[Fiware-lab-help] UAT | 7 Regions tested: "create a VM" scenario

[Federico Michele Facca]

Dear Peter,
Thanks for your feedbacks. There is an ongoing effort to make uniform as
much as possible set-up across nodes (in term of naming conventions across
network and access to shared / external networks).

Still, things cannot be identical on each node for several reasons related
to the ability of provide more advanced services to users. Spain uses a
"dumb" service for the network, which has many limitations (sure it's
bullet proof for any unskilled user): e.g. the network that is shared among
all users, which means any vm in spain (regardless the tenant owning it)
can reach transparently any other vm in spain (which is not very safe).

We are going as well to free up resources, thanks to the application of new
policies, that will as well reduce number of errors caused by the fact that
a region is full. We are also establishing automatic functional testing
over each node to be run daily to ensure that nodes behave as supposed.

Regards,
Federico

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Muryshkin, Peter <
Peter.Muryshkin at iais.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> Dear FIWARE teams,
>
>
>
> in terms of our survey for European Pioneers we have executed a User
> Acceptance Test nailed down to the most essential end-user scenario for 7
> regions listed below:
>
> „I want to be able to get a shell access with a public IP to an instance
> in a simple and straightforward way“.
>
> We are available that Terms of Usage are changing soon and ID verfication
> will be required to access public IPs, but this is not the issue here.
>
>
>
> We have tried today to create an instance in each region with the
> following results. (Account name for admins to look up the logs:
> christian.bonkowski at iais.fraunhofer.de, instance name: test-iais)
> Every time we expected that *same steps *are required to create a VM with
> a public IP and shell acccess. We assume also that not every potential
> customer with overall intermediate skill level has enough knowledge to
> manually configure a network.
>
> Typical error pattern in many cases was, there is a default network which
> cannot be used without an error, and custom network usage can also result
> in an error.
>
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>
> *Region*
>
> *Public IP allowed*
>
> *Manual*
>
> *Details*
>
> *UAT synopsis*
>
> UAT: get IP+VM shell
>
> Lannion
>
> Yes
>
> Yes
>
> Manual 12 pages, not very straightforward.
>
> With manual acceptable but not competitive.
>
> PASS
>
> Spain
>
> Yes
>
> No
>
> No Networks/Router, auto-assign of int. IP
>
> Allocation of public IP easy.
>
> PASS
>
> Trento
>
> No
>
> No
>
> Much trial&error required
>
> Admin skills needed for network
>
> FAIL
>
> Waterford
>
> Yes
>
> No
>
> Manual network config
>
> Undefined error on IP assign.
>
> FAIL
>
> Berlin
>
> No
>
> No
>
> Manual network config
>
> No public IP available.
>
> FAIL
>
> Pragua
>
> Yes
>
> No
>
> As in Spain, no networks
>
> IP ok. Error on instance creation.
>
> FAIL
>
> Mexico
>
> Yes
>
> No
>
> Own network = no instance
>
> 400 error on instance launch.
>
> FAIL
>
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> We recommend a to implement a formal quality assurance process based on an
> audit so that all regions can implement same must-have common functionality
> at least for this one scenario, if possible. Think of McDonlads: you get
> identical Cola &BigMac offer everywhere but some regions have got their own
> food specials.
>
>
> Additionally, most successful regions like Spain might want to share their
> knowledge with other regions.
>
>
>
> Kind regards / viele Grüße & Servus
>
> Peter Muryshkin, M. Sc.
>
>
>
> Skype ID: peter_iais
>
> LinkedIn: http://de.linkedin.com/in/muryshkin
>
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