[CentOS-devel] How should a SIG setup dependencies on Ansible

Brian Stinson

brian at bstinson.com
Fri Jan 27 08:23:20 UTC 2017


I know the paas SIG is building ansible for their purposes, and the
configmanagement SIG was meant to pick up and maintain a version of
ansible. 

I'm forgetting what we're blocked on for this? 

On Jan 26 18:17, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the Storage SIG we have several tools that depend on Ansible. What
> > would be the best approach to make the Ansible packages available for
> > users that want to install these tools?
> >
> > For a concrete example, the gdeploy tool for Gluster can automate
> > installation and configuration of Gluster and integrated projects (like
> > Samba and NFS-Ganesha) through a simple configuration file. Internally
> > gdeploy generates Ansible playbooks and can run them.
> >
> > Lets assume we put gdeploy in a YUM repository from the Storage SIG.
> > Because gdeploy depends on Ansible, we either need to:
> >
> > a. tag/sign/push some Ansible package from the CBS in the Storage SIG
> > b. add a dependency on centos-release-<ansible?> in the
> >    centos-release-gluster package (which c-r-ansible?)
> > c. something else (please specify)
> >
> >
> > My preference would be to go with (b). I do not really want to care
> > about the Ansible packages and their updates. It would be easier for me
> > to have the SIG providing Ansible take care of that.
> >
> 
> That will be interesting for Virt SIG as well, since oVIrt 4.1 uses ansible
> as well for configuring metrics related stuff.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> >
> 
> 
> 
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