[Maas-devel] Progress on cobbler stuff

[Gavin Panella]

On 12 March 2012 07:22, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 2012-03-12 13:08, Julian Edwards wrote:
>
>> The reason I don't really want to start syncing with cobbler is
>> because we need maas to be authoritative in terms of state.  As you
>> know, we will remove cobbler at some point and that would make it
>> easier.
>
> It's also important for future scaling.  It's really not a good
> thing to have ORM operations in maasserver block on pserv blocking
> on cobbler.
>
> Ultimately, I'd like to see the query methods disappear from the
> pserv API again.

Yes, agreed.

> Besides the power-control method, what do we need from the cobbler
> database?   IP addresses spring to mind, but could we let the node
> get them through whatever DHCP is available and then let cloud-init
> provide them to the metadata service?

There is also the choice of distro/profile that needs to be obtained
from Cobbler. However, as Julian suggested last week, we may be able
to arrange this to always select Precise.

Gavin.