[Cross-posted to ceph-devel and the crowbar mailing list] Hi. I've been working on a Ceph (the unified storage system) barclamp for Crowbar (the bare-metal deployment system). I just pushed the work to Github, the relevant repositories are: https://github.com/NewDreamNetwork/barclamp-ceph https://github.com/NewDreamNetwork/ceph-cookbooks ceph-cookbooks is the Ceph cookbooks for standalone Chef installations; barclamp-ceph uses ceph-cookbooks as a submodule. To get the submodule activated, clone the repository like this: git clone --recursive https://github.com/NewDreamNetwork/barclamp-ceph.git The work was tested with the Crowbar 1.1beta3 ISO, as available from http://crowbar.zehicle.com/crowbar111014.iso . On top of that, the following commands need to be run (in addition to installing the barclamp itself): --8<-- v=0.37-1maverick for p in ceph ceph-fuse ceph-common librados2 librbd1 libcephfs1 ceph-dbg; do wget -nc --progress=dot:mega --directory-prefix=pkgs "http://ceph.newdream.net/debian/pool/main/c/ceph/${p}_${v}_amd64.deb"; done # TODO missing because dvd does not include "universe"? wget -nc --progress=dot:mega --directory-prefix=pkgs \ http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libc/libcrypto++/libcrypto++8_5.6.0-5_amd64.deb \ http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/google-perftools/libgoogle-perftools0_1.5-1_amd64.deb \ http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/google-perftools/libtcmalloc-minimal0_1.5-1_amd64.deb \ http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libu/libunwind/libunwind7_0.99-0.2ubuntu1_amd64.deb dpkg-scanpackages pkgs /dev/null 2>/dev/null | gzip -9 >Packages.gz --8<-- I would welcome feedback from the Crowbar community on how this can be made simpler; it seems the crowbar.yml "debs" and "gems" sections are for the ISO building process, and are not looked at when installing barclamps. Also any feedback on the barclamp code itself is most welcome. The cookbooks themselves are work in progress, and should be taken as such. There are significant limitations in their current functionality, such as only supporting a single monitor, and not leveraging multiple disks for storage. Watch the repository on Github to be notified of future improvements. In testing the barclamp, I ran into the following recurring Crowbar issues. Any light on them would be welcome: 1. Crowbar's "sudo ./install" call must not use an existing domain, as it will hijack DNS for that domain completely. 2. Sometimes in the debian-installer, a progress bar would freeze until keyboard input was seen. For example, last night I had the "Installing the base system" portion stay at something like 39% the whole night; in the morning, I hit arrow-down and the percentage started increasing again. 3. Sometimes some of the recipes seem to not get called, or fail silently; for example, I just fought with a vm that was missing the /etc/apt/apt.conf file, and thus refused to install packages from unsigned sources, failing the chef-client run at ipmitool install time. I managed to see the same problem on repeat runs. Background material, in case it is needed because of the cross-posted nature of this message : Crowbar itself is at https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar For more on Ceph, see http://ceph.newdream.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
