On 08/15/2014 09:32 AM, Adam Litke wrote:
Ever since starting to work on oVirt around 3 years ago I've been striving for the perfect development and test environment. I was inspired by Yaniv's recent deep dive on Foreman integration and thought I'd ask people to share their setups and any tips and tricks so we can all become better, more efficient developers.
My setup consists of my main work laptop and two mini-Dell servers. I run the engine on my laptop and I serve NFS and iSCSI (using targetcli) from this system as well. I use the ethernet port on the laptop to connect it to a subnet with the two Dell systems.
Some goals for my setup are: - Easy provisioning of the virt-hosts so I can quickly test on Fedora and CentOS without spending lots of time reinstalling - Ability to test block and nfs storage - Automation of test scenarios involving engine and hosts
To help me reach these goals I've deployed cobbler on my laptop and it does a pretty good job at managing PXE boot configurations for my hosts (and VMs) so they can be automatically intalled as needed. After viewing Yaniv's presentation, it seems that Forman/Puppet are the way of the future but it does seem a bit more involved to set up. I am definitely curious if others are using Foreman in their personal dev/test environment and can offer some insight on how that is working out.
Thanks, and I look forward to reading about more of your setups! If we get enough of these, maybe this could make a good section of the wiki.
Heppy to hear :) for those who missed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozX891kYAY each one has its own needs and goals I guess, but if you say it might help, I'll never say no for sharing :P I have 3 dells under my desk, I compile the engine a lot and its heavy for my laptop. So I clone my local working directory and build it on the strongest mini-dell using local jenkins server (http://www.ovirt.org/Local_Jenkins_For_The_People). The other 2 I use as hypervisor when needed. provision them is done by me manually :/.. cobbler pxe boot could help with already defined image.. Other then that, I have nfs mount for storage and few vms for compilation and small tests sorry I can't help with your curiosity .. my env quite simple Regards, Yaniv Bronhaim.