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Re: feature request: Empty role

 

Matt, what you and Gleb describe is logically not a separate role but
rather a basic role which is inherited by all the others. I also see such
basic role as a prerequisite to pluggable architecture development, for
example.

-Oleg


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Matthew Mosesohn
<mmosesohn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Oleg, we should be able to automate and include what Gleb suggests. I
> think it could solve a particular deployment case where we want to set
> up a separate node to do some monitoring or profiling task.
> The way we configure cobbler today doesn't include a default vanilla
> profile. You must configure the node via fuel first before it can be
> provisioned.
>
> In addition, I believe we could benefit from a minimal profile that
> installs common libs that will be useful, like all OpenStack client
> libs and vim. Feel free to elaborate here.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Oleg Gelbukh <ogelbukh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Gleb,
> >
> > Doesn't separation of provisioning and deployment solve this problem?
> >
> > -Oleg
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Gleb Galkin <ggalkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello people,
> >>
> >> I think we need an "Empty Role" in FUEL.
> >> In case that you need to provision OS and install mcollective without
> >> syncing the manifests and running puppet agent.
> >>
> >> For example I have a project with Swift standalone. And I need to
> >> provision OS to the bunch of nodes for further manual installation.
> >> It looks convenient to have an empty role in this situation.
> >> Please consider it.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Gleb Galkin
> >> OpenStack Deployment Engineer
> >>
> >> Mirantis Inc.
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> >>
> >>
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