[lnst trac] #10: Machine pool at controller

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#10: Machine pool at controller
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 Reporter:  rpazdera     |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:
Component:  component1   |     Version:
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 We discussed an idea concerning recipe execution today. Now you always
 need to change some parameters of the recipe in case you want to run it on
 a different set of test machines (which kinda sucks).

 Jirka proposed, that we could have a local static configuration at each
 controller, that would define a pool of available netmachineconfigs. Those
 configs would be then
 matched against some defined requirements for machines in the recipes and
 allocated
 for tests.

 This would also solve the not-very-pretty <libvirt_create> tag, because it
 would be abstracted within the pool. If there is a virtual machine in the
 pool, the interfaces could be created automatically without any other
 markup.

 I thought about the pool and it could be a drop-in configuration directory
 with netmachineconfig xmls. This approach would require a minimum of new
 code. For instance a pool could look like this:

 {{{
 /etc/lnst.conf # ini or XML file with some general
                # controller specific configuration
                # like RPC ports, available IP/MAC addr ranges

 /etc/lnst.pool.d/ # the drop-in netmachineconfig pool

 /etc/lnst.pool.d/f14-peanut.xml  # physical netmachineconfig
 /etc/lnst.pool.d/RHEL6-clone.xml # virtual one
 }}}

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#10: Machine pool at controller
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  Reporter:  rpazdera     |      Owner:  somebody
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
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Comment (by jirka):

 I agree. This is what I had on my mind.

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#10: Machine pool at controller
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  Reporter:  rpazdera    |      Owner:  somebody
      Type:              |     Status:  new
  enhancement            |  Milestone:  Allow environment independent
  Priority:  major       |  recipes
 Component:  component1  |    Version:
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Changes (by jirka):

 * milestone:   => Allow environment independent recipes


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#10: Machine pool at controller
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  Reporter:  rpazdera    |      Owner:  rpazdera
      Type:              |     Status:  assigned
  enhancement            |  Milestone:  Allow environment independent
  Priority:  major       |  recipes
 Component:  component1  |    Version:
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
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Changes (by rpazdera):

 * owner:  somebody => rpazdera
 * status:  new => assigned


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#10: Machine pool at controller
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  Reporter:  rpazdera    |      Owner:  rpazdera
      Type:              |     Status:  assigned
  enhancement            |  Milestone:  Allow environment independent
  Priority:  major       |  recipes
 Component:  component1  |    Version:
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Comment (by rpazdera):

 Patch posted:

 https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/lnst-
 developers/2012-October/000582.html

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#10: Machine pool at controller
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  Reporter:  rpazdera    |      Owner:  rpazdera
      Type:              |     Status:  assigned
  enhancement            |  Milestone:  Allow environment independent
  Priority:  major       |  recipes
 Component:  component1  |    Version:
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Comment (by rpazdera):

 Here is a draft of user manual:

 https://fedorahosted.org/lnst/wiki/MachinePool

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#10: Machine pool at controller
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  Reporter:  rpazdera    |      Owner:  rpazdera
      Type:              |     Status:  closed
  enhancement            |  Milestone:  Allow environment independent
  Priority:  major       |  recipes
 Component:  component1  |    Version:
Resolution:  fixed       |   Keywords:
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Changes (by rpazdera):

 * status:  assigned => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed


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