Planning: Beaker

[Nick Coghlan]

On 12/12/2014 06:51 AM, Tim Flink wrote:
> We've been talking about Beaker in Fedora for a while now and while we
> do have a deployment available, its functionality is limited by the way
> that it's setup. We're currently waiting for an RFE in Beaker which
> will fix the biggest problem of log URLs not being resolvable. The
> Beaker devs are planning to have this done sometime in January:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149944
> 
> 
> There's still a lot of work that would need to be done before we can
> offer Beaker as a production service:
> 
> - Finish planning out system architecture (network topology, client
>   access, isolation etc.)
> 
> - Get Beaker systems into infra ansible
> 
> - Add the bare metal boxes we've allocated for Beaker to the system
> 
> - Add nightly rawhide composes (and eventually branched TC/RC
>   composes) to Beaker
> 
> - Figure out a way to auth against FAS
>   * I've done some poking here but it still needs work to play nice
>     with OpenID or Persona.
>   * Group integration would be nice but not strictly required for an
>     initial deployment

If there's anything the Beaker team can help with for these, feel free
to file additional RFEs in Bugzilla.

The higher level distro import utility RFE [1] that's been kicking
around for ages may also be of interest for
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/437

Cheers,
Nick.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958590

P.S. I'm about to head off on PTO for 3 weeks, and then I'll be at
linux.conf.au for a week, but Dan and the rest of the Beaker team will
be around except for the Christmas -> New Year period.

-- 
Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Hosted & Shared Services
Software Engineering & Development, Brisbane

HSS Provisioning Architect