Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Prince
-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On 8 January 2014 12:18, James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, the crux of the problem was likely that versions in the distro

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Jay Pipes's message of 2014-01-07 21:26:44 -0800: On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 17:20 +1300, Robert Collins wrote: On 8 January 2014 12:18, James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, the crux of the problem was likely that versions in the distro were too old and they needed to

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Derek Higgins
On 08/01/14 05:07, Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's message of 2014-01-07 16:27:35 -0800: Another piece to the conversation I think is update philosophy. If you are always going to require a new image and no customization after build ever, ever, the messiness that source usually

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Jan Provaznik
On 01/07/2014 09:01 PM, James Slagle wrote: Hi, I'd like to discuss some possible ways we could install the OpenStack components from packages in tripleo-image-elements. As most folks are probably aware, there is a fork of tripleo-image-elements called tripleo-puppet-elements which does

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread James Slagle
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On 8 January 2014 12:18, James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, the crux of the problem was likely that versions in the distro were too old and they needed to be updated. But unless we take on building

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Jay Dobies
There were so many places in this thread that I wanted to jump in on as I caught up, it makes sense to just summarize things in once place instead of a half dozen quoted replies. I agree with the sentiments about flexibility. Regardless of my personal preference on source v. packages, it's

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Derek Higgins's message of 2014-01-08 02:11:09 -0800: On 08/01/14 05:07, Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's message of 2014-01-07 16:27:35 -0800: Another piece to the conversation I think is update philosophy. If you are always going to require a new image and no

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-01-08 07:03:39 -0800: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On 8 January 2014 12:18, James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, the crux of the problem was likely that versions in the distro were

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Jay Dobies's message of 2014-01-08 08:09:51 -0800: There were so many places in this thread that I wanted to jump in on as I caught up, it makes sense to just summarize things in once place instead of a half dozen quoted replies. I agree with the sentiments about flexibility.

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Jan Provaznik's message of 2014-01-08 03:00:19 -0800: On 01/07/2014 09:01 PM, James Slagle wrote: Hi, I'd like to discuss some possible ways we could install the OpenStack components from packages in tripleo-image-elements. As most folks are probably aware, there is a

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Fox, Kevin M
, there isn't one works for all cases best tool. I hope this use case helps. Thanks, Kevin From: Clint Byrum [cl...@fewbar.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 8:36 AM To: openstack-dev Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Clint Byrum
We're in agreement. What little entry there might be in a system of such a small size would be entirely manageable by a single administrator... I care about that deployment, deeply, as that is how things like OpenStack take root in IT departments.. with somebody playing around. However, what I

[openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread James Slagle
Hi, I'd like to discuss some possible ways we could install the OpenStack components from packages in tripleo-image-elements. As most folks are probably aware, there is a fork of tripleo-image-elements called tripleo-puppet-elements which does install using packages, but it does so using Puppet

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Fox, Kevin M
[james.sla...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 12:01 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements Hi, I'd like to discuss some possible ways we could install the OpenStack components from packages

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Clint Byrum
What would be the benefit of using packages? We've specifically avoided packages because they complect[1] configuration and system state management with software delivery. The recent friction we've seen with MySQL is an example where the packages are not actually helping us, they're hurting us

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread James Slagle
[james.sla...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 12:01 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements Hi, I'd like to discuss some possible ways we could install the OpenStack components from packages

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
Hi My guess for the easiest answer to that: distro vendor support. Cheers, -- Chris Jones On 7 Jan 2014, at 20:23, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: What would be the benefit of using packages? We've specifically avoided packages because they complect[1] configuration and system state

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Assuming we want to do this, but not necessarily agreeing that we do want to, I would suggest: 1) I think it would be nice if we could avoid separate dpkg/rpm types by having a package type and reusing the package map facility. 2) Clear up the source-repositories inconsistency by making it

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread James Slagle
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: What would be the benefit of using packages? We're building images on top of different distributions of Linux. Those distributions themselves offer packaged and supported OpenStack components. So, one benefit is that you'd be

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
, January 07, 2014 12:01 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements Hi, I'd like to discuss some possible ways we could install the OpenStack components from packages in tripleo-image-elements. As most

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Fox, Kevin M
: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements Hi Assuming we want to do this, but not necessarily agreeing that we do want to, I would suggest: 1) I think it would be nice if we could avoid separate dpkg/rpm types by having a package type and reusing the package

