Manual provisioning - feedback wanted

[Matthew Williams]

Hi Andy,

When you say
"Currently you do need to have an existing, bootstrapped environment. Work
on improving this situation is underway"

What's the idea?

Matt


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Andrew Wilkins <andrew.wilkins at canonical.com
> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> As was noted in the 1.13.3 release notes thread, we did not announce one
> the major features that made it into the release (manual provisioning).
> This was intentional as we have not written any documentation yet. On the
> other hand, it would be good to get some feedback so that we can make
> changes if necessary, or feed into the documentation.
>
> So, below is a bit of a run-down. If you're interested in this feature,
> try it out and let us know if you or have any issues or any thoughts for
> improvement.
>
> ----
>
> As of 1.13.3 you can now do this:
>     juju add-machine ssh:[user@]host
>
> and a series of commands will be carried out on that host, via SSH, to
> provision the machine into the current juju environment. This will enable
> you to compose a juju environment out of your existing systems.
>
> Here's a few things to bear in mind:
>  - Currently you do need to have an existing, bootstrapped environment.
> Work on improving this situation is underway
>  - The machine you're provisioning must be able to route to machine 0 (for
> the state/API), and storage (to get tools, etc.)
>  - There is no change in supported operating systems; the machine being
> provisioned must be running Ubuntu 12.04+
>  - Multiple invocations of ssh will be made, and sudo is used on the
> remote host to install the machine agent. To reduce noisy prompts, you
> should use public key authentication. To completely eliminate prompting,
> you'll also need to enable passwordless sudo on the target host.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
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