Tool to set up development environment / VMs?

Mo Morsi mmorsi at redhat.com
Tue Aug 7 15:21:29 UTC 2012


On 08/07/2012 10:23 AM, Jiří Stránský wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> how do you prepare your development VMs? I've been talking with Mike
> yesterday about a possibility of making a tool similar to
> aeolus-configure, but for developers. Something to set up development
> environment easily. Would anything like this be wanted?
>
> I was thinking something a bit more rake-style with the whole setup
> thing decomposed into tasks. You could run a default scenario task
> with the whole stack getting set up or just pick something like `rake
> firewall:open_for_conductor` or `rake imagefactory:oauth` etc.
>
> Then today I saw Maros's kickstart-based solution [1] and I thought
> something similar would be even nicer when doing dev env setup on a
> VM, because it also takes care of OS installation.
>
> Mike and Jay also suggested such a tool could be useful for QE, so I
> would be pleased to see Dave's and Ronelle's opinions as well.
>
> So I'm looking for ideas/feedback/anything related to this. First,
> whether such thing would be wanted at all, and if so, any suggestions
> and ideas how should the tool work.
>
> I imagine the tool could be useful to contributors outside of Red Hat,
> who don't have Aeolus experts sitting in the same office to ask them
> about stuff ;)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jirka
>
> [1]: https://github.com/hacxman/spawnvm


We used to use appliance-creator [1] to create software-appliances for a
bunch of projects but this entailed additional resources during release
cycles and thus often would get bumped down in priority / dropped.

That being said, I'm all for this. Think pre-built appliances containing
the latest versions of the application suite and/or the rake tasks would
be useful.

  -Mo

[1] http://thincrust.net/



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