Tool to set up development environment / VMs?

Maros Zatko mzatko at redhat.com
Tue Aug 7 16:41:19 UTC 2012


On 08/07/2012 04:23 PM, 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.
>
Heh, thanks for promotion, that thing used to work, it still need a few 
fixes to be really useful.
If you think it's a good idea and have any suggestions, feel free and 
contact me, please.
> 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




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