Open sax opened 9 years ago
This might need to run a local http server in the host operating system in order to serve the image metadata as well as to allow the global zone to import the image.
This depends on managing zfs snapshots, an ability which I just added to the plugin.
Oh wow, this is cool.
Yeah. Now that we're using test kitchen, the fact that we have to install build-essential and chef every time adds minutes to each kitchen test. I want to be able to build local images.
What would you say to having image overrides? Like bundler local gem overrides, where if a particular image is used, the plugin swaps out a local one.
This would allow you to check in a Vagrantfile or .kitchen.yml with a public image, but then run vagrant with a modified image from the host system.
That seems reasonable.
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On 09 Dec 2014, at 16:40, Eric Saxby notifications@github.com wrote:
What would you say to having image overrides? Like bundler local gem overrides, where if a particular image is used, the plugin swaps out a local one.
This would allow you to check in a Vagrantfile or .kitchen.yml with a public image, but then run vagrant with a modified image from the host system.
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Drop me a direct line when you have achieved this? I can think of some reasons we'd want to use custom images at $job, and we will have a private SDC install soon, too.
Will do. This is going to be a bit of work, but I'll be incrementally adding bits and pieces of it on master over the next few weeks.
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Drop me a direct line when you have achieved this? I can think of some reasons we'd want to use custom images at $job, and we will have a private SDC install soon, too.
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Another thing this will be nice for is to download a zone image onto the host once, then install it into a VM from a local image server. It'll make it faster/easier to work with multiple images without having to create new base boxes.
Next to do: after downloading the compressed image, we need to created a manifest file.
For reference: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Managing+Images
A big +1 to this. Local Vagrant-powered Test Kitchen is about 2x slower against SmartOS LX than against Ubuntu native just because of bit sucking. I would love to work on this, but my time is pretty limited right now. If want to try a remote pair on a Friday night I might be able to swing it.
I'm in the same boat. I really want this feature, but am only going to have little bits of time here or there to get it working.
I'm hoping to get to a place at $job where it's again reasonable for me to take hack-days. If so, maybe I can fast-track this a little. Test Kitchen/ServerSpec is life to me these days :)
I just finished up and pushed the last bit of code for this to work. @bixu want to try it out and see if you run into any problems? I released 0.2.0 to rubygems.
One update I need to do is to change local datasets from bzip2 to gzip. They will be around 15% larger, but a lot faster to unzip when starting up new zones.
I have this at the top of our NFR/Ops backlog - will get back to you as soon as we've tested
Is this supposed to be fully-automted by version 2 of the plugin or do I need to set up the local image server myself? A quick look this morning and it doesn't seem to be faster than the previous version of the plugin, although I'm doing a kitchen test
with a SmartOS configuration I had used yesterday.
You don't need to set up an image server... it uses rsync to get the local image into the global zone... that's not as fast as I was expecting, but for me it's still a bit faster than installing all of build-essentials from scratch every time I run test-kitchen.
After doing some configuration of a zone, the user should be able to export that zone as a base image, into the local file system.
When provisioning a new zone, the user should then be able to use the zones from the local file system.