[katello-devel] Cloud Engine - System Engine V2 integration

[Bryan Kearney]

On 07/17/2012 09:29 AM, Hugh O. Brock wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 08:57:04AM -0400, Chris Alfonso wrote:
>> On 17/07/12 08:15 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> --snip--
>>> This data would be in the kickstart tempaltes.. yes? I assume if
>>> we go with TDL, we will need a way to translate the ks file which
>>> foreman generates into TDL. Or, could we:
>>>
>>> 1) have an alternate TDL tempalte
>>> 2) ditch TDL and have image factory get the kickstart from foreman directly?
>>>
>> Image Factory hands the TDL off to Oz. Ditching TDL would mean Image Factory ditches Oz, and I think the scope of work would quickly increase.  I recommend we do not ditch TDL and instead translate the ks from foreman into a valid TDL.
>> https://github.com/clalancette/oz/blob/master/docs/tdl.rng
>
> Fair enough. I think both BK and I would prefer to de-emphasize TDL as
> a first-class citizen -- i.e. something we document and tell people
> "you must write your component outlines this way" -- but I see no
> reason to rush around and make more work for ourselves by ditching it
> in a hurry.


Fair enough. If we get an "image record" into katello, we have the API 
point. From then on, it is just deciding who makes the api call, and if 
it is push or pull.

-- bk