[Gluster-devel] Announcing Softserve- serve yourself a VM

[Atin Mukherjee]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Deepshikha Khandelwal <dkhandel at redhat.com>
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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