Scott Henson wrote:
Jasper Capel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Me and Joep Piscaer are planning on doing some Cobbler + ESX/vCenter
> integration. We'd like to be able to deploy virtuals like we can on
> xen/kvm using Koan.
> However, we're not going to be able to run a tool like Koan on a vCenter
> server, so we'd have to talk to VMware through some sort of API from
> another host.
>
> Keeping this in mind, how much sense does it make to still implement
> this in Koan? Wouldn't Cobbler be a better place for this piece of code
> to live?
>
> I'd like some input on this. :)
>
>
I'm currently working on a cobbler system deploy method that will have
deployment modules. If VMware gives you an api to talk to, you could
simply write a deployment module to talk to it. I would think that is
the best way to go.
++
There are Perl APIs, at least, for VMware.
The idea of "cobbler system deploy --name=foo --onhost=bar"and "cobbler
systemdeploy --name=foo --in-virtual-group=baz" is definitely goodness.
It may have only one choosable deployment module per cobbler install
initially, though I could see that being configurable in settings based
on the name
of the virtual group.
--Michael