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Jesse, thanks for the information! I will look into this. The proxy server
and local repo option might just work for us.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:53 AM Jesse Pretorius <jesse.pretorius at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 15 September 2015 at 05:36, Weidong Shao <weidongshao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Compass, an openstack deployment project, is in process of using osad
>> project in the openstack deployment. We need to support a use case where
>> there is no Internet connection. The way we handle this is to split the
>> deployment into "build" and "install" phase. In Build phase, the Compass
>> server node can have Internet connection and can build local repo and other
>> necessary dynamic artifacts that requires Internet connection. In "install"
>> phase, the to-be-installed nodes do not have Internet connection, and they
>> only download necessary data from Compass server and other services
>> constructed in Build phase.
>>
>> Now, is "offline install" something that OSAD project shall also support?
>> If yes, what is the scope of work for any changes, if required.
>>
>
> Currently we don't have a offline install paradigm - but that doesn't mean
> that we couldn't shift things around to support it if it makes sense. I
> think this is something that we could discuss via the ML, via a spec
> review, or at the summit.
>
> Some notes which may be useful:
>
> 1. We have support for the use of a proxy server [1].
> 2. As you probably already know, we build the python wheels for the
> environment on the repo-server - so all python wheel installs (except
> tempest venv requirements) are done directly from the repo server.
> 3. All apt-key and apt-get actions are done against online repositories.
> If you wish to have these be done online then there would need to be an
> addition of some sort of apt-key and apt package mirror which we currently
> do not have. If there is a local repo in the environment, the functionality
> to direct all apt-key and apt-get install actions against an internal
> mirror is all there.
>
> [1]
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-ansible/commit/?id=ed7f78ea5689769b3a5e1db444f4c16f3cc06060
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