AHAHAHA!!! "There's some more stuff we can do for other distributions. There's that OS from Redmond, right — it's an unfortunate reality that it exists, but we can help people deploy it, up until the point they wipe it completely off the face of the Earth."
2008/6/21 Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Marc Mondragon wrote: > >> >> Just saw the announcement and was wondering what was in store for cobbler >> … >> >> Marc Mondragon >> >> Fox River Financial Resources >> >> 2100 Enterprise Avenue >> Geneva, IL 60134 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > Sure :) > > Hotel internet has been slow, so apologies on being invisible over the last > few days on the lists/IRC. > > Random note: You can see the Register picked up the Cobbler talk here... > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/19/red_hat_summit_2008_cobbler/ > > They are correct in saying that what we're doing with Cobbler, the libvirt > tools, Func, and so forth were a major factor in making the decision to open > source Satellite. This community *works*. Getting Satellite out there is > clearly something we all wanted to do for a long time, and now that it's > done, we're /really/ happy to see the excitement growing around it. We've > shown we can build a sizable community around developers and admins who want > to share and participate in developing common infrastructure. We've shown > that the open development models started in Fedora are extremely applicable > in the enterprise space (see also EPEL). With Spacewalk, this can grow > further. Spacewalk is essentially going to be an aggregrator of all sorts of > great OSS management projects in Fedora/EPEL -- we want it to become an > interface to make all of these more usable together. Step 1 is Cobbler, Step > 2 might be config management, it might be something else ... we're still > exploring. > > I was sitting around at FudCON today with lots of folks, many Satellite > users, some not, discussing the future of the project. There's a ton of > interest here and it's going to be a good thing. There's already folks > interested in diving in there and helping with database support, for > instance. People on IRC are already looking at the code and talking about > sending in patches. Very good stuff. > > Cobbler inclusion in Satellite/Spacewalk is definitely in the roadmap, and > as I mentioned in my talk (slides up now -- > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/PresentationStorage ) we're shooting > for early 2009 for having that there. If you want support for Cobbler you'll > be able to get that (AFAIK) through purchasing Satellite. In addition, the > Satellite GUI's provisioning options, since they will be all Cobbler > powered, will work to control cobbler -- so you'll have additional GUI > options. Cobbler command line programs will still work as normal in this > case too, as will koan. Also if you're an existing Satellite user we want > the upgrade process to be transparent. I suspect we won't surface every > Cobbler knob and fader in the Spacewalk GUI, though you'll still be able to > manipulate cobbler directly in those cases. As myself and the Sat folks have > to do some more planning, this is somewhat subject to change. I'll start a > thread up on spacewalk-devel shortly. If you're interested, definitely join > the mailing lists mentioned at fedorahosted.org/spacewalk and #spacewalk > on freenode. Development/planning is going to happen in the open there just > like it does here, so if there's something you'd like to see in Spacewalk, > please weigh in! > > So, what about stand alone Cobbler? Cobbler as a project will be continuing > on as usual and continuing it's quest for dominance :) You won't need to > install Spacewalk to use it, as there are other applications (ovirt, > possibly test tools, etc) that will want to have a provisioning service > component -- Cobbler is going to be that component. Does it go away? No. > Does it become harder to use? No. More dependencies? Also no :) It's all > good! > > I suspect there will be a few Cobbler RFE's and changes needed to make > Satellite support work (maybe a few more XMLRPC methods?), but I don't see > any major roadmap changes. > > From Summit conversations so far there seems to be a lot of interest in > image management and the power stuff (we may spawn a seperate FedoraHosted > project for the power bits), so that's definitely on my shortlist. And that > means Satellite/Spacewalk can then acquire those features too. > > --Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools >
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