[OOTB-hive] [INFRA] Virtual Hackathon - Capability of hosting integration/demo environments?

[Axel Faust]

Hello,

I think given the time until the hackathon next week this will not be
achievable anymore. The effective switch to my new work environment has
been quite a bit more busy in the last couple of weeks than anticipated, so
I did not poke Heiko regarding the VM or manage to prepare some scripting /
tooling using one of my projects as a basis.
But we may still want to consider this for a future hackathon and plan to
work on this sooner rather than later and/or get a team involved rather
than a single interested person...

Regards
Axel

On 23 August 2016 at 14:59, Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello Heiko,
>
> no, I haven't started locally yet so we could do this directly as a new VM
> in the target environment. Ubuntu LTS is fine - it's what I primarily use
> most of the time anyway.
>
> Regards
> Axel
>
> On 22 August 2016 at 18:51, Heiko Robert <heiko.orderofthebee.info@
> ecm4u.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Axel,
>>
>> > Ok - so VMWare has no relevant license restrictions and the Windows part
>> > is only relevant to "us" right, i.e. the people administering the
>> > infrastructure?
>> yes
>>
>> > From your experience, how well would it work if I were to prepare a VM
>> > with my local VMWare Player (including working on deployment / restart
>> > scripts and Jenkins / Artifactory integration with help maybe from
>> > Martin), export it to OVF and then import it into our infrastructure to
>> > fine tune it with regards to quick setup / DNS / proxy integration?
>>
>> You could just use VMWare Converter which is able to copy the whole VM
>> from/to your local format to/from the esxi. This doesn't require any
>> deep knowlege and is very fast - no need to convert to ovf. I just use
>> the ovftool since it has similar functionality on command line which is
>> easier to automate and is supported on linux/osx.
>>
>> On the other hand: Why not install everything directly on the right
>> target? Do you already have the VM in place? If not it may be easier to
>> create a new VM and work in the first steps on the virtual console
>> (virtual display) until ssh is configured to the VM. The easiest would
>> be you get vpn access to the VMs internal network. Or we agree on Ubuntu
>> LTS and I will setup a new VM with SSH access from the vpn.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Heiko
>>
>
>
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