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Commit 43f30ee6 authored by Iustin Pop's avatar Iustin Pop
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Fix formatting in design-2.0-os-interface

Reviewed-by: imsnah
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......@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ The current Ganeti OS interface, version 5, is tailored for Ganeti 1.2. The
interface is composed by a series of scripts which get called with certain
parameters to perform OS-dependent operations on the cluster. The current
scripts are:
create
called when a new instance is added to the cluster
export
......@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ The Scripts
As in Ganeti 1.2, every OS which wants to be installed in Ganeti needs to
support the following functionality, through scripts:
create:
used to create a new instance running that OS. This script should prepare the
block devices, and install them so that the new OS can boot under the
......@@ -95,6 +97,7 @@ Incompatibilities with 1.2
We expect the following incompatibilities between the OS scripts for 1.2 and
the ones for 2.0:
- Input parameters: in 1.2 those were passed on the command line, in 2.0 we'll
use environment variables, as there will be a lot more information and not
all OSes may care about all of it.
......@@ -114,6 +117,7 @@ Input
Rather than using command line flags, as they do now, scripts will accept
inputs from environment variables. We expect the following input values:
INSTANCE_NAME
Name of the instance acted on
HYPERVISOR
......@@ -150,6 +154,7 @@ page. All these variables will be available to all scripts.
Some scripts will need a few more information to work. These will have
per-script variables, such as for example:
NEW_INSTANCE_NAME
rename: the name the instance should be renamed to.
EXPORT_NODE
......@@ -172,7 +177,7 @@ command line, so we'll move it for uniformity.)
Output/Behaviour
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As discussed scripts should only send user-targeted information to stdout. The
create and import scripts are supposed to format/initialise the given block
......@@ -194,7 +199,7 @@ subset of the ganeti hypervisors, by declaring them in the 'hypervisors' file.
Caveats/Notes
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We might want to have a "default" import/export behaviour that just dumps all
disks and restores them. This can save work as most systems will just do this,
......@@ -205,4 +210,3 @@ enough space to store the information we need. If we discover that this is not
the case we may want to go to a more complex API such as storing those
information on the filesystem and providing the OS script with the path to a
file where they are encoded in some format.
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