Offline deployment

[Paolo de Rosa]

In some environments due to security reasons it's not possible to access external resources (pip install, wget http://url, etc) because there no internet access.
In these environments it would be very important to support Offline deployment in the charm, this charm is needed by Contrail deployment.

Would it be possible at least to have an option where to point charm in order to get the extra (those resources that cannot be installed using ubuntu packages) resources ?

thanks.

[Cory Johns (johnsca)]

The vanilla Apache Kafka charm supports a resource_mirror option, but it's a bit cumbersome to use. The Bigtop Kafka charm (https://jujucharms.com/kafka), on the other hand, installs via apt, so an internal apt repository should be sufficient to handle network-restricted deployments, with the caveat that the packages come from the Bigtop repository, so they will need to be added to the mirror.

The Bigtop repository info can be found at https://www.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-1.1.0/repos/trusty/ with the repo itself being hosted on S3, and you can see what the individual packages are in their nightly build CI: https://ci.bigtop.apache.org/view/Packages/job/Bigtop-trunk-packages/

[Cory Johns (johnsca)]

Because of the Apache Bigtop payload not having an easy way to be provided without network access, we're recommending cs:trusty/apache-kafka-5 (which was just updated with the network bind interface support) instead of the Bigtop Kafka charm.

We will continue to work on resolving the no-network support for the Bigtop charms for the transition to Xenial.

[Pen Gale (pengale)]

I just published another dev version of this charm, with updated spot fixes: cs:~bigdata-dev/trusty/apache-kafka-21

[Michał Ajduk (majduk)]

Apache kafka contains resources_mirror parameter