Salih, Thanks for this very thorough report back to the mailing list summarizing off list chop discussions. I wish every project at Apache followed this procedure as well as we do here at Usergrid. Well done!
Right now a custom AMI with the Oracle JDK created by users should float our Usergrid testing needs for the short term and for others we have option #1. Dave is this sufficient for now? Option #4 seems ideal: let's go with implementing that mechanism for the long term if others agree as well. Thoughts? Thanks, Alex On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Salih Kardan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Chop uses AWS EC2 instances to run both chop webapp and runners (instances > which run tests). > We tried hard to make everything as easy as possible in Chop and currently > we are providing an AMI > for runners on which Oracle Java is already installed. However it is not > legal to distribute Oracle Java > in such a public platform, so we had a discussion in our chop team. Here > are the different options > that came out from that discussion, please feel free to comment. > > > (1) We may provide a public AMI with OpenJDK, actually we already created > one for runner instances. > But, although our runner core runs properly with OpenJDK, code that's going > to be Chop tested may > have problems with it, so it's at users risk to go this way. > > (2) We may ask user to provide a link on chop web UI to download oracle tar > ball if he/she wants Oracle JDK > on runner instances. After we download tar ball using that link, we will > install Oracle Java to runner instances. > This way user will have already dealt with license approval process. (User > may provide S3 bucket address for this) > > (3) We may ask user to approve the Oracle license agreement with a popup > window while he/she configures > runner instances on web UI, then we can download tar ball from Oracle's > website using wget as explained in > the below link and install it on runner instances. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10268583/how-to-automate-download-and-installation-of-java-jdk-on-linux > . > > (4) Option #2 and #3 may take a lot time, since on each runner instance > creation, it'll download the tar ball either from link > that user provide or Oracle's website, extract it, configure and install > it. > Therefore we came up with option #4 : > > Chop web UI may have a separate tool, or an option on UI, so that if the > user wants his private AMI with Oracle JDK > installed inside he can again accept the license agreement, then we open up > an EC2 instance, download & install the > Oracle JDK than make that instance a private AMI for the user, and put its > AMI id in image ID section in the UI. > This way, users can have their private AMIs with just a couple of clicks > and the setup time will not be affected. > > Among these options, #1 is ready to use and other options are possible > candidates to be implemented if we agree on them. > Out of these options, of course user can create its own private AMI, and > provide its AMI id to chop web UI to start using Chop. > > Regards, > Salih > -- Best Regards, -- Alex
