Forklift ConfigMap Service

[Miguel Pérez Colino]

Hi all,

Working on an end-to-end demo for Konveyor, in the VM migration part after using Forklift, I wanted to explore the benefits of Kubernetes for the virtual machine.

The Vm has an Oracle-XE Database installed and I thought about being able to attach a "ConfigMap" to it and use it to change the configuration of the Vm and also the Database.

I thought that it could be done by running a script coming from the ConfigMap so I could create a service to mount it and run it.

https://github.com/mperezco/forklift-configmap-service

RPMs and repo available, so it installs clenaly on RHEL:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mperezco/forklift-configmap-service/

I considered using cloud-init to consume it but I found some issues.

• Cloud-init configures things like users, hostname and networking, it cannot be run after the database is started
• Cloud-init could have another configuration source that could be confusing to consume the ConfigMap
• ConfigMap service can be assigned with a dependency to the main service we want to re-configure in the VM so we are sure things like changing tables o pre-loading data are doable and repeatable.

 I'd like to propose including this mini-project as part of Konveyor :-)

Please let me know your thoughts

M*

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[Miguel Pérez Colino]

Hi

Adding +cnv-leads as per Brett Thurber suggestion, to know if there is anything like this already available to mount and parse a ConfigMap attached to a VM.

M*