DevOps Megathread: what you need and how we can help!

BMeach

@bufanda said in DevOps Megathread: what you need and how we can help!:

Backup management with the Terraform provider would be a great feature. Maybe also for an upcoming ansible module. I always struggle to find the right backup for a VM since I grouped them in logical groups. So one Backup may handle multiple VMs and Sometimes it would be just easier to edit some IaC then the GUI, especially when I destroy a VM, I always forget to check if Backups exists.

@nathanael-h said in DevOps Megathread: what you need and how we can help!:

@bufanda I think we'll be able to add backup support to Terraform when 1. the provider will use the new Rest API, and 2. when this API will offer endpoints for backups management. I took note. (This won't be done in minutes )
About Ansible, it'll depends also if/when we start work on it.

+1 to the backup management through Terraform. It would be great to be able to manage backup jobs and sequences through Terraform.

nathanael-h

Hello there, we released a new Pulumi Xen Orchestra provider last month ! It's worth noting that the work on this was started by some contributors from DESY, and that now we (Vates) commit to support and maintain it. This demonstrate the strength of joined work from both community and Vates on free and open source softwares

So what is offered is to declare your infrastructure as code, in Javascript or Typescript, Go, or Python (pick the one you prefer ) and to deploy, maintain, and update it.

https://github.com/vatesfr/pulumi-xenorchestra/

Cyrille

Hello,
If you want to discuss the Pulumi Provider in detail, let discuss here: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/10592/pulumi-xen-orchestra-news

andrewperry

@Jonathon this is really nice to have shared, as we are looking to migrate from the RKE cluster we've deployed on bare-metal Xen to XCP-ng VMs to setup an RKE2 cluster to migrate to.

Will review this and probably have a bunch of questions!

Jonathon

@andrewperry I myself migrated our rancher management cluster from the original rke to a new rke2 cluster using this plan not too long ago, so you should not have much trouble. Feel free to ask questions

Tristis Oris

i found time to play with cloud init, most of examples looks outdated or don't work dunno why.

hostname: {name} don't work, only hostname: {name}%. Also i don't find that macros at official doc.

with manage_etc_hosts: true it changed /etc/hosts 127.0.1.1 basename to 127.0.1.1 basename test%. Maybe package itself bug, maybe XO problem.

preserve_hostname: false looks not required, i don't see any difference.

even if not use any network config, it change netplan (don't need it with dhcp).

network:
  version: 2
  ethernets:
    enX0:
      dhcp4: true

to

network:
  version: 2
  ethernets:
    enX0:
      match:
        macaddress: "my_mac"
      dhcp4: true
      dhcp6: true
      set-name: "enX0"

to save default netplan, need to use something like

network:
  version: 1
  config:
      subnets:
      - type: dhcp4
      type: physical

can't make disk resize work, it looks like rocket science. And this is most important part for me.

resize_rootfs: true
growpart:
  mode: auto
  devices: ['/']
  ignore_growroot_disabled: false

I'm fine enough with manually tuned templates, 99% time don't need to change anything except name\disk. Other tasks require manual attention anyway or already covered with ansible. Would be nice to see tutorial for IQ<3.

nathanael-h

@Tristis-Oris
Hello, thanks for the report. I will try to fix and improve things, but before I have a few questions.

What is the template you are using? Is it one from XOA Hub?
Where did you found the cloud-init config snippets?

For your information, the defaults cloud-init configs snippets come from here: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/blob/master/packages/xo-web/src/common/cloud-config.js#L78-L88

For growpart it depends of the template used. Last time I tested it was working with a Debian 12 template from the XOA Hub.

Tristis Oris

@nathanael-h

my custom template.
forum, cloud-init doc.

Cyrille

Pulumi Xen Orchestra Provider - Release v2.0.0

We released a new version of the Pulumi Xen Orchestra provider.

You can fail more information about the release here : https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/92858

nathanael-h

xo-powershell moves from alpha to beta

The XO-PowerShell module is published in the :microsoft: PowerShell Gallery as v1.0.0-beta

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/xo-powershell/1.0.0-beta

Grab it with one powershell command:

Install-Module -Name xo-powershell -AllowPrerelease

Doc here

Thanks to @dinhngtu @iButcat