Hello Brian. The problem with FreeIPA is that it relies on Kerberos. We also have a lot of clusters that uses FreeIPA, we also added automount maps on it for NFS. It's good when it works. But when it breaks is a pain in the ass.
We are re-evaluating FreeIPA. Perhaps using only plain 389ds, but we still didn't know. We use FreeIPA with xCAT, not with Confluent. Confluent is good, but lacking documentation is very concerning. Regards. On 30 Oct 2024, at 20:03, Brian Joiner <martinitime1...@gmail.com> wrote: Hey Stu! Long time no see! I like it. The docs are a little rough around the edges, not as extensive as xCAT but between the quick start guide and a few other articles I was able to get it working. And the support in this forum has been really good. Using FreeIPA as my identity (ldap) and DNS manager for the cluster has been the key. Confluent doesn't have to control everything, and FreeIPA has made my life so much easier for management and confluent deployments. I prefer it over using local host file management, plus it has all kinds of capabilities (like managing sudo rules). The only real issue I have is the error message output, I'm not great at deciphering all the python lol. I'd like to see some refinement of the documentation (like a matrix of commands and tasks translated from xCAT to Confluent, a cheat sheet if you will), but that's it. It's got a lot of improvements and capabilities. I use it on my home lab and at work, very happy with it. Brian Joiner On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM Noah, Stuart via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: Hi Brian, What is your opinion of Confluent? The message threads lately seem to indicate that that the direction is to migrate folks to that rather than continue releases of Xcat… We have our new cluster on Bright, but that is a cash hog… and overkill for the development environment that we are currently redesigning. Thanks, Stu From: Russell Jones <arjone...@gmail.com<mailto:arjone...@gmail.com>> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2024 7:40 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] xCAT Consortium Update For what it's worth all, I headed up migrating the company I work for to Warewulf. There's a bit of a learning curve because it does things quite differently, but the documentation is decent and the developers are very active in their For what it's worth all, I headed up migrating the company I work for to Warewulf. There's a bit of a learning curve because it does things quite differently, but the documentation is decent and the developers are very active in their Slack channel and receptive to helping when you get stuck.... and there were several things I got stuck on :-) One is we needed to be able to support multiple networks from a single manager just like xCAT (warewulf doesn't have that capability out of the box). The developers helped, and it was totally doable with some minor configuration file edits. Another "major" thing is you are on your own for writing your own systemd script to launch postscripts after a node boots. Warewulf does not have a built-in capability for postscripts. Again, totally doable. I would recommend moving to Warewulf. On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 1:20 PM Glick, Bill <bgl...@illinois.edu<mailto:bgl...@illinois.edu>> wrote: Thank you, Markus. I want to apologize for the tone of my original email. You had given an update about this on May 10, 2024<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sourceforge.net/p/xcat/mailman/message/58770579/__;!!KOmnBZxC8_2BBQ!3BDzbG93wbVijU0gAjAOFnVSIVYSX71pqAYb4UgJAciajsalv8A98jWYpm4rigz6kC73dc-lQ6WphbxwCFyB$>, but I was having trouble locating that when I sent this latest enquiry. I have been using the last development release<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/yum/devel/core-snap/__;!!DZ3fjg!4r59aVCvn4jsWNCCrHAh6xyrgu5mx6BI9J0SxQ-d0TGtijvuu86F-dHJdhhvulngQh7UVfY6X1ZJUe-x7E-_X1DEjgU$> for the last week. It is working well for us. Thanks! - Bill Glick From: Markus Hilger <markus.hil...@megware.com<mailto:markus.hil...@megware.com>> Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 10:56 AM To: Glick, Bill <bgl...@illinois.edu<mailto:bgl...