On 17/01/2012 13:42, Stephen Burke wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Collier said:
>> For 'Middleware Configuration, Deployment and Distribution' things are
>> less clear. The current situation is rather involved, a number of
>> different configuration tools are used and new ones may appear, but
>> fundamentally the configuration is too complex. The priority should be
>> to improve the packaging and simplify the configuration required for
>> the middleware - oh and of course provide documentation other than the
>> yaim scripts.
> Is there a view on the desired future of yaim in general - must continue to be supported? OK to migrate to something else? And if so what? Yaim is no longer supported by EMI as a general tool, just as a glite legacy, and EMI itself only has another year to run, so yaim may well tail off unless there's a big push to keep it.
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> Stephen
the discussion was quite long on this. The "unmentioned" push coming in
big part from CERN IT is to move to puppet. However it was recognised
that YAIM is still the only thing that doesn't have dependencies and can
be run by any other tool. A move to puppet for us, for example, means
that we will have to change the management system since you can't call
puppet from cfengine. It was also acknowledged that YAIM can be cleaned
up and simplifed so that it doesn't create the problems it's apparently
creating now to quattor at CERN. The reason CERN is using YAIM within
quattor is because they decided not to use quattor templates produced by
GRIF (go figure). However nobody was willing up to now to express a
clear statement.
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