[Rdo-list] GSoC Cloud in a Box

[Tom Buskey]

It also seems that packstack enables epel and the openstack-<version> repos
internally even if they're disabled.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

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