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Accessing QA Testbed virtual machine
Once a VM is created and assigned to the requestor, the VM is available via SSH. Developers are required to login by using SSH keys. In fact, login with passwords for SSH is disabled by default.
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QA Testbed Resources and Limitations
The QA Testbed delivers virtual machines hosting Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, CentOS), dedicated to GN development teams as demo or testing instances. The QA Testbed hosts VMs assigned permanently to development teams as well as up to 50 Virtual Machines running in parallel and assigned to development teams on a resource-booking basis. Such limitations are due to hardware constraints and a number of assigned public IP addresses.
QA Testbed Procedures
The procedure for requesting virtual machine resources (with CentOS or Ubuntu OS) in the QA testbed is managed through Help Desk. The GÉANT QA testbed JIRA allows you to request the actions described below. The resource can be requested as a fixed VM (assigned permanently to a development team) or as a temporary VM (assigned for a particular time window). As far as the number of fixed VMs is concerned, initially development teams are assigned to the VMs according to the figures given at the time the requirements were specified. The QA testbed calendar shows the confirmed bookings of VMs that are already running, and can be used to check if resources might be available (approximate number of available resources = overall capacity of the QA testbed - resources assigned to already running VMs at a given date). However, the calendar does not guarantee that there are free resources, as there might be requests that are already being processed. The issue creation timestamp determines the order in which tickets are dealt with and resources assigned to VMs.
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