Installing Cobbler on Ubuntu

July 25th, 2010 | Posted by ProfFalken in DevOps | Linux | Open-Source - (2 Comments)

I’ve started to make some changes to the Cobbler tree to enable it to run on other linux distros than the RedHat family.

First up, Ubuntu Lucid!

Install the required packages:

aptitude install python-yaml python-cheetah python-netaddr python-urlgrabber

Get the source code from my git tree:

git clone git://github.com/proffalken/cobbler.git

change to the new directory and run the setup as root:

cd cobbler
python setup.py install

and there we are, Cobbler should now be running on your server!

There are some discrepancies and it’s not working 100% yet but it will install and run.

I’ll post some more information on getting the web interface up and running in the coming hours/days/weeks as I find the time! :)

cucumber-vhost goes for release 0.1!

July 23rd, 2010 | Posted by ProfFalken in Automated Build/Deployment | DevOps | Linux | Open-Source - (0 Comments)

Table of contents for Cucumber Vhost

  1. Announcing “Cucumber-VHost” – Cucumber, Cobbler and Virtual Hosting all in one package
  2. cucumber-vhost goes for release 0.1!

I’ve noticed that some people have shown an interest in my cucumber-vhost project.

I’ve just made a few commits that now mean you have steps to tear down virtual servers as well as create them and, as a result, I’m calling this version 0.1 and releasing it for general usage.

There are still a few caveats – I’ve not tested it with any backend systems for libvirt other than kvm/qemu and I’ve not written the steps to confirm a server is up/responding to a give port – but it works and I have it successfully building and destroying VMs under Hudson using the rake plugin.

Please file all bugs on the github bug tracker so I can try and fix them.

(Special thanks go to clalance in #virt on irc.oftc.net for help with sorting out the storage stuff!)

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Just because it’s sending emails doesn’t mean it’s being monitored…

July 7th, 2010 | Posted by ProfFalken in DevOps - (1 Comments)

Having received 500 emails from various alerting systems overnight for the n’th day (where ‘n’ is any value that is larger than 400) in a row, I’ve decided to take a stand against so-called “monitoring systems” that just pump SPAM into my inbox each morning that is dismissed with a simple “right-click -> Mark all as read”.
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