Re: [MERGE] virtual network appliance manager refactorring

[Karl Harris <ka...@sungardas.com>]

I have posted a reference pull request
<https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/33> with the current work in
progress using packer to build system virtual machines as well as
generating vagrant boxes for testing. As mentioned in the pull request
comment :This is "a work in progress" and posted for review and comment.

Karl


On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Karl Harris <ka...@sungardas.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Here is a update of the work in support of  Cloudstack-764:
>
> The overall idea of this effort is to implement VPC Virtual Redundant
> Routing  and automate the unit
> tests for system virtual machine for virtual routers both redundant and
> non-redundant, for Cloudstack-764.
>
> Current work areas.
>
> Modify system vm bash scripts to implement VPC Virtual redundant routing
> in a similar
> fashion to existing virtual redundant routing. Basically implementing the
> ability for VRR to handle
> VPC's dynamic network topology as mention in the Java Refactoring from SP.
>
> Refactored the VeeWee virtual machine build scripts to use Packer. Packer
> is used because of its ability
> to build a system virtual machine raw file without unsupported "c"
> utilities and its additional builders
> to generate images for all virtual environments as required.
>
> Initial test framework uses VirtualBox/Vagrant as test harness with the
> addition of test scripts for unit testing.
> The output of the Packer build in a Vagrant Box is also used for debugging
> script changes outside
> of unit test framework.
>
> Use the output of the Packer builders as part of an automated system
> virtual machine "build/ testing chain"  in support of additional
> script changes for virtual routers and/or other Cloudstack system virtual
> machine functions.
>
>
>
> Karl
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Wilder Rodrigues <
> WRodrigues@schubergphilis.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Daan! :)
>>
>> More info here:
>>
>> Just a quick update on the status of the VPC RVR refactor, which is the
>> part 1 of the whole VPC RVR implementation. I have added some documentation
>> to the Apache Wiki page. You can find it on the URL below:
>>
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Refactor+for+Redundant+Virtual+Router+Implementation
>>
>> Thanks for the diagrams, Antonio!
>>
>> I will update it later with some few notes that we are working on.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wilder
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 03 Oct 2014, at 19:36, "Daan Hoogland" <daan.hoogland@gmail.com
>> <ma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> yes, and it is good to stress that once again!
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM, David Nalley <david@gnsa.us<mailto:
>> david@gnsa.us>> wrote:
>>
>> As noted in your PR, please don't merge this immediately into master.
>> We're in feature freeze, and master is currently 4.5
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --David
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogland@gmail.com
>> <ma...@gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>> H,
>>
>> I just pushed a huge branch with work that my colleagues did [1]. It is
>> prerequisite to adding redundancy to vpc routers. please take it into
>> account when doing anything with virtual router functionality as it
>> addresses a lot of the way we work with configuring those. Merging will
>> have to wait of course but for any related work I'd advice to use it as
>> starting point to be joined in the merge later on.
>>
>> It will be followed first by refactorings in the virtual routing resource
>> and the actual on board router scripts and next by the code to add
>> redundancy to the vpc version of the router.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/vpc-refactor
>>
>> --
>> Daan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daan
>>
>
>
>
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> Karl O. Harris
> Cloud Software Engineer
> Sungard Availability Services
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Karl O. Harris
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Sungard Availability Services
Office: 215-446-1772
Cell: 215-264-1855
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