Ken, I believe that the Beaker server software requires RHEL/CentOS 7 to run. I don't think it yet runs on RHEL/CentOS 8. Hopefully someone will correct me if I am wrong.
The clients can install many different operating system versions on them. John On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 6:58 PM Ken Strandberg <k...@catlowcommunications.com> wrote: > > Hi Martin, > I'm back at setting up beaker and running into issues that I can't debug. > How/where do I go to get guidance? > > Thanks. > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:43 AM Martin Styk <martin.s...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:40 PM Ken Strandberg >> <k...@catlowcommunications.com> wrote: >> > >> > My organization is putting together a beaker cluster for testing on ever >> > advancing hardware. We are concerned about launching the cluster on >> > RHEL/CentOS 7 because they are no longer supported, which may result in >> > challenges in testing new hardware. I am evaluating building the cluster >> > on CentOS8, but, beaker-server fails with the following during >> > installation: >> > >> > Error: >> > Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job >> > - nothing provides python-netaddr needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-lxml needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-decorator needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-jinja2 needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-flask needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-gssapi needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-itsdangerous needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-ldap needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-passlib needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-pwquality needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-sqlalchemy >= 0.9 needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > - nothing provides python-requests >= 1.0 needed by >> > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch >> > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' >> > to use not only best candidate packages) >> > >> > I suspect it's because beaker uses OS ver 7 with python2 and RHEL/CentOS8 >> > installs python3. I installed python2 and tried adding the missing python >> > packages, running update, flushing cache, etc, and it still fails with the >> > same. >> > >> > I can easily build the server on CentOS7. It's flawless to get the daemon >> > running. But, we are concerned about the maintenance OS and emerging >> > hardware. Is there a way to get server to run on OS 8, and will it be >> > ported to 8 and python3 in the near future? >> >> Hi Ken, >> >> Thank you for asking. >> Yes. Beaker will not work on RHEL 8 at this moment due to codebase. >> The codebase is not ready for Python 3 (used in RHEL8). At this point, >> we added full support for Beaker-client + Beaker-common. So people on >> fedora can fully use Beaker CLI as they were used to. Plans for adding >> support for Python 3 in whole codebase are considered. However, I >> can't say it will be in the short term. >> >> I would suggest you go with RHEL 7 - This is how we are operating with >> Beaker in RH (Biggest silo of Beaker I'm aware of). >> >> If you any further questions don't hesitate ask or hit me directly. >> >> Best regards, >> Martin Styk >> Senior Software Engineer, Beaker Tech lead, PnT Infrastructure >> Management and Automation >> martin.s...@redhat.com >> 713F EAF6 27C8 5BFE 070F 06EC 8839 4E84 D11A 98FE >> > >> > -- >> > --------------- >> > Ken Strandberg >> > Catlow Communications >> > Technical Marketing Writing for Web, Print, Film/Video >> > www.catlowcommunications.com >> > k...@catlowcommunications.com >> > 775-690-6575 (v) >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Beaker-devel mailing list -- beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to beaker-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org >> > Fedora Code of Conduct: >> > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > List Archives: >> > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org >> > > > -- > --------------- > Ken Strandberg > Catlow Communications > Technical Marketing Writing for Web, Print, Film/Video > www.catlowcommunications.com > k...@catlowcommunications.com > 775-690-6575 (v) > > _______________________________________________ > Beaker-devel mailing list -- beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > To unsubscribe send an email to beaker-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org _______________________________________________ Beaker-devel mailing list -- beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to beaker-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
