[Devtools] minishift in singapore

[Burr Sutter]

Good thoughts
I will go back to the hotel in a couple of hours and try again from there.

For the predownload of the oc binary, where do I place it on my machine so
that minishift is happy about it?

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:59 PM Praveen Kumar <prkumar at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I think there may be an issue with using minishift in SG.  SG has some
> > "special" networking issues as there is essentially a "great firewall of
> > singapore".
> >
> > How is the total download volume (in MBs) that we can expect from a
> > minishift?
> >
> > minishift v1.16.1+d9a86c9
> >
> > Here are my commands (from bit.ly/istio-tutorial)
> > minishift profile set istio-tutorial
> > minishift config set memory 8GB
> > minishift config set cpus 3
> > minishift config set vm-driver virtualbox ## or kvm, for Fedora
> > minishift config set image-caching true
> > minishift addon enable admin-user
> > minishift start
> >
> > ----------
> > Tried it 5 times today and it "freezes" at various places like:
> > Pulling image openshift/origin:v3.9.0
> > Pulled 1/4 layers, 26% complete
> > Pulled 1/4 layers, 42% complete
> > Pulled 1/4 layers, 59% complete
> > Pulled 2/4 layers, 74% complete
> > Pulled 3/4 layers, 89% complete
> >
> > ---
> > or
> >
> > Downloading OpenShift binary 'oc' version 'v3.9.0'
> >
> >  1.61 MiB / 40.58 MiB
> >
> [===>---------------------------------------------------------------------------]
> > 3.97% 17m36s
>
> Looks like GitHub and docker hub connectivity issue instead minishift
> per se, can you try to download the `oc` binary on your host and see
> if the speed any better?
>
> Another hack way of doing is following (now if any image export
> command fails then you again start and docker should resume it without
> any issue)
>
> ```
> $ export MINISHIFT_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=y
> $ minishift start --no-provision => this will only start the VM and do
> nothing.
>
> $ minishift image export openshift/origin:v3.9.0
> $ minishift image export openshift/origin-web-console:v3.9.0
> $ minishift image export openshift/origin-docker-registry:v3.9.0
> ..etc.
> ```
>
> Once images are cached you can delete that non-provisioned VM and
> start fresh with image-cache enabled. I am not sure if
> minishift-1.16.1 have `no-provision` flag but `1.18.0` have.
>
> --
> Praveen Kumar
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kumarpraveen
>
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