[katello-devel] Improving Aeolus + Katello integration

[Hugh O. Brock]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 01:04:36PM -0400, Chris Alfonso wrote:
> On 16/07/12 18:57 +0200, Ivan Nečas wrote:
> >
> >With funzo, we're trying to figure out how the Aeolus + Katello could
> >better integrate together.
> >
> >The templates in Katello are going to be replaced with component outlines. In
> >discussion about Foreman integration, it was not mentioned, that the
> >Compontent Outline will contain the list of packages (System Template
> >like we know it today has it). This is not required by Foreman (Foreman
> >solves it with Puppet), but Aeolus is able to take the list of
> >packages and install it into the built image, if I understand it
> >correctly. Was it meant to be this way, or we just skipped it when
> >talking about Foreman. It seems quite valuable Aeolus feature to me.
> >
> >Another thing to solve is how to call back to Katello after the
> >instance was deployed by Aeolus (if we're not satisfied with the
> >current status of setting the script manually in deployable, which I
> >guess we're not). It seems for now that Audrey is the only way how to
> >run some scripts after the image was deployed. Will there we some other
> >way for running scripts after deployment in Cloud Engine. If not, it
> >seems that we will need to run Audrey and Puppet side by side. Maybe
> >it's ok, just asking, if its acceptable  to have two config servers run
> >against the same machine?
> >
> An alternative the greg blomquist mentioned was to build the image with cloud-init installed and pass in parameters to complete a registration.  Doing so would git us the ability to not wire the VM up to a config server.
> >Ohad:
> >
> >How does Foreman solve the EC2 deployment against Foreman?
> >
> >-- 
> >Ivan
> >

I love the idea of not *having to have* a config server unless you
really need it, for I think obvious reasons...

--Hugh


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== Hugh Brock, hbrock at redhat.com                                   ==
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