James, This is awesome stuff! I think we can use this to create live images to hand out on USB keys. -JM ----- Original Message ----- > Hey Niles and Gluster, > > I a little while back we were both looking at building base images for > testing GlusterFS [1]. My objective was to use Vagrant, which I've done > and published [2]. As it turned out, I wasn't able to find any suitable > base images to use, so I've had to build and customize my own [3]. As I > understood it, this might have been one of the prerequisites for your > work too. > > In any case, I've now also published my base box builder tools, which > you and/or the Gluster community might find helpful. I've written a > short article about the process here: > > https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/building-base-images-for-vagrant-with-a-makefile/ > > and if you want to dive right to the source it is available here: > > https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster/tree/master/builder > > and also mirrored here for johnmark: > > https://forge.gluster.org/puppet-gluster/puppet-gluster/trees/master/builder > > (hi johnmark) > > I ended up using a Makefile [4] to manage the process, which I think is > pretty elegant and lean. > > The only known issue at the moment, is that I had to disable SELinux in > the guest images. If anyone is able to look at the reasoning [5], and > perhaps suggest a fix or workaround, it would be appreciated! > > I hope you all find this useful. > > Happy hacking, > > James > > > [1] http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2013-December/038312.html > [2] > https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/automatically-deploying-glusterfs-with-puppet-gluster-vagrant/ > [3] > https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/building-base-images-for-vagrant-with-a-makefile/ > [4] > https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster/blob/master/builder/Makefile > [5] > https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster/blob/master/builder/Makefile#L57 > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
