Saurav, I do not object against using the systemvm. It seems inconvenient to me, that's all. If you have your own template you can deploy your add-on recardless of the underlying ACS. Maybe I am being over paranoid so don't take my reaction as -1 or such.
happy new year, On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Saurav Lahiri <saurav.lah...@sungard.com> wrote: > Daan, > Appreciate your feedback. > > To clarify, yes the plans based on an earlier suggestion by chiradeep is to > go ahead > and provide a logsearch service which will be available to be used > optionally. > The service by itself would not require any changes to the cloudstack core > and > could be made available through a bunch of python scripts in addition to > the required > packages. > > Post the previous discussion I believed that there was no objection against > using the > system vm template. But if there are concerns around this then we can keep > it open to > any linux template or the default centOS template. > > I understand that hosting templates with all the packages prebuilt into > would not be > an option considering that cloudstack does not host templates (other than > the > default and systevm). Do let me know if thats not the case and > download.cloud.com can > indeed host different types of templates. > > Thanks > Saurav > > > > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Saurav, >> >> I do appreciate the cause you are championing but is this to be part >> of the cloudstack core? shouldn't this functionality be an add-on that >> can be optionally installed (using it's own template)? >> >> regards, >> >> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Saurav Lahiri >> <saurav.lah...@sungard.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I am currently looking into cloudstack-3471 , wiki link beolw. >> > ( >> > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/API+to+extract+the+log+statements+by+jobid >> > ). >> > >> > As part of it I was was planning on deploying and using default system >> vms >> > to host >> > the logstash+elasticsearch indexing/searching layer. After a bit of >> > investigation it >> > appears that in cloudstack currently there is no way to deploy and start >> > default >> > system vms. Is that correct. If thats the case I am proposing a root >> admin >> > API to >> > deploy a default system vm. The idea is that this system vm can be used >> to >> > host >> > additional add on services by installing additional tools/packages as >> > required. >> > For eg: for the logsearchservice , the api should first deploy and start >> > default >> > system vm , then additional configuration scripts will install and >> > configure the >> > (logstash and elasticsearch). This would be convenient for >> admininstrators >> > and >> > they can start querying cloudstack logs by jobid without requiring to >> > download >> > additional templates or worry about other dependencies like java. . The >> > existing >> > mechanism of using ssh port 3922 and link local ip address for >> > communication >> > with the system vm would still stand. >> > >> > Would greatly appreciate feedback/suggestions on this proposal. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Saurav >> >>
