[pdm-devel] [PATCH datacenter-manager 00/21] improve remote wizard

[Dominik Csapak]

On 8/18/25 14:41, Lukas Wagner wrote:
> On Fri May 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM CEST, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>> # Summary
>>
>> This series improves the remote wizard in various points:
>> * improved wording and texts
>> * moved seperate buttons on pages into the next button
>> * probing of entered nodes
>> * confirmation dialog for missing fingerprints
>> * better realm selector
>>
>> # Notes
>>
>> I'm not super sure about the API call structure. I think two seperate
>> API calls (one for tls probing, one for scanning) might make more sense.
>> If that's wanted, I'll do so in a v2 of the series.
>>
>> ## Probing on the server side
>>
>> I tried to determine if we need a fingerprint for nodes inside the
>> API call, by probing each node. Since we currently only get the
>> nodenames and not FQDNs in the nodelist, this will currently not
>> result in a valid connection in most cases and return the fingerprint.
>>
>> My plan would be to include FQDNs of the nodes on the PVE side API call,
>> so we can return here a list of nodename, ip and FQDNs, which the user
>> then can select from. (which of those I'd probe on first check is yet
>> to be determined)
>>
>> ## Fingerprint confirmation dialogs
>>
>> Not sure if we want to be able to let the user confirm the fingerprint
>> so easily. On one hand it's very convenient, but maybe leads to users
>> simply clicking yes without understanding what's happening.
>>
>> If it's deemed too dangerous, I'd rework the series without this.
>>
>> # Future work
>>
>> The next step for the wizard is to have some kind of quick copy&paste
>> info. After discussing off-list with Fabian a bit, I think it would be
>> best for this to contain the hostname (FQDN?) + fingerprint (if just a
>> self-signed certificate) + a list of nodes with their respective
>> nodename + FQDNs (maybe requires api change on PVE side to generate
>> this). The user would then still have to do most of the steps currently
>> necessary in the wizard, except the manual copy & pasting of
>> fingerprints and maybe entering of FQDNs.
>>
>>
> 
> Seems like these do not apply cleanly any more, could you rebase and
> send a v2? Thanks!
> 

hi, yep sure, i'm currently working on rebasing all my open series