Bug 339020

Description Gunnar Wagenknecht 2011-03-05 15:54:13 EST

We need a way to provision software across nodes in the cloud. Ideally individual nodes would provision software themselves depending on tasks/roles they need to fulfill. This bug acts as a placeholder and collects thoughts/ideas that lead to an initial implementation for 1.0.

For an initial implementation the following should be sufficient.

- all nodes should use the same set of repos
- the set of repos might vary depending on the data center a node is located in (we would use node tags + filters for this)

- we need a list of IUs that should be installed on each node
- such a IU would be a feature (p2 term seems to be root IU), the Gyrex server itself would be a product IU
- again the list could use node tags + filter to limit installability of IUs to specific nodes

- on each node a job would run and ensure that all IUs are installed that should be installed
- such a job might wait for specific signals in order to implement a controlled roll-out which can be stopped in case of problems

To not confuse with p2 we should not stress terms such as "profile".