[CentOS-devel] Request for virtual IP-addresses in the CI for fail-over testing

Thu May 19 10:16:15 UTC 2016
Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:06:33PM +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 18/05/16 10:32, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > there is an integration in place with Gluster, NFS-Ganesha and
> > Pacemaker. This combination makes it possible to have an active-active
> > high-available NFS-server backed by Gluster volumes.
> > 
> > We'd like to add automated testing for functional fail-over in the CI.
> > This requires the use of virtual-IPs that get assigned to the different
> > NFS-Ganesha servers, which will migrate to other servers upon failure.
> > 
> > On https://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/PubHardware is a mentioning of
> > "reserved IP addresses" where the Gluster project in the CI would like
> > to get listed too. What is the process to request a few IPs, and what
> > are the restrictions we need to be aware of (and how to put them in the
> > Jenkins job)?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> 
> Hi Niels,
> 
> Such mail around the CI environment should be probably be sent/discussed
> on the ci-users list (see
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ci-users) : that's where some
> requests are tracked/discussed and other projects are giving their
> opinions/ideas/suggestions too.
> For the "reserved ip addresses" question, we can even have a dedicated
> block for gluster, outside of the CI subnet itself. But let's discuss
> this on the appropriate list :-)

Uh, yes of course. I'll resend it to the right list.

Thanks,
Niels
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