build standard appliance for openHAB

[Kevin Rasmussen]

Hi community.

I am in the process of building an openSUSE appliance via susestudio for my upcoming openHAB server.

And then I came up with the idea that perhaps we could build a couple of openHAB appliances for easy startup, all-in-one appliance (with designer), developer apliances etc.?

It is free and super easy!

[Ben Jones]

I think this is a great idea. openHAB is rapidly becoming a strong candidate for HA implementations (still a way to go I know but we are getting there!). Having a 'black box' someone can buy and deploy which 'just works' is a big step forward. And this would be a significant move towards that goal.

How would you package it up? What would the hardware requirements be?

[Kevin Rasmussen]

First and foremost susestudio.com is fre of charge, and the appliances build there can be shared to anyone . even publicly shared.

It is possible to build an appliance as:

• Live CD/DVD (.iso), Preload ISO (.iso)
• VMware / VirtualBox (.vmdk)
• OVF virtual machine
• Xen guest, Hyper-V (.vhd)
• SUSE Cloud / OpenStack / KVM
  

And it can be build as one of the above, some of the above or all of the above at the same time.

Then you just downloads the appliance and you are good to go.

I have not thought about actually selling a complete set (hardware with preloaded software) but that should be straigth forward with the Preload ISO build I think.

My intend with this post was merely to easy the installation/deployment phase for everyone. Especially developers (the .vmdk, .vhd, KVM builds for virtual runs), test purposes, quick startups and so forth.

The trick with the suseStudio approach is that you can associate more than one user to an appliance, clone an appliance and customize your own from there, design new appliances, tailored appliances for specific platforms (eg. the RBpi, virtual machines, ZOTAC installs, etc.).

And we only has one community with N number of appliance projects for openHAB. It would also make it very easy to maintain versioning and handle new releases of OH and migration of OH implementation from older versions to newer version due to both the file upload feature and the post and pre script feature.

[lic...@gmail.com]

Hello,

im very interested in this, as i am looking into openhab, to run on my vm-ware host. has something happend since december?

//Magnus

[lic...@gmail.com]

Any news on this??