On Tue, 12 May 2015 17:34:24 -0600 Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2015 17:16:09 -0600 > Tim Flink <tfl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 May 2015 13:09:33 -0600 > > Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 9 May 2015 12:05:04 -0600 > > > Tim Flink <tfl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > > This was brought up a little while ago and we decided to put off > > > > the discussion a little bit but I'd like to re-start the > > > > conversation before we get too much farther with disposable > > > > clients. > > > > > > > > My plan for how our hosts would be set up once we deploy support > > > > for disposable clients is this: > > > > - virthosts would have N buildslave processes running on them > > > > - each buildslave would launch VMs for disposable clients as > > > > needed > > > > - each virthost would have access to a shared filesystem used > > > > to store at least VM images, maybe logs and other data > > > > > > Thats each virthost, not all virthosts having the same storage > > > right? > > > > All of the virthosts (at least in each group of dev/stg/prod) would > > have a chunk of shared storage used to store the canonical VM images > > that we use to boot the disposable clients (the disk changes would > > be done locally to the virthosts). This way we only have to build > > them once instead of once per virthost. > > Would it be feasable to just build them once and rsync them between > hosts? Or would you prefer shared storage? Honestly, that hadn't even occurred to me. I think it may end up depending on how we kick off the image builds but that sounds much easier and more reliable than a shared filesystem. > > In the back of my head, I'm thinking that it may make sense to store > > logs and artifacts on a chunk of shared storage instead of > > transferring everything to the taskotron master using buildbot. I > > figure that may make sense if the shared storage is already set up > > but this hasn't gotten past the "thinking about it" stage yet :). > > Yeah. We may be able to do a netapp nfs volume, we will have to see > what all we can do once we move to our new c-mode filer. I think it may be a little while before we're ready to look at doing something different for the logs and shared storage - still at step 1 "make it work" in this whole process but will keep it in mind. Thanks, Tim
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