@illinois.edu>>, xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: AW: xCAT Consortium Update Hi Bill, yes, we are still here :) However, as we are all only following the project on the side, things are sometimes progressing a little slower than we would like. The current plan is to release 2.17<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/milestone/53__;!!DZ3fjg!4r59aVCvn4jsWNCCrHAh6xyrgu5mx6BI9J0SxQ-d0TGtijvuu86F-dHJdhhvulngQh7UVfY6X1ZJUe-x7E-_I0DJmgo$> before Supercomputing this year. The codebase is ready, and the last development release<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/yum/devel/core-snap/__;!!DZ3fjg!4r59aVCvn4jsWNCCrHAh6xyrgu5mx6BI9J0SxQ-d0TGtijvuu86F-dHJdhhvulngQh7UVfY6X1ZJUe-x7E-_X1DEjgU$> is what 2.17 will be. So, anyone is welcome to use it already. You don't have to wait for an "official release". We might want to hold another BoF session at Supercomputing. But we are still finalizing the details. Nevertheless, I would like to mention again that xCAT itself has no long-term future. We do not recommend using xCAT for new clusters that may want to upgrade to newer operating systems such as RHEL 10. The project is only in maintenance mode. We will provide a small fix here and there for existing installations but there will be no major new development or regular releases. We are happy to merge pull requests though. For new deployments we recommend using confluent<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/xcat2/confluent__;!!DZ3fjg!4r59aVCvn4jsWNCCrHAh6xyrgu5mx6BI9J0SxQ-d0TGtijvuu86F-dHJdhhvulngQh7UVfY6X1ZJUe-x7E-_IdZDBVg$> instead. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Markus Hilger HPC Engineer MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH Tel: +49 3722 528-47 Nordstraße 19 markus.hil...@megware.com<mailto:markus.hil...@megware.com> 09247 Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf, Germany www.megware.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.megware.com/__;!!DZ3fjg!4r59aVCvn4jsWNCCrHAh6xyrgu5mx6BI9J0SxQ-d0TGtijvuu86F-dHJdhhvulngQh7UVfY6X1ZJUe-x7E-_gOWqpSY$> Geschäftsführer: André Singer, Dr. Axel Auweter Amtsgericht: Chemnitz HRB 584 ________________________________ Von: Glick, Bill <bgl...@illinois.edu<mailto:bgl...@illinois.edu>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2024 18:13 An: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>>; Markus Hilger <markus.hil...@megware.com<mailto:markus.hil...@megware.com>> Betreff: Re: xCAT Consortium Update Any news or updates regarding the xCAT Consortium? Did discussion move to some new place? Or are we to presume the xCAT Consortium is defunct? - Bill Glick From: Glick, Bill <bgl...@illinois.edu<mailto:bgl...@illinois.edu>> Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 10:33 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xCAT Consortium Update How is the xCAT Consortium effort going? I had the impression we’d hear approximately monthly updates about its progress, but I haven’t seen any updates since this message in December. - Bill Glick From: Markus Hilger <markus.hil...@megware.com<mailto:markus.hil...@megware.com>> Date: Monday, December 11, 2023 at 11:07 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT Consortium Update Dear xCAT community, it is one month ago, since we met at Supercomputing ’23 to announce that a consortium led by RedLine, OCF and MEGWARE is willing to take over the ownership of the current xCAT project to provide continuity for existing xCAT 2 based clusters. And we are still thrilled having seen so many of you during this event who have shown their interest and support, both in presence and online. On the technical side, we have started to dive into the IBM-internal integration setup for compiling and testing xCAT releases. Our goal is to replicate and extend this infrastructure at RedLine, OCF and MEGWARE to provide even wider test coverage on more hardware infrastructures for future releases. At the same time, we continue to investigate the various legal aspects of the transition. During our SC’23 meeting, we have also announced that in addition to our efforts surrounding xCAT 2, we would work with LENOVO towards making Confluent a suitable, community backed, xCAT 2 replacement for future cluster systems. For this reason, we invited LENOVO to become a full member of our consortium from the beginning. Understandably, this plan is a significant step for the Confluent team that requires thorough preparation and careful consideration and we will share further updates as this effort takes shape. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the team at IBM, namely Nathan A Besaw, for their continued support during the transition. 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