From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 17:46:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9EE106566B for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:46:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dteske@vicor.com) Received: from postoffice.vicor.com (postoffice.vicor.com [69.26.56.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA738FC14 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [173.241.25.35] (port=49618 helo=[10.0.0.103]) by postoffice.vicor.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.74) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3X7o-0005SF-6u; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:18:10 -0700 References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8C148) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <880CCF47-FE30-4092-BDBA-825414E347D3@vicor.com> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (8C148) From: Devin Teske Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:18:06 -0700 To: Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis X-Scan-Signature: 3ac2881c5dcc75402359056e13437500 X-Scan-Host: postoffice.vicor.com Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: [SoC] Jails management webui X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:46:29 -0000 On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis wr= ote: > Hello, >=20 > my name is Ilias, and I am a student from Greece. > I wanted to propose an idea for this year's summer of code, > but I am not sure how useful it actually is for others. >=20 > I would like to create a webui to manage the jails on a system. > The only other alternative I could find at the moment is > a webmin plugin. The thing is that webmin is a fairly generic tool > that can do a lot of things. My idea was to create a django-based > application designed specifically for jail management and deployment. >=20 > Does this functionality actually appeal to people? I think this is a great idea. > Is it feasible as a SoC project? I think that your best chance at success is going to be to design your proje= ct around the fact that the jail management landscape (in the scope of both t= he utilities offered in the base for managing jails at the command-line and t= he capabilities of what a jail can do such as mount ''jail-friendly'' vfs ty= pes when allowed via sysctl-knob, etc). There are several e-mails in the -jail@ list which can provide a good idea a= s to the direction of the jail landscape. So, for example, I'd design a web interface that has the ability to mount NFS= from within the jail (via jexec perhaps) not just into the jail (from the b= ase-host). Even though ZFS is about the only ''jail-friendly'' vfs type, NFS= should eventually make it's way into that group, and once it does, it would= be nice if the web interface either supported it or was modular enough to e= xtend the capability to support said feature. --=20 Cheers, Devin > Regards, > Ilias > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=