[StarCluster] StarCluster Plugins

[Sergio Mafra]

Good move Dmitry..

If someone has more plugins who wants to share.. be welcomed here.

All best,

Sergio


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Dmitry Serenbrennikov
<dmitry at adchemy.com>wrote:

>  Same here.
>
>
>  Here's another plugin that I have written. It integrates Chef such that
> master nodes are configured as chef clients/nodes.
>
> https://gist.github.com/nitecoder/9605618
>     <https://gist.github.com/nitecoder/9605618>
>   This is a Chef plugin for StarCluster. It's really my first ever
> StarCluster plugin, plus I'm very new to Chef as well. So please take with
> a grain of salt. Any feedback is welcome! Especially, a few things are not
> quite to my liking: chef's authentication system seems to presume that
> validation.pem file is widely distributed. I'm attempting to limit the need
> for this file being everywhere (by u
>  This is a Chef plugin for StarCluster. It's really my first ever
> StarCluster plugin, plus I'm very new to Chef as well. So please take with
> a grain of salt. Any feedback is welcome! Especially, a few things are not
> quite to my liking: chef's authentication system seems to presume that
> validation.pem file is widely distributed. I'm attempting to limit the need
> for this file being everywhere (by using chef bootstrap). It works, but
> doesn't seem like the right approach. Am I just misunderstanding Chef
> somehow? currently it's not possible to tell if starcluster node is
> terminated or just stopped. If one deletes chef client on stop, then start
> doesn't work. I chose to delete the node but leave the client. But this
> also doesn't seem like the right approach. - Gist is a simple way to share
> snippets of text and code with others.
>  Read more... <https://gist.github.com/nitecoder/9605618>
>    It's kind of clunky but seems to work. In particular, I've attempted
> to de-provision the node (if not the client) when cluster terminates. But
> I'm new to Chef and StarCluster both, so this could be totally missing the
> way Chef is supposed to operate.
>
>
>  Any feedback is welcome!
>
>
>  Thanks!
>
> -Dmitry
>
>
>
>
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> *From:* starcluster-bounces at mit.edu <starcluster-bounces at mit.edu> on
> behalf of Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 16, 2014 9:21 PM
> *To:* Sergio Mafra
> *Cc:* starcluster at mit.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [StarCluster] StarCluster Plugins
>
>   Thanks Sergio,
>
>  You have a second there.
>
>  People were very helpful to me in the past when I asked questions and
> they suggested plugins that solved my problems. However, I still do not
> understand too much about them to the point I can write one on my own, and
> I saw others in the list that ask similar questions about plugins.
>
>  The real question is if anyone who understands enough is willing to take
> this effort of a centralized repository?
>
>  If someone does choose to invest in this it will help for sure and may
> grow to be a useful tool set.
>
>             Jacob
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi fellows,
>>
>>  I´ve got no doubt that StarCluster is a fantastic tool. This helps lots
>> of people on creating and managing an array of clusters.
>> But there is more.. the plugins.. They can help us improve what is really
>> great.
>> The problem is knowing how to really develop and find them. They are
>> scattered on internet.
>> I think that if someone (loving soul) creates a catalog of plugins,
>> starting with "How to develop a StarCluster plugin for dummies"... this
>> should be something. Better if Justin and Rayson cloud enhance the
>> StarCluster´s site (
>> http://star.mit.edu/cluster/docs/latest/manual/plugins.html#plugin-system)
>> to be like a micro git.
>> Tell me what do you think.
>>
>> Sergio
>>
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