[ovirt-users] Why was HE Install made OVA only?

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Alan Griffiths <apgriffiths79 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was building my own image, using Foreman, Puppet and PXE. There's a
> specific partitioning schema I'm required to use in my environment and
> building my own image from Kickstart is by far the easiest way to
> achieve this.
>

Also our default appliance is built from a kickstart file.
You can simply customize it as you need and rebuild your custom appliance
to be used with hosted-engine-setup.

Look here to see how the ovirt engine appliance is built:
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-appliance/tree/master/engine-appliance


> I can appreciate that in most scenarios the OVA install is the
> best/easiest option, but it would have been nice to keep PXE and ISO
> options.


The point is that now hosted-engine-setup is strongly using cloud-init to
automatically configure the appliance and execute engine-setup there.
It's simply using the no-cloud datasource which is just a cloud-init
specific iso file attached on the fly as a CDROM; doing it over a pxe boot
will instead require a zero conf network to supply cloud init data and it's
by far more complex.


> On 20 November 2017 at 17:24, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Alan Griffiths <apgriffiths79 at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What was the reasoning behind making Hosted Engine install OVA only?
> >> The PXEBoot feature always worked really well for me, and now I have a
> >> number of extra steps to achieve the same end result.
> >>
> >
> > Do you mean that you were customizing the image shipped via PXE?
> > Deploying from the OVA is pretty convenient, if you want just to forget
> > about it, you have to install also ovirt-engine-appliance rpm when you
> > install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup one.
> > I don't see other additional steps.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Alan
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