[one-users] OneFlow with Chef ? AppStage is gone ?

Javier Fontan jfontan at opennebula.org
Thu Aug 22 08:30:08 PDT 2013


I don't think you can install it even as a separate component.
Sunstone changed quite a lot and it is incompatible.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Zeeshan Ali Shah <zashah at pdc.kth.se> wrote:
> Thanks Javier,
>
> It will be really good to have integrated in 4.x .
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> Do you think we can install it as a separate component ?
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> Zee
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> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> We didn't have time to port AppStage to 4.2 and we are evaluating its
>> usefulness as a standalone component.
>>
>> If you are going to use the server mode of chef then you don't need
>> much in the VMs appart from chef itself. What you do need is to have
>> proper host names in your VMs and register the hostname in chef server
>> beforehand with its configuration.
>>
>> I found this server mode a bit cumbersome for our needs and chosen a
>> chef solo approach where a init script downloaded the recipes from a
>> repository and a manifests and run chef solo with a parameter in
>> contextualization. Something like this:
>>
>> * Web server with a directory for recipes and other for manifests
>> * init script:
>>   * downloads recipes and manifests to some known directories
>>   * starts chef solo giving the recipes directory and the manifest
>> chosen in the context
>>
>> When creating the VM you can add a context variable stating which
>> manifest to use, like
>>
>> MANIFEST="web_server"
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>>
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>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Zeeshan Ali Shah <zashah at pdc.kth.se>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi, in 4.2 appstage is gone ? or replace with other . I am looking to
>> > use
>> > chef in open-nebula any hint ?
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Zeeshan Ali Shah
>> > System Administrator - PDC HPC
>> > PhD researcher (IT security)
>> > Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan
>> > +46 8 790 9115
>> > http://www.pdc.kth.se/members/zashah
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> --
>
> Regards
>
> Zeeshan Ali Shah
> System Administrator - PDC HPC
> PhD researcher (IT security)
> Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan
> +46 8 790 9115
> http://www.pdc.kth.se/members/zashah



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