Re: Local test VMs (was: Status of OwnCloud/NextCloud)

[James Hogarth]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, 16:11 Tim Landscheidt, <tim(a)tim-landscheidt.de&gt; wrote:

>  James Hogarth <james.hogarth(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
>  > […]
>
>  > FIrst thing when I fired up my test harness was that F28 has changed,
>  > and thus broken, kickstart for the user option compared to a standard
>  > minimal that worked going back to F22 and EL7 so that had to be
>  > debugged and fixed ... done
>
>  > Next things is the ansible that I use to test ... well the lovely
>  > folks jumping the gun on dropping python2-* packages is making life
>  > painful since ansible still uses python2 by default and not everything
>  > support python3 yet. There is no python2-firewall anymore for the
>  > ansible firewalld module ... yay another silly thing to work around!
>
>  > […]
>
>  BTW, it would be very nice if there was (maintained) docu-
>  mentation on how to generate Fedora VMs and for example use
>  Ansible to configure complex interactive test setups.
>  James's article
>  (https://fedoramagazine.org/day-life-fedora-packager/) is
>  mouth-watering, but lacking detail and probably outdated by
>  now.
>
>  I'm sure that many Fedora packagers have their own ("obvi-
>  ous") solutions, but having something general could lower
>  the bar for new packagers who do not want to dive deep into
>  all the minutiae just to test a release.
>
>  Tim
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Would it surprise you to know that it is actually still valid and not
really outdated? ;)

If you'd like me to write something more detailed I'd be happy to do so...
after we have oC/nC updated ;)

There is a bunch of relevant material on my blog you may be interested in
though that goes into more detail on the process of the test environment...
but didn't feel relevant for the magazine...

Start with building of rpms:

https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/11

Then move on to configuring your system for dynamic ansible inventory of
libvirt guests:

https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/12

This one covers my vmcreate (to make a new guest entirely), vmprep (to
prepare a template for cloning) and vmclone (guess what this does? )
scripts to make generating test instances easier...

https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/13

This reminds me I really need to finish and publish my pending stuff...
sudo mktime?

Feel free to contact me about any of this or the scripts I have on github
if you want to build something


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