Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:54:53 -0700 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: John Matty <jcm104@pitt.edu> Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2014 question Message-ID: <CAG=rPVeD835zD=1aiL0i%2BTr2hqiM0kRQWLi%2Bx3dZd7P0Cgk6hQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201403201124.07472.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <532A0DE6.2020801@pitt.edu> <201403201124.07472.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:24 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > This isn't a bad place to ask this question. I think a person you might > want to talk to is Craig Rodrigues (cc'd) who has recently setup Jenkins > with the goal of doing automated testing using virtual machines. I'm not > sure exactly what design he is considering, but he is the person to ask. Last year I signed up to be a GSoC mentor, but this year I unfortunately do not have time, so haven't done so. Unfortunately, since I did not sign up as a mentor, I can't view your proposal on the google-melange web site. If you look at the following link, you can see the March 13 presentation which describes some work I did setting up Jenkins and BHyve for continuous integration and testing on FreeBSD: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins#Presentations_and_Working_Groups If you look at this link, item 22: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins#Jenkins_for_FreeBSD_status you will see that we are trying to work at integrating Jenkins with the Kyua framework, so that Jenkins can run Kyua, and report the results in the Jenkins web UI. Jenkins is used by hundreds of companies, not just in the FreeBSD world. Kyua is gaining popularity in the FreeBSD community, and is already used by major companies (EMC/Isilon and Spectralogic are the ones that I know of). There are already many systems out there for doing automation, starting/stopping VM's, and running tests. I'm focusing on integrating as many existing technologies and getting them to run under FreeBSD to put together a more modern continuous integration and testing pipeline for the FreeBSD project. I cannot comment on the specifics your proposal without reading it. However, I don't see a lot of value in coming up with a new Domain Specific Language for starting/stopping VM's and sending commands to VM's. There are already many people doing this already with other frameworks and automation API's. For example, libvirt ( http://libvirt.org ) is one popular API specifically for controlling VM's. In terms of frameworks that can send remote commands to VM's, there are already plenty of automation systems to choose from: Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, CFEngine are some examples. Creating a new Domain Specific Language for VM control sounds like a more academic/research exercise, so if you can get someone to mentor you for such a project, maybe you can target the results of your work for publication, if that is of interest to you. -- Craig
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