Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:18:06 -0700 From: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> To: Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis <vrachil@gmail.com> Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [SoC] Jails management webui Message-ID: <880CCF47-FE30-4092-BDBA-825414E347D3@vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinZ81EdXLV4c7NsYV7Npa0oQC3dJ%2BsMYUohi3XW@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinZ81EdXLV4c7NsYV7Npa0oQC3dJ%2BsMYUohi3XW@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis <vrachil@gmail.com> 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"=
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