Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:20:23 -0700 From: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> To: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> Cc: Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis <vrachil@gmail.com>, "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [SoC] Jails management webui Message-ID: <CA053D97-EA5A-48B1-8D87-978FF8AF3BF7@vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <880CCF47-FE30-4092-BDBA-825414E347D3@vicor.com> References: <AANLkTinZ81EdXLV4c7NsYV7Npa0oQC3dJ%2BsMYUohi3XW@mail.gmail.com> <880CCF47-FE30-4092-BDBA-825414E347D3@vicor.com>
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On Mar 26, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> wrote: > On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis <vrachil@gmail.com> w= rote: >=20 >> 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? >=20 > I think this is a great idea. >=20 >> Is it feasible as a SoC project? >=20 > I think that your best chance at success is going to be to design your pro= ject around the fact that the jail management landscape is changing > (in the scope of both the utilities offered in the base for managing jails= at the command-line and the capabilities of what a jail can do such as moun= t ''jail-friendly'' vfs types when allowed via sysctl-knob, etc). >=20 > There are several e-mails in the -jail@ list which can provide a good idea= as to the direction of the jail landscape. >=20 > So, for example, I'd design a web interface that has the ability to mount N= FS from within the jail (via jexec perhaps) not just into the jail (from the= base-host). Even though ZFS is about the only ''jail-friendly'' vfs type, N= FS should eventually make it's way into that group, and once it does, it wou= ld be nice if the web interface either supported it or was modular enough to= extend the capability to support said feature. > --=20 > Cheers, > Devin >=20 >=20 >> 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= "
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