[Hawkular-dev] Installer

John Doyle jdoyle at redhat.com
Fri Jan 29 16:20:36 EST 2016


Nevermind, see that was suggested in a later response.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:19 PM, John Doyle <jdoyle at redhat.com> wrote:

> EAP 7/WildFly 10 CLI can now modify the configuration w/o running the
> server at all. Maybe that fits the bill.
>
> ~jd
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Thomas Segismont <tsegismo at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Totally agree with Mazz (with respect to the rabbit hole).
>>
>> Simple scripts for common install tasks (add-user/etc...) should be
>> enough. And they should not require the server to be half-started but
>> simply operate on files.
>>
>> Le 26/01/2016 22:47, John Mazzitelli a écrit :
>> > After seeing the work involved in prior products' installers, it is my
>> recommendation we do everything in our power to avoid writing a custom
>> installer and to not worry about covering all customization/configuration
>> possibilities.
>> >
>> > Perhaps we write a simple bash script that takes a few parameters and
>> does a bunch of simple file manipulations to change standalone.xml, push
>> files from here to there, that kind of thing. But unless we want to devote
>> alot of time and resources to do it "right" let's try avoid writing an
>> installer. That is a rabbit hole I don't think we should commit to going
>> down right now.
>> >
>> > Just my $0.02 based on past experience.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> On 26 Jan 2016, at 14:25, John Doyle wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Is ansible a viable technology for this?
>> >>
>> >> I am sure that we can supply playbooks for
>> >> users that already use Ansible.
>> >> I am not sure though that "requiring" Ansible
>> >> to get a decent install / start experience is
>> >> the way forward.
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