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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:13:36 +0100
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Subject: Re: cartridge reusability
From: chris snow <chsnow123@gmail.com>
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Perfect.  Thanks Dinesh!

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Dinesh Bandara <dineshb@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:47 PM, chris snow <chsnow123@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Udara,
>>
>> At the moment, everyone who wants to run stratos has to also create
>> cartridges that point to their specific puppet master instance.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be better if a cartridge could be created just once and
>> that cartridge image shared for other Stratos users?
>>
>>
>> E.g. just like you can download a generic Ubuntu EC cloud image [1]
>> which is ready to use on OpenStack, it may be convenient for users if
>> cartridge images could too be shared?
>
>
> Yes. you can share the cartridge image for other stratos user. Let me
> explain this in detail.
> when creating cartridge by running config script, simply you have to provide
> puppetmaster ip, hostname and service type. Those data are used only for
> cartridge configuration (initialization) and those data are erased once
> configuration process completed. Then you can create a image form that
> configured instance and it is just like a generic cloud image[1] with
> specific service type (Genaric, PHP, MySQL, etc). It is not bound to any
> puppet master. This image can be shared among other stratos users.
>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> ---
>> [1]
>> http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Udara Liyanage <udara@wso2.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Chris,
>> >
>> > If you can explain more about what you want to achieve it is better. As
>> > Lakmal mentioned we have a single cartridge which is is reused for every
>> > service type PHP, MySQL etc. Do you want to use the same cartridge for
>> > multiple Stratos environment?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Touched, not typed. Erroneous words are a feature, not a typo.
>> >
>> > On Apr 20, 2014 7:58 PM, "Lakmal Warusawithana" <lakmal@wso2.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 1:04 PM, chris snow <chsnow123@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> When we create a cartridge, we provide it with the puppet master IP
>> >>> address.
>> >>>
>> >>> Does the cartridge periodically sync with the puppet master to
>> >>> retrieve updated definitions?  Or, does it just sync up at cartidge
>> >>> creation time?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Currently we are use (generic case) puppet master at cartridge creation
>> >> time well as cartridge start time to retrieve updates. ( we can use
>> >> periodic
>> >> updates, but it depend on the use case)
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> After a cartridge has been created, is it possible to point the
>> >>> cartridge to a different puppet master?  If not, cartridges are tied
>> >>> to the puppet master they were originally configured with and aren't
>> >>> reusable.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> I did not get what you mean by re-useable? And why we need to point any
>> >> other puppet master
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Should we think about providing the puppet master hostname and ip (and
>> >>> maybe even the service type) as user data information, thus making our
>> >>> cartridges reusable?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Actually we are binding puppet master hostname with provided IP address
>> >> (adding host entry) to communicate with puppet master.
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Many thanks,
>> >>>
>> >>> Chris
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Lakmal Warusawithana
>> >> Director - Cloud Architecture; WSO2 Inc.
>> >> Mobile : +94714289692
>> >> Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
>
> --
> Dinesh Bandara
> Software Engineer
> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
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