[Gluster-users] A "Wizard" for Initial Gluster Configuration

[Joe Julian]

If you used the gui to build json hiera data, that would be simple and 
effective.

James just needs to document defining peers and volumes in hiera.

On 10/10/2013 2:18 PM, James wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Paul Cuzner <pcuzner at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> You make some good points ;o)
> Thank you!
>
>> At this stage, my plan is to add "create volume" functionality to complete the initial setup tasks and then look at next steps.
> Sounds good.
>
>> Looking at adopting puppet sounds like an interesting direction.
> One use case I have in mind is giving users the tools (eg: sysadmins,
> new/potential RedHat customers, etc...) to quickly and easily deploy a
> gluster environment for initial testing. I know JMW had requested this
> at some point.
>
> I don't have plans for a GUI, but I think it would be cool if your GUI
> wrapped my puppet code. That would save you maintaining the gluster
> logic separately, and you'd gain my configuration management features.
>
> If you want help hacking on this, let me know. I have some not yet
> published patches that should help.
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul C
>>
> Cheers,
> James
>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "James" <purpleidea at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Paul Cuzner" <pcuzner at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
>>> Sent: Friday, 11 October, 2013 4:04:32 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] A "Wizard" for Initial Gluster Configuration
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Paul Cuzner <pcuzner at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>> Hey there,
>>>
>>>> I'm writing a tool to simplify the initial configuration of a cluster, and
>>>> it's now in a state that I find useful.
>>> Cool...
>>>
>>>> Obviously the code is on the forge and can be found at
>>>> https://forge.gluster.org/gluster-deploy
>>>>
>>>> If your interested in what it does, but don't have the time to look at the
>>>> code I've uploaded a video to youtube
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxyPLnlCdhA
>>> I had a quick watch of this...
>>>> Feedback / ideas / code contributions - all welcome ;o)
>>> I'm biased because I'm the puppet-gluster [1] author, and I think
>>> puppet is the right tool for this type of thing. Having said that, the
>>> advantages of my puppet tool include:
>>>
>>> 1) recovering from error conditions and continuing.
>>> 2) ability to change the configuration after initial setup.
>>> 3) ability to define the entire configuration up front.
>>> 4) no need to exchange ssh keys.
>>> 5) puppet-gluster installs packages and starts glusterd too. Also
>>> manages firewall...
>>> 6) Future puppet-gluster features which I haven't released yet.
>>>
>>> However your tool is quite pretty and offers a UI which puppet doesn't
>>> provide. If you could be persuaded, one idea comes to mind: modify
>>> your tool to run a light puppet server. Each client could have ssh
>>> execute a puppet client.
>>>
>>> Ultimately you would get the same effect with a temporary puppet
>>> server. A permanent one would be preferable, but it would replace the
>>> need to write the logic in python. You'd benefit from the extra
>>> features that you can configure with puppet-gluster.
>>>
>>> Either way, happy hacking!
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Paul C
>>> Cheers,
>>> James
>>> [1] https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster
>>>
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