719622 - set up lion systems for work on a builder image

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: General, task, P1)

Description

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Amy and I have context for this that I won't repeat here.  Basically, we need to get the equipment in place to deploy rev5 minis with lion.  That has a few parts:

 - DeployStudio support for rev5 hardware
 - A base image
 - Puppet manifests

John Ford will be working on the latter, so if possible it'd be best to find a way to get him started quickly, without waiting for DS support.  I see two ways to do that:

* Get the rev5 minis that were being used for performance testing gathered somewhere like scl1 and put on the build network, with fresh Lion images and https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/SpecOps/New+Mini+Setup+Process

* Re-purpose a few of the existing rev4 lion minis, which DS already supports, putting a fresh Lion image on them.  I *think* there's a "fresh" master image in DeployStudio now.

John, how many would you like, and on what kind of timeframe will you be able to work on this?

Comment 1

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

(In reply to Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] from comment #0)
> John, how many would you like, and on what kind of timeframe will you be
> able to work on this?

I would like one scratch machine at my desk in sfo (already have this) and 3-4 machines on the build network with fresh installs if possible.  If we have more than 4 spare rev5 machines, its helpful to have more available in case something goes wrong with the machines while I test puppet stuff.

I was able to find Xcode 4.2.1 as a .dmg, so I'll see if I can find one for 4.1.

Comment 2

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

From 722522

> I have almost completed the image work for the new 10.7 build machines.  I
> would like to start verifying that these machines are in proper working
> order as well as letting developers see the results of these builds.
> 
> It's time to run a medium scale test of this image, much like we did with
> the rev4 test machines.  I'd like to keep this as close as possible to what
> we'll end up deploying in the real world.  Please use only Quad Core i7
> Macmini5,3 based machines.  It is not important for the machine to have the
> exact storage configuration that we are going with.
> 
> I am not sure which hardware I can use, but there are 10 extras being
> ordered in bug 720788.  If we can set up a couple of the eval macmini5,3
> machines before those 10 arrive, that'd be helpful.
> 
> Please follow the steps detailed at
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReferencePlatforms/Test/Lion#Initial_Machine_Setup
> to set up the base image.  One of these machines will likely become the
> reference image.  I can provide the xcode dmg if needed.

I am going to mark that bug as a dupe of this bug so there is one place tracking the work.

Comment 4

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

UPS shows the 10 initial machines as being on time for a delivery tomorrow.  Do we have any estimates for when these machines will be available for me to test with?

Comment 5

[Jake Watkins [:dividehex]]

The 10 r5 minis have arrived and I have prepared 6 of them to be deployed to scl1 today.

The host names will be r5-mini-{001...006}

Comment 6

[Jake Watkins [:dividehex]]

(In reply to John Ford [:jhford] from comment #2)
> From 722522
> > Please follow the steps detailed at
> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReferencePlatforms/Test/Lion#Initial_Machine_Setup
> > to set up the base image.  One of these machines will likely become the
> > reference image.  I can provide the xcode dmg if needed.
> 

Please provide the 4.1 xcode dmg so that we may finish building the baseline images

Comment 7

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

The network in SFO was very slow (60k) to re-download the dmg.  Its uploading to stage

/home/jford/xcode_4.1_for_lion.dmg

It is named "xcode_4.1_for_lion.dmg.filepart" until it finishes its transfer

$ openssl sha1 xcode_4.1_for_lion.dmg
SHA1(xcode_4.1_for_lion.dmg)= d766ef9b3e7c4a1b5b7915e20e8949d9503c5b89

Comment 8

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

(In reply to John Ford [:jhford] from comment #7)
> The network in SFO was very slow (60k) to re-download the dmg.  Its
> uploading to stage

err, people

Comment 9

[Jake Watkins [:dividehex]]

The image has been built and deployed to 6 r5 minis located in SCL1.  The host names are r5-mini-001 through r5-mini-006.