[Info-vax] devops / source control - (Was: Where to locate software)

[John E. Malmberg]

On 6/12/2016 10:43 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
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> But that was then...

Now, if you want your system acceptable to IT, it has to be able to use 
their preferred management/monitoring tool.

Supporting all of them could be an issue for VSI.  Maybe third party VMS 
vendors will take up the slack.

This is only a short list.

Configuration Control major players to look at:

* Salt-stack
* puppet
* chef

Monitoring:

* OpenWSMAN - Allows you to make your Linux system look a bit like a 
Windows system.

Other:

openstack
libvirt

Libvirt is for both virtual machines and emulators.

It would be an advantage to an Alpha/Vax/Ia64 emulator if libvirt can 
start, stop, check status, and configure them.  Right now, the closest 
that I can do is run Simh/VAX in a container controlled by libvirt.

Many system management tools like openstack will use libvirt.

Building/testing needs a tool like Jenkins, especially to track multiple 
OS versions.

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The "PRODUCT" pcsi packaging system does not look like it was developed 
for VMS.  I am not sure what platform it was developed for.

It is the one we need to use, at least for now.

If I were to be writing a packaging system from scratch, I would 
probably make it zip file based.

But a packaging system only one part.  You need a system to manage 
collections of packages.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work