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

Hi here,

We have released documentation with our recommendations for those who want to run Talos in Xen Orchestra.

It is available in the official Sidero Labs documentation: Platform specific installation > Virtualized Platforms > Xen Orchestra

We are currently working on providing an example of a Talos cluster that has been created using Terraform.

Have fun

Nice ! Thank you for this.

Fwiw, I started to work on a PoC deployment of a talos cluster this summer and managed to do the full process with pulumi. I'll probably migrate to opentofu when I have everything setup as I want to clean things up.

The whole install and k8s bootstrap takes 2-3 minutes to deploy a 3 nodes control plane and 3 workers from start to finish. You even get the machine configs, kubeconfig and talosconfig as outputs. Then, I deployed fluxcd manually but you could even automate that in the deployment.

Overall, its really impressive and quite easy once you understand the way talos works. Highly recommended !

Great news ! Thanks @olivierlambert and @florent and let me know if you need some information on the vmware side.

Thanks for the details @florent

@florent said in What is the status/roadmap of V2V (Migrating from VMware to XCPng/XO) ?:

the newer VMFS put more lock on the files, locking the full chain of snapshot and base disks instead of locking only the active disk.
Even VMFS5 sometimes lock the full chain.

That explains why I had locking issues trying to restart the source VM on vmware after a migration test.

I'll see if I can find anything on how to use NBD with vmware.

@Cyrille Thanks for the release !

I just tested the happy path of settings (6GB min / 8GB max and 8/8) and it seems to work as expected.
Now, I can get rid of the workaround, that's awesome

Hi @Cyrille, thank you for working on this, it will help a lot.

This is indeed implementing the needed behavior when creating vms from templates, avoiding the use of additional ad-hoc code. For reference, I needed to call the vm.set XO JSON-RPC function after the creation with the following arguments

            rpc_args = {
                "id": vm_id,
                "memory": vm_memory,
                "memoryMin": vm_memory,
                "memoryMax": vm_memory,
                "memoryStaticMax": vm_memory,
            }
            await rpcserver.vm.set(**rpc_args)

I'll try to test the provider patch in the coming days.

Awesome ! Thanks Vates and DESY for all the work that went into this.

I'm really looking forward to use the pulumi provider when I get to the automation part of my tests (probably in a few months though).