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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