-

Re: [Crowbar] crowbar-utils repo moved to http://github.com/opencrowbar/crowbar-utils/

2013-12-21 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
-Original Message- From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Adam Spiers Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:30 AM To: crowbar Subject: Re: [Crowbar] crowbar-utils repo moved to http://github.com/opencrowbar/crowbar-utils/ Ø And worse, the new repos have been done with a straight import, so op

Re: [Crowbar] Which GitHub?

2013-12-20 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Yes. I'll start sending status reports of the migration shortly. - Original Message - From: Kevin [mailto:spam4...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 08:46 AM Central Standard Time To: Hirschfeld, Rob Cc: crowbar Subject: Re: [Crowbar] Which GitHub? Thanks Rob. Thanks Judd. I'l

Re: [Crowbar] Which GitHub?

2013-12-20 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Sledgehammer builds scripts have not been ported yet. Use the crowbar repo. - Original Message - From: Kevin [mailto:spam4...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 08:23 AM Central Standard Time To: crowbar Subject: [Crowbar] Which GitHub? So a lot of discussions going on about crow

Re: [Crowbar] Rationalizing Crowbar Project Infrastructure for our new code base

2013-12-19 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Adam, As you know, we use a very different build process than your team. We have tried several times to duplicate your process using Kiwi and your tool chain without success. We are not going to put additional effort into that. For us to make the needed changes to our build process, we have an

Re: [Crowbar] Rationalizing Crowbar Project Infrastructure for our new code base

2013-12-19 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
-Original Message- From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Vincent Untz Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 4:32 AM Ø What's really worrying to me, though, is that your suggestion might lead to a split in the community. Our community is not that big, and I don't think we can afford it. I've

Re: [Crowbar] record of IP's assigned to bmc_vlan

2013-12-19 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
I did not know off hand but I found this in the docs and assuming you use the default, it should help Table 24: IPMI Barclamp Parameters Name Default Description bmc_enable true Controls if the barclamp attempts to work on the BMC. bmc_password cr0wBar! The password that will be

Re: [Crowbar] record of IP's assigned to bmc_vlan

2013-12-18 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
John-Paul, I'm going from memory - someone else may have a more specific answer... This data should be provided in the Crowbar UI for the Node. I think there's a list of all the assigned IPs with their associated network. If you want the raw data, there are two places to look for this information

[Crowbar] Rationalizing Crowbar Project Infrastructure for our new code base

2013-12-17 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
All, So far, we've accomplished more with Crowbar 1 than I imagined possible. We have led an new generation of bare metal automated installation and set a standard that has been noticed. More importantly, we've learned critical lessons about the right way to solve these hard problems. Crowba

Re: [Crowbar] crowbar-utils repo moved to http://github.com/opencrowbar/crowbar-utils/

2013-12-17 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Shane, Thank you the perspective. We started this discussion during the Crowbar Hack-a-thon in Hong Kong and did not resolve it. Unfortunately, there's not a "makes everyone happy" answer and, as you point out, we need to accept that and move forward. That said, forward progress is not really

Re: [Crowbar] Centos or Fedora?

2013-12-16 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
I'd like to see it where our install does not include all the packages and components that we create on the ISO today. My hope is we can have a single package (rpm/deb) that installs CB onto an existing OS (for Admin server) That makes this question much less of a concern. From: Judd Maltin [ma

Re: [Crowbar] Centos or Fedora?

2013-12-15 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
I think it comes down to how you want to write and build. If your desktop is also your build then I suspect you need Fedora. No matter the build system, we should target the admin install for Centos/RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu LTS. Remember, CB2 should be able to install multi-os on the nodes (not en

Re: [Crowbar] Removing branches fully merged into "master".

2013-12-13 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
I am not in favor of making changes like this while we have so much outstanding pull backlog. From: Williams, J T Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 10:47 AM Central Standard Time To: crowbar Subject: Re: [Crowbar] Removing branches fully merged into "master". Dell - Internal Use - Confidential A

Re: [Crowbar] NTP cookbook broken in CB20

2013-12-12 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
I confirmed that you can edit this with raw mode URL that I sent and fix the json back to an array. From: Victor Lowther [mailto:victor.lowt...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:37 PM To: Sébastien Braun Cc: crowbar; Hirschfeld, Rob Subject: Re: [Crowbar] NTP cookbook broken in CB20

Re: [Crowbar] NTP cookbook broken in CB20

2013-12-12 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Thanks. Please check the user data in the matching deployment role using the URL /deployments/system/roles/ntp-server?raw=true That should show you the data being injected. It's possible that the overlay form put the data in wrong. I believe it should be an array, not a single string. Here's

Re: [Crowbar] NTP cookbook broken in CB20

2013-12-12 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Sebastien, Could you provide some more information about your set and which version of the code (date) you are using? The update NTP to an external value has had minimal testing and likely needs to be checked. We've also been making recent changes to update how attributes are handled but thos

Re: [Crowbar] allocated node does not appear in node list

2013-12-11 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Closing the loop on this for the list... we deleted the Role ("crowbar_node###") from the Chef server's database (port :40404) and rebooted the node. That appears to have resolved the problem. From: Hirschfeld, Rob Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:04 AM To: Jacobs, Greg; crowbar Subject: R

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