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

[Richard Esplin]

A quick update from my side.

Given our work to roll out the new social community, we have struggled to advertise the hackathon externally. But I have a number of engineers excited about attending, and we are looking forward to collaborating together on projects.

Cheers,

Richard

On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 3:17:19 PM BST Axel Faust wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >
> >
>