Question In the GitHub repo the DOCKER.md refers to the metroae command being used to launch the container as well as initiate automation deployments and workflows within. How can the container be launched from the command line with command examples? Answer When you run the command: metroae pull The command
We recently saw a problem where a user was having trouble doing an install via ./metroae install_everything. The problem: metroae was completing without doing anything. In the output, every component type displayed a message like this: [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: vstats PLAY [vstats] ****************************************************************** skipping: no hosts
We recently had a user stumble over input data validation. In MetroAE v3, all input data in your deployments folder is schema validated. This means that every file in your deployment must conform to the schema. This includes required data. In the case under discussion, a user sent us their
Jinja2 substitution in deployment files is not currently supported. Many build_vars files included “{{ dns_domain }}” tags. In the v3.0.0 convert_build_vars_to_deployment script, it carried these substitutions into the deployment files and thus corrupted them. This is fixed in v3.0.1 to perform the substitution beforehand. If the inventory is corrupted, the
A common problem we hear from the field is an error when MetroAE attempts to execute a yum update on the VSDs. This takes place during the vsd-deploy phase and results in this error text: This problem is going to prevent you from moving forward because the vsd-install script hasn’t
With the introduction of Croxley, MetroÆ supports a new, schema-validated method of user input. The implementatino is such that now each section of the old build_vars.yml file now has its own file: vsds.yml vscs.yml common.yml and so on As an aid to hep you convert from the older format to
