On Tuesday 09 of August 2016 08:22:38 Matt Darcy wrote: > I've been doing a little bit of POC work on foreman 1.11 with EC2 (not > bothered moving to 1.12 for this POC as it's not really version specific). > > when building/modifying a host the EC2 compute plugin pulls a list of > subnets assigned to the account/compute resource associated to the foreman > compute resource target. this is nice and simple to use, however some > recent experience of what is in essence quite a small AWS estate, 6 VPCs, > at 9 subnets each, this become quite scappy as the list of 54 IP subnets, > totally out of any order was presented to the support team and without any > meaningful information about the subnets removed some of the ease and > management selling points that using foreman for the project been built on. > > In the POC I started looking at the ability to pull not only the IP CIDR > blocks but the comment field associated with the CIDR blocks. > > My initial tests look like it's possible to get the info, and I'd imagine > it's not too hard to create a second display box next to the IP list to > list the comments, or include a second field in the single box, but I'm > nowhere near that yet > > I thought I'd open up a short discussion (hopefully) about this as a > feature request and see if there is anything I've not considered > implication wise or anything I'd not seen the bigger picture on before > raising the feature request and looking to work on it and gather some > people to work on it. > > I'm currently looking at foreman for a much bigger EC2 deployment, which > will have many more subnets and without something human readable it will be > a much harder sell to use going forward. > > thoughts ? > > Matt
Hello that sounds as a good addition to me. I'd prefer combining into a single select box, the second one would be hard to get in sync. I can imagine the comment being too long so some trimming might be considered. -- Marek -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
