ReleaseOperations/Projects/AutomaticProvisioning

Description

AutomaticProvisioning is the umbrella project for supporting dynamic provisioning of systems within the releng infrastructure. This will include hosts with all supported operating systems (Windows, OS X, and Linux) on a variety of hardware and virtualization platforms (server hardware, Macs, VMware, AWS) as well as mobile testing hardware such as panda boards and tegras.

This is the infrastructure sister project to Auto-tools/Projects/TaskCluster. Both fall under a larger initiative to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of building and testing for Firefox and Firefox OS.

Two other related but out-of-scope projects are:

• Direct Connection to Amazon
• Deploying a local Blob Storage engine

Docs

• notes from initial discussion
• more notes from discussion within relops

Status Meetings

• ReleaseOperations/Projects/AutomaticProvisioning/Meetings

Schedule

(tentative of course)

2014Q1

• Be able to provision Linux instances on a single 4-node iX server chassis via an API call
  • No automatic support for creating images
  • No support for changing VLANs (but planning for this is underway)

2014Q2

• Automatic creation of images with puppet, MDT, Kickstart, etc.
• Dynamic changes to VLANs
• Support production provisioning across all platforms

Components

TBD