Cobbler Next Steps
Discuss the next steps for cobbler to provide improvements, define level of maintainship, to make sure its continuum with Orchestra.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Dave Walker
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Andres Rodriguez
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- Accepted for precise
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
-
precise-alpha-2
- Started by
- Completed by
- Andres Rodriguez
Whiteboard
Work Items:
[gandelman-a] Hardware detection and inventory snippet: POSTPONED
[zulcss] Add hardware inventory to cobbler API: POSTPONED
[davewalker] Investigate whats been added what is missing on web ui: DONE
Add generic distro support: POSTPONED
[davewalker] Work with Canonical Design on Web UI css and arrangement for brand guidelines: POSTPONED
Fix Profile Updates (upstream?): POSTPONED
Investigate inventory gathering and reporting (SNMP?): POSTPONED
[racb] ARM Preseed fiel review (BOOT!): POSTPONED
== Agenda ==
* Bug Fixing
* Security Issues
* Send patches upstream
* What else needs to be integrated.
* power infrastructure (NUT)?
* ARM
* MIR
* Profile Updates
* Authentication
Inventory needs:
- CPU: Cores, virt capable?
- Storage capacity
- Memory
- Power management
- Disks
- Network devices
- Video (e.g. GPUs), USB, Peripherals (e.g. crypto hardware)
== Postponed TODO's ==
Add cloud-init support to cobbler: DONE
Add EC2 API hook to cobbler: DEPRECATED
Add support for uboot: DONE
Add support for other arches: DONE
Extend cobbler API to do snapshot reporting as well: DEFERRED (Inventory)
Add support for uboot: DONE
Add support for other arches: DONE
== TODOs ==
Add hardware inventory to cobbler API: TODO
Investigate whats been added what is missing on web ui: TODO
Add generic distro support: TODO
Work with Canonical Design on Web UI css and arrangement for brand guidelines: TODO
Fix Profile Updates (upstream?): TODO
Investigate inventory gathering and reporting (SNMP?): TODO
ARM Preseed fiel review (BOOT!): TODO
== Session Notes ==
* More snapshots.
* Fix the theme. Create a new theme instead of patching the default one. (package separately)
Work Items
Dependency tree

* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.