Setup feedback

[swbioinf]

I took some notes as I worked through the README to setup a new bioshell VM. These are suggestions of links or extra context to add that might make the process easier.

1. The concept of spinning up a VM-launching VM was new to me, though it did make sense in hindsight.

2. Depending on intended audience, it might be good to link to or mention some of the necessary pre-setups steps;

• Private / public keypair - already had mine setup
• SSH-access security group: https://tutorials.rc.nectar.org.au/sec-groups-101/03-create : I didn’t have one there I could select by default, had to set it up according to the nectar instructions.
• Openstack API password: https://tutorials.rc.nectar.org.au/openstack-cli/04-credentials : The openstack API password in particular confused me for a bit, as I hadn’t set it up yet.

3. When we need to edit theconfiguration file; openstack-bioshell.pkr.hcl - Its clear what the values would be, but not clear where to put them syntax wise. I ended up putting it in the ‘default; (Tried UUID also)

variable "flavor" {
  type = string
  default = "m3.large"
}

4. Lastly, I specified m3.large, but the machine that openstack spun up was m3.small. I’m not sure if that’s intended because its just going to be snapshotted in the next step or something?

Thanks.

[eileen-xue]

Flavor is defined in packer vars.