Softserve is a web based service which enables users to self-provision virtual machines for a fixed duration. These virtual instances can be used to debug issues arising in various topics within the Gluster project. The provisioned VMs will get automatically removed after a fixed number of hours (at present this is set to 4 hrs)
The Gluster Infrastructure Project offers an instance of this service. To deploy this service outside of the Infrastructure, please follow the instruction set below.
- Before you start installation make sure you have a working installation of python2
- Create and activate virtualenv
- In your virtualenv run
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt - Now you are all ready with the installation and development
- Launch the VMs as per the need of the user.
- Tear down automatically after a specific number of hours(4 hours). This is a requirement so that the machine time is used judicially and tied down to a specific bug
- Allow only those users who are in the Gluster organization on Github to request VMs.
- Users should be able to upload their SSH public key and they will get access to the machines when it is created.
- Maximum allowance of 5 VMs at a time across all the user.
- Send the notification to the user half an hour before terminating the VM ( when meeting the deadline of the 4 hours)
- Run migrations and setup database
flask db upgrade - To run the softserve app on localhost run
flask run - Create application.cfg and add
DEBUG=Trueto it so as to enable debug mode for your flask app - By default this application reads and writes the data into sqlite but it can be overriden in your application.cfg
- Write down the test cases
- Operating system: CentOS 7(template with dependencies installed for glusterfs)
- RAM: 2GB
- CPU: 2 vCPUs
- System Disk: 40GB
- Network: 400Mb/s