[Gluster-devel] Building base VM images for GlusterFS

[John Mark Walker]

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
> 
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