Best way to re-provision a container

komododave Jan 3, 2013 10:52 AM

Following a provisioning failure due to e.g. a repository being temporarily down, is there a way to re-provision a container rather than wait for the agent's next attempt? I'm aware that you can stop and start the container, but wonder whether there's a command to do it without taking the container down.

FMC seems to do it, since the provisioning light changes but the container's alive light stays on.

1. Re: Best way to re-provision a container

stlewis Jan 3, 2013 12:49 PM (in response to komododave)

Best way is to disassociate the profile from the container and then re-associate it. For example in FMC I'll usually just delete the profile from the container, then re-add it, which causes any features/bundles/fabs/configs to get removed and then re-installed. Think it's worth waiting for a couple seconds between removing the profile and re-adding it.

A "profile-touch" command would be a nice improvement though...
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2. Re: Best way to re-provision a container

komododave Jan 3, 2013 6:42 PM (in response to stlewis)

We'll create a Cucumber script that follows what you've advised, thank you Stan.

Perhaps you could create an issue to implement this feature, if not then I will...
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