Components:
- CPU Memory HDD Network Card ( PXE bootable? IPMI? )
- Ubuntu/Debian/RedHatLinux/SUSE SLES 11.1/Fedora
- XEN/KVM/ESX/Hyper-V/LXC/OpenVZ?
- Network Model: Flat / DHCP / VLAN / IPv6 / Quantum
- VM Storage: local vs. san vs ...
- Database MYSQL/SQLite/Postgresql?
- Volume Service: iSCSI, sheepdog, rados...
- Single Node / Multiple Node(What models for multi-node? Redundancy, distributed controller)
- Guest OS: Ubuntu / Debian / RedHatLinux / SUSE SLES 11.1/ Windows Server/Fedora...
- multi-zones / weighted schedulers
Do we want a way to describe environments consistenly?
Do we want some repo/archive of environments? Yes, we do!
Can companies provide their own continuing integration servers that report up?
Vote for Multiple reference
Ref A: Ubuntu/ KVM (+4)
Ref C: RedHatLinux / KVM (+4)
Ref D: RedHatLinux / XenServer
REF E: ESXi/Ubuntu/QEMU (+1) [run nova on top of VM's]
This reference used for CI
Unit test
Smoke test
Stress Test
Benchmarks
ISO image for ref archtecture
It allows users to create ref architecture by just entering the DVD for machine
Can we capture the logs from test runs?
- LogStasher?
- rsyslog + network logging