| Summary: | Provide easy way how to stash work | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Beaker | Reporter: | David Kovalsky <dkovalsk> |
| Component: | beah | Assignee: | beaker-dev-list |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | tools-bugs <tools-bugs> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 0.6 | CC: | amarecek, atodorov, azelinka, benl, bpeck, mastyk, mcsontos, mmalik, ohudlick, stl, tools-bugs, xtian |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | Cloud | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2020-02-11 12:14:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 593663 | ||
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Description
David Kovalsky
2011-04-04 16:55:09 UTC
I think this could be very useful. I would love to see this one. It would reduce box camping, at least in my case. This would (hopefully) solve one the biggest Beaker pains: slow provisioning: 1) stash clean installs of most used distros (e.g. rhel5.8, rhel6.3, ...) 2) allow anyone use those stashed distros for _quick_ provisioning (restore from image: +- 5minutes vs full anaconda install: +-20minutes) 3) use it transparently in workflows: use shashed image by default, fallback to full install only if stashed image not found or requested by user. I think it would make sense to implement this using disk snapshots of some sort in RHEV, once Beaker supports it. It's probably not practical for bare metal systems. Bulk reassignment of issues as Bill has moved to another team. Greetings! Any news? How it's going with this bug? I'd love this new funcionality. I think it will be very usefull for us - users. Hi Aleš, We are not currently looking at this specific solution. Our more immediete goals are to quantify resource usage, so then we can go about making our permissions model and scheduler work in a more efficient manner and hopefully reduce issues surrounding resource shortages. I did some bean counting back in 2011 regarding the time spent on provisioning vs time spent on the actual tasks. The results: installations take about 20% of the time (for tasks without reservesys). And we're already compensating for this by stacking lots of task together, the number would be much higher if we'd run separate tasks separately. So my semi-educated guess is you'll find out that implementing some sort of quick provisioning will greatly help "reduce issues surrounding resource shortages.". Please keep this on your radar, thanks. Beah is no longer supported by Beaker development team. Instead of that, we are working on Restraint test harness. You can find all the features of Restraint here. https://restraint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ If you think your RFE should be still implemented as part of Restraint feel free to create a new BZ ticket. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Restraint In case you have any question feel free to reach out to me Thank you, Martin Styk <martin.styk> |