1182573 - Request for admin virtual machine for dev services

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: Virtualization, task)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

The dev services team under Lawrence Mandel is in need of a shared "admin" host for its team members to perform common tasks, like initiate deployments and aggregate certain data. The load and use of the machine is anticipated to be light, so a VM should fit the bill nicely.

The VM should be in SCL3 so it can talk to various hosts in .dmz.scl3, .webapp.scl3, and .private.scl3. As for which VLAN, etc, I'm not sure. If private.scl3 is a VLAN and "private" means "internal," then that is probably the best place.

Requested hostname: devservicesadmin1[.private.scl3.mozilla.com]
Requested cores: 1
RAM: 2 GB
OS: CentOS 7 (Ubuntu LTS if CentOS 7 not available. Definitely not CentOS 6.)
Disk: default disk
User access (all root): klibby, gszorc, hwine, smacleod

I don't think we have any special requests. But this is the first time I've requested a VM be created.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Perhaps I should have asked for the specified users to have sudo ALL privileges instead of root access. I don't really care how this is done, just that those users all have root privileges some how.

Comment 2

[Greg Cox [:gcox]]

Allocated an IP for this, spun a CentOS7 VM.
Puppetization is running into bug 1131567, and some possibly unrelated mrepo issues.
Ubuntu 14.04 is known to have similar issues with puppet.

We've got 12.04 and RHEL6 as known-working if this is a short-term need.  Else, bug 1137834 is the 'upgrade puppetmasters' bug.

Comment 3

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Can we forego Puppet management on this host? The user list is quite static and we'll probably use our own system outside of sysadmins Puppet for the bulk of system management.

If not, please just create this VM with CentOS 6.

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Removing blocker because I downgraded the request from CentOS 7 to CentOS 6.

gcox: gentle ping on this request. (Bugzilla won't let me needinfo you.)

Comment 5

[Greg Cox [:gcox]]

RHEL6 we can do.  CentOS6 there's no template (because why-bother).
I'm not going to bypass puppet, since that's most of the point, letting us keep good management and audits.

If that's kosher, we can do that.

Comment 6

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

RHEL6 is fine. (In my mind CentOS6 ~= RHEL6 - I just ask for CentOS6 by default because there aren't licensing implications.)

Comment 7

[Greg Cox [:gcox]]

Created as RHEL6, puppeted, users requested are sudo-able / have homedirs / etc.