Proposing a new infra design

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:17:42AM -0400, Eyal Edri wrote:
> Kiril Nesenko wrote:
> > Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 02:40:02AM -0400, Kiril Nesenko wrote:
> > > > * Storage for resources.ovirt.org - make no sense that VM stores RPMs
> > > >   on it. Much better to use a VM with a small HD and use external
> > > >   storage for storing RPMs.
> > >
> > > I don't quite understand this. I get that you'd want different
> > > partitions, but why external storage? Whether the host manages this or
> > > the guest, does it really make a difference?
> > >
> > > When we get our environment up, I'd like to look into setting up mirrors
> > > where people/orgs can sponsor some mirror so resources.ovirt.org becomes
> > > less important anyway. yum has a nice mirrorlist feature and I'm sure we
> > > can work something out.
> >
> > I am not sure on which servers resources.ovirt.org is running right now, but
> > I would
> > like to run our infra on our servers. For this purpose its better to create a
> > VMs with a small HD and use ext. storage
> > to save RPMs on it.
>
> Just something we heard of on last jenkins conference - https://bintray.com/bintray/rpm-center
> might worth checking as a replacement for ovirt rpms repository.
>
> it has REST API [1], so we might be able to publish rpms from jenkins directly to it.
>
> [1] https://bintray.com/docs/rest/api.html

It certainly looks interesting. I was thinking that you probably want
GPG signed packages, but currently we don't have that either so it
doesn't have to be a blocker.