Difference between revisions of "Ganymede Provisioning Workshop Breakout Results"

Revision as of 14:22, 10 April 2007

Co-existence of multiple provisioners

• multiple sources
• multiple users
• interaction of multiple sources (priority, precedence, preference)
• shared runtimes
• shared binaries
• repository discover (RSS? Web servcies?)
• disconnected cases
  • media (including media and/or artifacts)
  • pending connection - future installation
• on-the-fly creation of native packages (in the background)
• admin interaction
• touchpoints for native installation methods (ex. MSI, RPM)

Spectrum of Governance : Local control with central governance

• initial provisioning
• ongoing provisioning
  • points of control
    • "I am the governance provider" -- ensure that at the OSGi layer we can control who can activate bundles
  • potential for ongoing communication between provisioning server and client
    • license revocation or mandatory changes for other reasons
• hooks for governance both server and client side
  • validation at provisioning server
    • based on not only resolver but also other policies including software configuration settings
• spectrum of governance
  • fully managed
    • no or almost no client-side ui
    • user has no choice over what is installed and can not install additional software
  • partially managed
    • roles of user can differ (can they choose to install software)
    • governance may be required while end user is installing software
    • governance may be restricted to a certain set of "critical" components
    • potential for some user interface but may be restricted
  • no management
    • complete provisioning ui (comparable to existing update manager UI)