Ken,
I believe that the Beaker server software requires RHEL/CentOS 7 to
run. I don't think it yet runs on RHEL/CentOS 8. Hopefully someone
will correct me if I am wrong.
The clients can install many different operating system versions on them.
John
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 6:58 PM Ken Strandberg
<ken(a)catlowcommunications.com> wrote:
>
> 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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