[Hawkular-dev] RfD: Installer

[John Doyle]

Is ansible a viable technology for this?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Heiko W.Rupp <hrupp at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> while the All In One zip works well for demoing, using Hawkular in a
> more serious scenario requires a lot of options and settings
>
> * External C*:  $CASSANDRA_NODES and -Dhawkular.backend=remote
> * Binding to non-localhost: -b a.b.c.d and
> -Dkeycloak.server.url=http://a.b.c.d:8080/auth
> * Adding jdoe to a dist build:
> -Dkeycloak.import=./standalone/configuration/hawkular-realm-for-dev.json
> * Using an external RDBMS for keycloack users: "before the server first
> boots, the `KeycloakDS` on `standalone.xml` should be changed to point
> to an external database." (this applies when using the embedded KC and
> not a separate standalone one)
> * If not using jdoe above: setting user/password for the internal agent
> after a user was created
> * Dorking around with standalone.xml to chose up a mail server
> * Setting other java opts
>
> all the above involve a huge amount of manual steps and configuration
> changes.
>
> I think it is thus time to introduce some sort of installer or config
> script that is able to make the changes. I think there is meanwhile even
> a cli mode that can apply the changes (to standalone.xml) on a
> non-running server. Some options could be set in env variables or
> directly applied to the standalone.xml.
>
> If we still need to supply env-variables we may potentially also create
> a start script from the  installer, which sets the variabls and then
> calls standalone.sh
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