<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0b5394">Thanks Tom, That's a great way to go about it but it totally eliminates any programming/development from the task and as it is summer of code I need to implement an open source code base. So do you have any suggestions for me regarding maybe extending your idea to do some development?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0b5394">Otherwise currently based on responses on this thread, I am going for directly interfacing pack-stack with Anaconda (need to do more research on exact nuts & bolts of it).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 June 2015 at 22:44, Tom Buskey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@buskey.name" target="_blank">tom@buskey.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Mohammed Arafa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mohammed.arafa@gmail.com" target="_blank">mohammed.arafa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I am no programmer but packstack has taken 2 years or more to get where it is today by a team of developers (well definitely more than one :) ). I would not assume a single person can get anything reasonably close to that in one summer.<br><br></div>from a sysadmin point of view, i'd think a kickstart file with a post install section containing the path to packstack and the parameters needed would be the method i'd use to deploy what you want. you can translate that into anaconda syntax/language/format if you like<br><br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>packstack works quite well for non-HA, single node installs.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to eliminate internet access after the OS install</div><div><ul><li>kickstart a minimal base<br></li><li>login & rpm -qa | sort > pkgfile</li><li>set the yum cache to save all yum installed packages</li><li>run packstack & anything else you need to install</li><li>save all the packages from the yum cache</li><li>add the rpms listed in the pkgfile to that store</li><li>run createrepo against it to create your private repo</li></ul><div>Now kickstart another base</div></div><div>put the private repo somewhere</div><div>create a repo file pointing at the private with file://</div><div><br></div><div>I'd suggest putting the original repo files on, but disabled. If you need a yum update beyond what's on the DVD, you can enable them and get them over the net as needed.</div><div><div class="h5"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:26 AM, sad man <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asadxflow@gmail.com" target="_blank">asadxflow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0b5394">Thanks a lot, So you are suggesting that I add RDO packages in ISO and integrate packstack with Anaconda instead of writing my own OpenStack installer script?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 June 2015 at 15:52, Haïkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hguemar@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">hguemar@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah, but configuring your OpenStack deployment from raw packages may<br>
be tricky and<br>
you won't be able to finish your GSoC if you go that path.<br>
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Packstack is quite reliable and it will handle most of errors. I<br>
suggest that you include<br>
RDO packages in our ISO, that will remove the dependency on network hence<br>
the biggest failure cause.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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