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I don't get this. How ie. remote worker will get openQA hostname? Do you mean some kind of zeroconf support (which, assuming avahi, AFAIK works as far as multicast is routed, so even there some backup should be supported)?

Offtopic:
But I must admit that one thing I really loved on maintenance's mtui tool is that it works right after the installation. Install, run, done - that level of functionality would be super cool for spreading the message of openQA :)

Well, once you have the file system mounted on the remote worker, there shouldn't be any more setup necessary. All the necessary information should be gatherable for the worker from the scheduler.

Right now you need to provide the worker with the file system (so far easy as only local workers supported) and provide a workers.ini on every node giving the resolvable name of the UI.

with https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/pull/123 it's no longer necessary to configure it

I wish that was true.

To setup a remote worker, you need to:

1. install the packages
2. setup the NFS mount
3. configure the host you just mounted from /etc/openqa/workers.ini
4. copy the API keys into /etc/openqa/client.conf

IMO the secrets should be read from the NFS share and skip step 3 and 4.

not really no. But then I again, I don't care so much about the future atm