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread James Slagle
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Chris Jones c...@tenshu.net wrote: Hi Assuming we want to do this, but not necessarily agreeing that we do want to, I would suggest: 1) I think it would be nice if we could avoid separate dpkg/rpm types by having a package type and reusing the package map

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-01-07 12:53:57 -0800: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: What would be the benefit of using packages? We're building images on top of different distributions of Linux. Those distributions themselves offer packaged

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
Hi On 7 Jan 2014, at 21:17, James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com wrote: Could you expand on this a bit? I'm not sure what inconsistency you're referring to. That multiple repos work, but the docs don't say so, and the DIB_REPO foo doesn't support multiple repos. I wonder if we could

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
Hi On 7 Jan 2014, at 22:18, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Packages do the opposite, and encourage entropy by promising to try and update software Building with packages doesn't require updating running systems with packages and more than building with git requires updating running

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread James Slagle
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-01-07 12:53:57 -0800: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: What would be the benefit of using packages? We're building images on top of different

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Chris Jones's message of 2014-01-07 14:43:31 -0800: Hi On 7 Jan 2014, at 22:18, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Packages do the opposite, and encourage entropy by promising to try and update software Building with packages doesn't require updating running systems

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's message of 2014-01-07 13:11:13 -0800: I was going to stay silent on this one, but since you asked... /me puts his customer hat on We source OpenStack from RDO for the packages and additional integration testing that comes from the project instead of using

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread James Slagle
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from Chris Jones's message of 2014-01-07 14:43:31 -0800: Hi On 7 Jan 2014, at 22:18, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Packages do the opposite, and encourage entropy by promising to try and update software

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Byrum [cl...@fewbar.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 3:04 PM To: openstack-dev Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements Excerpts from Chris Jones's message of 2014-01-07 14:43:31 -0800: Hi On 7 Jan 2014, at 22:18, Clint Byrum cl

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-01-07 15:03:33 -0800: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-01-07 12:53:57 -0800: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: What would be the

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread James Slagle
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's message of 2014-01-07 13:11:13 -0800: I was going to stay silent on this one, but since you asked... /me puts his customer hat on We source OpenStack from RDO for the packages and additional

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - From: James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com To: OpenStack Development Mailing List openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 3:01:07 PM Subject: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements Hi

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - From: James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 3:53:57 PM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
Hi On 7 Jan 2014, at 23:04, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: My question still stands, what are the real advantages? So far the only one that matters to me is makes it easier for people to think about using it. If I were to put on my former sysadmin hat, I would always strongly prefer

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - From: Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com To: openstack-dev openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 3:23:24 PM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements What would be the benefit of using

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Fox, Kevin M
-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's message of 2014-01-07 13:11:13 -0800: I was going to stay silent on this one, but since you asked... /me puts his customer

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread James Slagle
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-01-07 15:03:33 -0800: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-01-07 12:53:57 -0800: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-01-07 15:18:00 -0800: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Excerpts from Chris Jones's message of 2014-01-07 14:43:31 -0800: Hi On 7 Jan 2014, at 22:18, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: Packages do the

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Robert Collins
On 8 January 2014 12:26, Fox, Kevin M kevin@pnnl.gov wrote: One of the major features using a distro over upstream gives is integration. rhel6 behaves differently then ubuntu 13.10. Sometimes it takes a while to fix upstream for a given distro, and even then it may not even be accepted

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Robert Collins
On 8 January 2014 09:23, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: What would be the benefit of using packages? - Defense in depth - tests at the package build time + tests of the image. - Enumeration of installed software using the admins expected tooling (dpkg / rpm etc) - Familiarity We've

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Robert Collins
On 8 January 2014 12:18, James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com wrote: I'm reminded of when I first started looking at TripleO there were a few issues with installing from git (I'll say that from now on :) related to all the python distribute - setuptools migration. Things like if you're base

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's message of 2014-01-07 16:27:35 -0800: Another piece to the conversation I think is update philosophy. If you are always going to require a new image and no customization after build ever, ever, the messiness that source usually cause in the file system image really

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Jay Pipes
On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 17:20 +1300, Robert Collins wrote: On 8 January 2014 12:18, James Slagle james.sla...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, the crux of the problem was likely that versions in the distro were too old and they needed to be updated. But unless we take on building the whole OS from