Re: Announcing Softserve- serve yourself a VM

[Atin Mukherjee <amukherj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Deepshikha Khandelwal <dkhandel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

We have launched the alpha version of  SOFTSERVE[1], which allows Gluster Github organization members to provision virtual machines for a specified duration of time. These machines will be deleted automatically afterwards.

Now you don’t need to file a bug to get VM. It’s just a form away with a dashboard to monitor the machines.

Once the machine is up, you can access it via SSH and run your debugging (test regression runs).

We’ve enabled certain limits for this application:

1. Maximum allowance of 5 VM at a time across all the users. User have to wait until a slot is available for them after 5 machines allocation.

2. User will get the requesting machines maximum upto 4 hours.

IMHO ,max cap of 4 hours is not sufficient. Most of the times, the reason of loaning a machine is basically debug a race where we can't reproduce the failure locally what I have seen debugging such tests might take more than 4 hours. Imagine you had done some tweaking to the code and you're so close to understand the problem and then the machine expires, it's definitely not a happy feeling. What are the operational challenges if we have to make it for atleast 8 hours or max a day?

1. Access to only Gluster organization members.

These limits may be resolved in the near future. This service is ready to use and if you find any problems, feel free to file an issue on the github repository[2].

[1]https://softserve.gluster.org

[2]https://github.com/gluster/softserve  

Thanks,

Deepshikha

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