Hi Martin,
I'm back at setting up beaker and running into issues that I can't debug.
How/where do I go to get guidance?
Thanks.
On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:43 AM Martin Styk <martin.styk(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:40 PM Ken Strandberg
> <ken(a)catlowcommunications.com> wrote:
> >
> > My organization is putting together a beaker cluster for testing on ever
> advancing hardware. We are concerned about launching the cluster on
> RHEL/CentOS 7 because they are no longer supported, which may result in
> challenges in testing new hardware. I am evaluating building the cluster on
> CentOS8, but, beaker-server fails with the following during installation:
> >
> > Error:
> > Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
> > - nothing provides python-netaddr needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-lxml needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-decorator needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-jinja2 needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-flask needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-gssapi needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-itsdangerous needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-ldap needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-passlib needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-pwquality needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-sqlalchemy >= 0.9 needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > - nothing provides python-requests >= 1.0 needed by
> beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
> > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest'
> to use not only best candidate packages)
> >
> > I suspect it's because beaker uses OS ver 7 with python2 and
> RHEL/CentOS8 installs python3. I installed python2 and tried adding the
> missing python packages, running update, flushing cache, etc, and it still
> fails with the same.
> >
> > I can easily build the server on CentOS7. It's flawless to get the
> daemon running. But, we are concerned about the maintenance OS and emerging
> hardware. Is there a way to get server to run on OS 8, and will it be
> ported to 8 and python3 in the near future?
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Thank you for asking.
> Yes. Beaker will not work on RHEL 8 at this moment due to codebase.
> The codebase is not ready for Python 3 (used in RHEL8). At this point,
> we added full support for Beaker-client + Beaker-common. So people on
> fedora can fully use Beaker CLI as they were used to. Plans for adding
> support for Python 3 in whole codebase are considered. However, I
> can't say it will be in the short term.
>
> I would suggest you go with RHEL 7 - This is how we are operating with
> Beaker in RH (Biggest silo of Beaker I'm aware of).
>
> If you any further questions don't hesitate ask or hit me directly.
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Styk
> Senior Software Engineer, Beaker Tech lead, PnT Infrastructure
> Management and Automation
> martin.styk(a)redhat.com
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> >
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