On 12 March 2012 07:22, Jeroen Vermeulen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-03-12 13:08, Julian Edwards wrote: > >> The reason I don't really want to start syncing with cobbler is >> because we need maas to be authoritative in terms of state. As you >> know, we will remove cobbler at some point and that would make it >> easier. > > It's also important for future scaling. It's really not a good > thing to have ORM operations in maasserver block on pserv blocking > on cobbler. > > Ultimately, I'd like to see the query methods disappear from the > pserv API again.
Yes, agreed. > Besides the power-control method, what do we need from the cobbler > database? IP addresses spring to mind, but could we let the node > get them through whatever DHCP is available and then let cloud-init > provide them to the metadata service? There is also the choice of distro/profile that needs to be obtained from Cobbler. However, as Julian suggested last week, we may be able to arrange this to always select Precise. Gavin. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
