Puck is a virtualization configuration server used by Pixie to configure FreeBSD hypervisors and their jails.
The system expects the use of YUM+RPM as the package manager for end-user packages while the OS and jails packages are to be provided by FreeBSD ports.
We have pushed patches to freebsd ports for RPM and have upcoming ones for YUM.
It is not yet ready for use (still integration work to be done between puck and pixie).
Current plans are to support VirtualBox, QEMU and OpenStack (euca2-tools).
By supporting OpenStack, we can probably easily add Eucalyptus and EC2.
While the port system is great at creating the perfect server setup, handling package updates for the user software stack is a little bit more complex. Yum and RPM allows updating the stack more easily and most of all, it has great support for multiple channels (repos).
Port is great, YUM is great. We merged both tools on the same platform to provide a kick-ass user experience.
We plan to open source our base flavour and the tool to sync the installed ports packages with RPM.
cd pixie
python -m unittest discover
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Python 2.7
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py27-curl
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py27-iniparse
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py27-pyme
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py27-urlgrabber
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py27-yum-metadata-parser
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CherryPy 3.2
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Mako 0.5
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A machine to run puck
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A FreeBSD virtual machine image
There is a FreeBSD patch to be applied on images for VirtIO to work. Otherwise, nova-compute libvirt configuration must be updated to use normal hard drives (hd) instead of virtio.
If an image is uploaded with euca2ools, the glance entry must be updated to reflect the following:
container_type: bare
image_type: qcow2
Configure setup/setup.sh to match your environment (mostly just change the url of the package site).
The boostrap file should be included in the virtual machine base image and be run during the first boot.
The RPM packages required for Pixie to run are CherryPy and Mako. These should be present in the second package site (named init).
More to come.
A package site is essentially just a repository of freebsd pkg tarballs. Here's an example one:
autoconf-2.68.tbz help2man-1.40.4.tbz perl-5.12.4_3.tbz screen-4.0.3_13.tbz
autoconf-wrapper-20101119.tbz index pkg-config-0.25_1.tbz sqlite3-3.7.9.tbz
autossh-1.4b.tbz libassuan-2.0.2.tbz popt-1.16.tbz ssmtp-2.64.tbz
bash-4.1.11.tbz libgcrypt-1.5.0.tbz postgresql-client-8.4.9.tbz sudo-1.8.3_1.tbz
bison-2.4.3,1.tbz libgpg-error-1.10.tbz pth-2.0.7.tbz swig-1.3.40.tbz
ca_root_nss-3.12.11_1.tbz libiconv-1.13.1_1.tbz py27-PyGreSQL-4.0,1.tbz tcl-8.4.19_3,1.tbz
cowsay-3.03_1.tbz libksba-1.2.0.tbz py27-iniparse-0.4.tbz tcl-8.5.11.tbz
curl-7.21.3_2.tbz libtool-2.4_1.tbz py27-pyme-0.8.1_4.tbz tcl-modules-8.5.11.tbz
db46-4.6.21.4.tbz libxml2-2.7.8_1.tbz py27-sqlite3-2.7.2_1.tbz unzip-6.0_1.tbz
expect-5.43.0_3.tbz lua-5.1.4_6.tbz py27-urlgrabber-3.9.1.tbz vim-7.3.121.tbz
gettext-0.18.1.1.tbz m4-1.4.16,1.tbz py27-yaml-3.10.tbz wget-1.13.4_1.tbz
gmake-3.82.tbz nano-2.2.6.tbz py27-yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4.tbz zip-3.0.tbz
gnupg-2.0.18_1.tbz nspr-4.8.9.tbz python27-2.7.2_3.tbz
gpgme-1.3.1.tbz nss-3.12.11.tbz rpm-4.9.1.2_1.tbz
gsed-4.2.1_2.tbz p5-Locale-gettext-1.05_3.tbz rsync-3.0.9.tbz
The index file is used by the bootstrap script to download the appropriate packages.
rm index; for file in *; do echo $file >> index; done;
Copy the template located at /flavour. The new folder should be named exactly the same as the flavor.
Add all the required FreeBSD packages in [flavor name]/pkg/All.
Add your RPM packages in [flavor name]/pkg/rpm.
Edit [flavor name]/ezjail.flavour as required (Add users, custom config, etc.). Most of the changes should probably be in a RPM or FreeBSD package.
Tar up the folder: tar -cf [flavor name].tar [flavor name]
The tar structure should be like this: [flavor name]/ ezjail.flavour pkg/ All/ ... rpm/ ... registerports.py spectemplate
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