Replacing HOB in Build Appliance for YP 1.9

Replacing HOB in Build Appliance for YP 1.9

[Georgescu, Alexandru C]

Hello,
In 1.9 HOB is intended to be deprecated by Toaster functionality. This
means that Build Appliance also must be changed. Since HOB is started
automatically in BA in order to help users get started quickly with YP, I
have the following proposal for updating BA in 1.9 and to replace HOB:


* Update current BA implementation in order to support Toaster (maybe few
patches needed to be included in the image in order to run Toaster)
* If Toaster is enabled in BA then the user might be able to run Toaster
from his host machine, or if BA is installed on a remote server, just
access the server via HTTP.
* this should be an easy solution to implement and maintain the BA
functionality.

There are solutions like Docker that were previously discussed, but my
opinion is that first of all Docker is limited to Linux only. Secondly it
will need much more QA effort (support at least 4 distros that YP
currently supports) and more failure prone for specific Docker
configurations.

Regards,
--
Alexandru Georgescu
Yocto QA Engineer
SSG/SSD Open Source Technology Center Romania

Re: Replacing HOB in Build Appliance for YP 1.9

[Trevor Woerner]

On 04/30/15 12:06, Georgescu, Alexandru C wrote:
> Since HOB is started
> automatically in BA in order to help users get started quickly with YP, I
> have the following proposal for updating BA in 1.9 and to replace HOB:

...

and updating relevant documentation, such as:
https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/build-appliance-manual

Re: Replacing HOB in Build Appliance for YP 1.9

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Yes - this "build-appliance-manual" will need to be updated.  Is the work to replace HOB in the BA for 1.9 going to have bug associated with it?  

Scott

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>To: Georgescu, Alexandru C; yocto@yoctoproject.org
>Cc: Paul Eggleton
>Subject: Re: [yocto] Replacing HOB in Build Appliance for YP 1.9
>
>On 04/30/15 12:06, Georgescu, Alexandru C wrote:
>> Since HOB is started
>> automatically in BA in order to help users get started quickly with
>> YP, I have the following proposal for updating BA in 1.9 and to replace HOB:
>
>...
>
>and updating relevant documentation, such as:
>https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/build-appliance-manual
>
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Re: Replacing HOB in Build Appliance for YP 1.9

[Stewart, David C]

+1

On 4/30/15, 9:06 AM, "Georgescu, Alexandru C"
<alexandru.c.georgescu@intel.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>In 1.9 HOB is intended to be deprecated by Toaster functionality. This
>means that Build Appliance also must be changed. Since HOB is started
>automatically in BA in order to help users get started quickly with YP, I
>have the following proposal for updating BA in 1.9 and to replace HOB:
>
>
>* Update current BA implementation in order to support Toaster (maybe few
>patches needed to be included in the image in order to run Toaster)
>* If Toaster is enabled in BA then the user might be able to run Toaster
>from his host machine, or if BA is installed on a remote server, just
>access the server via HTTP.
>* this should be an easy solution to implement and maintain the BA
>functionality.
>
>There are solutions like Docker that were previously discussed, but my
>opinion is that first of all Docker is limited to Linux only. Secondly it
>will need much more QA effort (support at least 4 distros that YP
>currently supports) and more failure prone for specific Docker
>configurations.
>
>Regards,
>--
>Alexandru Georgescu
>Yocto QA Engineer
>SSG/SSD Open Source Technology Center Romania
>
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