[Review Queue] hpcc charm

[José Antonio Rey]

It is a nice idea, but it should definitely fire up a warning saying
that the machine will have larger specs, as well as asking for
confirmation. I don't want to see any surprise charges in my AWS bills!

On 08/27/2014 02:34 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 27/08/14 00:10, Matt Bruzek wrote:
>>  First and most importantly the hpcc charm deploys according to the readme
>> file! I had to increase the memory constraints on the HP-cloud to 4GB per
>> machine (juju set-constraints mem=4GB) so all the services had enough
>> memory to start up. After that I was able to cluster by adding units of
>> hpcc.
> 
> We have a couple of charms which break on tiny instances on some clouds
> because of this sort of disconnect. Would it be helpful to be able to
> encode minimum requirements in the charm metadata?
> 
> Obviously, real requirements are configuration and load dependent, but I
> think we could avoid the obvious "try it then debug it" cycle if we had
> some explicit minimum requirements up front.
> 
> Thanks for the review commentary and advice to charmers!
> 
> Mark
> 

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José Antonio Rey