[BIGTOP-1735] Use puppet installed boxes/images directly to get rid off puppet installation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: deployment, vm
• Assignee: Evans Ye
• Reporter: Evans Ye
• Created: 08/Mar/15 05:17
• Updated: 06/May/17 12:38
• Resolved: 06/May/17 12:38

Description

The BigTop VM/Docker provisioner takes at least 30 mins to complete, which is time consuming for CI tests. In addition, sometimes I got puppet installation failed like this:

==> bigtop1: http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppet-3.7.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppet-3.7.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds')

I think we can switch our deployment bases to those puppet pre-installed vagrant boxes and docker images:

• vagrant-puppet-vm: puppetlabs/ {centos,debian,ubuntu}

  -6.6-64-puppet

• vagrant-puppet-docker: bigtop/puppet: {centos,ubuntu}

Those boxes are pretty mature and even have more downloads than nocm boxes.
At docker side, we can leverage bigtop_toolchain to do puppet installation in dockerfiles.