[ovirt-devel] What does your oVirt development environment look like?

[Yair Zaslavsky]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "ybronhei" <ybronhei at redhat.com>
> To: "Adam Litke" <alitke at redhat.com>, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 7:36:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] What does your oVirt development environment look	like?
> 
> 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

Haven't used "Jenkins for the people" for quite some time, it's awesome though.
Yaniv, does your Jenkins build all your local branches? 
I don't have much to share, my environment is even simpler.
I am sure it's a common knowledge but still a reminder (even if a new developer can benefit from it, it will be good) -
you can create a database schema per each branch you work on, and if needed to switch between branches, you don't have to destroy your current database.
Quite helpful, I must say , for someone who works 100% on engine related stuff.

Yair

> 
> sorry I can't help with your curiosity .. my env quite simple
> 
> Regards,
> Yaniv Bronhaim.
> 
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