[Rdo-list] GSoC Cloud in a Box

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:53 PM, sad man <asadxflow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

:-/  I manually do it right now.

I build the DVD with all packages in the base, install with that, set the
cache, build the rest w/ internet access.

Then I tar up the cache, rebuild the DVD w/ only the used packages and
install that.  I copy the base and my tar onto where I want to create the
repo.  Then I build the rest w/ that repo enabled and the rest enabled.

It's a two step, tedious process to produce the non-internet version.  I'm
sure there are better ways to do it :-)  I wish I had time.


>
> 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).
>
> On 18 June 2015 at 22:44, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Mohammed Arafa <
>> mohammed.arafa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> packstack works quite well for non-HA, single node installs.
>>
>> If you want to eliminate internet access after the OS install
>>
>>    - kickstart a minimal base
>>    - login & rpm -qa | sort > pkgfile
>>    - set the yum cache to save all yum installed packages
>>    - run packstack & anything else you need to install
>>    - save all the packages from the yum cache
>>    - add the rpms listed in the pkgfile to that store
>>    - run createrepo against it to create your private repo
>>
>> Now kickstart another base
>> put the private repo somewhere
>> create a repo file pointing at the private with file://
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:26 AM, sad man <asadxflow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> On 18 June 2015 at 15:52, Haïkel <hguemar at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, but configuring your OpenStack deployment from raw packages may
>>>>> be tricky and
>>>>> you won't be able to finish your GSoC if you go that path.
>>>>>
>>>>> Packstack is quite reliable and it will handle most of errors. I
>>>>> suggest that you include
>>>>> RDO packages in our ISO, that will remove the dependency on network
>>>>> hence
>>>>> the biggest failure cause.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> H.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Asadullah Hussain
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>
> Asadullah Hussain
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