[Fiware-webui] Some open questions related to FIWARE's WebUi project

["Jonne Väisänen"]

Thank you for the reply,
I'll try to create a new blueprint for the VirtualCharacter GE and see
what happens.

br,
Jonne Väisänen (LudoCraft)

> Hi,
>
>> 1. Create chef Cookbook for the GE. [ ... ]
>>
>> 2. Send a approval ticket to Fi-Lab [ ... ]
>>
>> 3. After the recipe is approved, you should find a new recipe in FI-LAB.
>> Create a new blueprint template that uses approved recipe, And create a
>> new vm instance to make sure that the blueprint is working correctly.
>> I tried to search how to create blueprints, but couldn't find any
>> information from the old mailing list messages.
>
> For me, it worked this way:
>
> You need a FI-Lab-Account, so you can connect to
> http://cloud.lab.fi-ware.org. There, on the left-hand side, you find a
> menu entry "Blueprint Templates".  This will take you to the Blueprint
> Templates view, where you can select the tab "Create New Template" in
> the upper right corner. Having assigned a name (to be on the safe side,
> use only digits and letters. Some special characters, for example dash,
> seem to cause problems) and description, your new template will appear
> in the template view.
>
> Click on the template's name, and you will be able to edit the template
> and add software to it. This software is installed in one or more Tiers,
> with each Tier spawning one VM later. Note that there is a limit of how
> many VM can be created, for me, it was 3, so your blueprint should not
> have more than 3 Tiers.
>
> For each Tier, you can assign a name, flavour and image type. In the
> step "Install Software", you can finally select your approved recipe
> from a list of available recipes in the catalog.
>
> Once your blueprint and its tiers are configured, you should be able to
> launch an instance of the Blueprint. However, for me, to this day,
> launching Blueprints fails most of the time with different errors, or
> gets stuck in the deployment- or installation process. Not only for the
> templates that I have created, but also for those that are available in
> the template catalog. So for our Blueprints, I could not get a working
> test installation yet, and thus not request to have them copied to the
> blueprint catalog.
>
>
>
> Concerning JIRA-Bugs, I think you can just mark them "fixed", then they
> will go into a status where someone checks if the problem is solved and
> sets the issue "done", or re-opens it, if the bug still exists.
>
> We are facing the same questions concerning JIRA-Accounts: I requested
> accounts for people who do the implementation work on our side, but also
> got the reply that accounts are only created for GEi owners.
>
> I hope I could help.
>
> Best Regards,
> Torsten
>
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