Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress [for appliances]

2014-02-06 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Mike Spreitzer's message of 2014-02-05 22:17:50 -0800: From: Prasad Vellanki prasad.vella...@oneconvergence.com To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org, Date: 01/21/2014 02:16 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [heat

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress [for appliances]

2014-02-06 Thread Steven Dake
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress Steve Clint That should work. We will look at implementing a resource that spins up a shortlived VM for bootstrapping a service VM and informing configuration server for further configuration. thanks prasadv On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress [for appliances]

2014-02-06 Thread Prasad Vellanki
@lists.openstack.org, Date: 01/21/2014 02:16 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress Steve Clint That should work. We will look at implementing a resource that spins up a shortlived VM for bootstrapping a service VM and informing configuration server for further

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Spreitzer
From: Steven Dake sd...@redhat.com ... The crux of the problem is how do you obtain critical mass for custom one-off solutions? Lets assume two possible solutions to this problem that these vendors could take. If there are more, please feel free to explain them: 1) Implement a ReST

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress [for appliances]

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Spreitzer
From: Prasad Vellanki prasad.vella...@oneconvergence.com To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org, Date: 01/21/2014 02:16 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress Steve Clint That should work. We

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-20 Thread Prasad Vellanki
Steve Clint That should work. We will look at implementing a resource that spins up a shortlived VM for bootstrapping a service VM and informing configuration server for further configuration. thanks prasadv On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Steven Dake sd...@redhat.com wrote: On 01/14/2014

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-15 Thread Steven Dake
On 01/14/2014 09:27 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Prasad Vellanki's message of 2014-01-14 18:41:46 -0800: Steve I did not mean to have custom solution at all. In fact that would be terrible. I think Heat model of software config and deployment is really good. That allows configurators

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-14 Thread Steven Dake
On 01/14/2014 12:23 AM, Prasad Vellanki wrote: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Steven Dake sd...@redhat.com mailto:sd...@redhat.com wrote: that Steve Thanks for detailed email. Apologize for the delayed response but we have been thinking about how does software config fit into

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-14 Thread Clint Byrum
Hey Steve, it has taken me about a month to get enough time to go through this. Thanks for doing it, comments in-line. Excerpts from Steve Baker's message of 2013-12-13 15:46:48 -0800: I've been working on a POC in heat for resources which perform software configuration, with the aim of

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-14 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Prasad Vellanki's message of 2014-01-13 23:23:15 -0800: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Steven Dake sd...@redhat.com wrote: that Steve Thanks for detailed email. Apologize for the delayed response but we have been thinking about how does software config fit into

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-14 Thread Prasad Vellanki
Steve I did not mean to have custom solution at all. In fact that would be terrible. I think Heat model of software config and deployment is really good. That allows configurators such as Chef, Puppet, Salt or Ansible to be plugged into it and all users need to write are modules for those. What

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-14 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Prasad Vellanki's message of 2014-01-14 18:41:46 -0800: Steve I did not mean to have custom solution at all. In fact that would be terrible. I think Heat model of software config and deployment is really good. That allows configurators such as Chef, Puppet, Salt or Ansible to

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-13 Thread Prasad Vellanki
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Steven Dake sd...@redhat.com wrote: that Steve Thanks for detailed email. Apologize for the delayed response but we have been thinking about how does software config fit into configuring network and service function devices. I agree with you that in general it

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-09 Thread Steven Dake
On 01/08/2014 06:57 PM, Prasad Vellanki wrote: Clint Steve One scenario we are trying to see is whether and how Heat software-config enables deployment of images available from third party as virtual appliances, providing network, security or acceleration capabilities. The vendor in some

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-08 Thread Prasad Vellanki
Clint Steve One scenario we are trying to see is whether and how Heat software-config enables deployment of images available from third party as virtual appliances, providing network, security or acceleration capabilities. The vendor in some cases might not allow rebuilding and/or may not

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-07 Thread Susaant Kondapaneni
We work with images provided by vendors over which we do not always have control. So we are considering the cases where vendor image does not come installed with cloud-init. Is there a way to support heat software config in such scenarios? Thanks Susaant On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Steve

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-07 Thread Clint Byrum
I'd say it isn't so much cloud-init that you need, but some kind of bootstrapper. The point of hot-software-config is to help with in-instance orchestration. That's not going to happen without some way to push the desired configuration into the instance. Excerpts from Susaant Kondapaneni's

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-06 Thread Susaant Kondapaneni
Hi Steve, I am trying to understand the software config implementation. Can you clarify the following: i. To use Software config and deploy in a template, instance resource MUST always be accompanied by user_data. User_data should specify how to bootstrap CM tool and signal it. Is that correct?

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-06 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Susaant Kondapaneni's message of 2014-01-06 09:25:08 -0800: Hi Steve, I am trying to understand the software config implementation. Can you clarify the following: i. To use Software config and deploy in a template, instance resource MUST always be accompanied by user_data.

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Sofware Config progress

2014-01-06 Thread Steve Baker
On 07/01/14 06:25, Susaant Kondapaneni wrote: Hi Steve, I am trying to understand the software config implementation. Can you clarify the following: i. To use Software config and deploy in a template, instance resource MUST always be accompanied by user_data. User_data should specify how