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Dr. Shunde Zhang from Aptira has a really good blog post about configuring Tempest
for interoperability testing.

https://aptira.com/testing-openstack-tempest-part-1/

With his permission, I’d like to incorporate this into our docs.

Chris

> On Aug 19, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Catherine Cuong Diep <cdiep at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Daniel & Gema,
> 
> I am all for minimizing the barrier of entry for end users. My main concern is the maintenance and trouble shooting support of the script for ALL cloud deployments. I support the idea as long as this has been considered and addressed in advance.
> 
> Catherine 
> ----- Forwarded by Catherine Cuong Diep/San Jose/IBM on 08/19/2016 09:34 AM -----
> 
> From: Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano at linaro.org>
> To: defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org
> Date: 08/19/2016 03:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [OpenStack-DefCore] Recommended tempest.conf settings
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Daniel & Catherine,
> 
> I think we should definitely write the documentation, I will be doing
> that and sending a patch for review for it.
> 
> Then Daniel and I can also work on the integration of this script, make
> sure script and documentation are in sync and have a commit for that so
> people can try it and Catherine can determine whether it is going to be
> helpful and release some of the time she spends helping people configure
> tempest or not.
> 
> The one problem I see is the maintenance overhead of this script, but we
> have that overhead now distributed amongst all the people running the
> tests and it ends up increasing the barrier of entry to running the
> tests for end users.
> 
> If RefStack is not the right place for it we could also have it as a
> helper script in the Defcore repo, so I think this work is valuable if
> we implement it/document it the right way.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gema
> 
> On 19/08/16 07:40, Daniel Mellado wrote:
> > Hi Catherine,
> > 
> > The script should work for any cloud, as long as it gets the credentials
> > for it and an identity endpoint. It's not tied to any specific distribution.
> > 
> > As Chris was pointing that one of the goals was to have that into
> > RefStack (quoting)
> > 
> >>>> One of our stated goals is to only need to provide an endpoint and
> >>>> credentials to
> >>>> do interoperability testing, but the current state of Tempest and
> >> OpenStack
> >>>> make that a goal we’ll reach further down the line. Optimistically next
> >>>> year, but
> >>>> discoverability and configuration is an open problem.
> >>>>
> > 
> > I was thinking about having it integrated or at least used as a base of
> > what it could do. If you have any concerns we could make it optional and
> > as Gema has also volunteered to do testing I think it'd be a nice
> > addition. Please get back to me if you have any doubt or comment ;)
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > El 18/08/16 a las 22:15, Catherine Cuong Diep escribió:
> >> Hi Gema and Daniel,
> >>
> >> I think a recommendation document is preferred. If it is to integrate in
> >> RefStack, we need to ensure that it would work for all variation of
> >> cloud deployments. BTW, slide 15 thru 17 in [1] documented the common
> >> settings recommend for RefStack/DefCore test.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CoegiPzVp8G4VLdrOYTX9ZI_E-PTRx0gWVpuF9ElKRU/edit#slide=id.g85e96ad23_3_27 <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CoegiPzVp8G4VLdrOYTX9ZI_E-PTRx0gWVpuF9ElKRU/edit#slide=id.g85e96ad23_3_27>
> >>
> >> Catherine
> >> ----- Forwarded by Catherine Cuong Diep/San Jose/IBMon 08/18/2016 11:08
> >> AM-----
> >>
> >> From: Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano at linaro.org>
> >> To: defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org
> >> Date: 08/18/2016 01:17 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [OpenStack-DefCore] Recommended tempest.conf settings
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Daniel,
> >>
> >> integrating this in RefStack would be awesome :D If you want to do the
> >> integration, then we can review and make sure we are not relying too
> >> much on capabilities that are not in the guidelines and I can help
> >> organise/do testing from the end user perspective, we can coordinate
> >> with a few other folks also for testing. Then we document how to use it
> >> in the instructions of the client. It would be really handy for users, I
> >> think.
> >>
> >> Catherine, any thoughts? would this work in your view?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Gema
> >>
> >>
> >> On 18/08/16 08:53, Daniel Mellado wrote:
> >>> Hi Gema,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for pointing this out, I think it's quite helpful and would deff
> >>> come in handy when configuring and running as it looks like everybody
> >>> has been hitting the same wall.
> >>>
> >>> Chris, what you're speaking about surely resembles what our
> >>> configure_tempest script does in our tempest fork
> >>>
> >>>
> >> https://github.com/redhat-openstack/tempest/blob/master/tools/config_tempest.py <https://github.com/redhat-openstack/tempest/blob/master/tools/config_tempest.py>
> >>>
> >>> it configures tempest using api discovery, and for sure can be tweaked
> >>> to add any necessary refstack settings. I'll be going to put this into
> >>> its own repo but I was wondering if you'd be interested about
> >>> integrating it with refstack so it could handle tempest configuration,
> >>> if that's the case I could totally handle that or help with it.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Daniel
> >>>
> >>> El 17/08/16 a las 20:44, Chris Hoge escribió:
> >>>> It’s more of a guide on how to configure Tempest for RefStack Client
> >> runs.
> >>>>
> >>>> One of our stated goals is to only need to provide an endpoint and
> >>>> credentials to
> >>>> do interoperability testing, but the current state of Tempest and
> >> OpenStack
> >>>> make that a goal we’ll reach further down the line. Optimistically next
> >>>> year, but
> >>>> discoverability and configuration is an open problem.
> >>>>
> >>>> Chris
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Aug 17, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch
> >>>>> <mailto:Tim.Bell at cern.ch <mailto:Tim.Bell at cern.ch>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> Great to see these resources as we are using multiple OpenStack clouds.
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> How does this differ from refstack?
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> Tim
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> *From: *Egle Sigler <ushnishtha at hotmail.com
> >>>>> <mailto:ushnishtha at hotmail.com <mailto:ushnishtha at hotmail.com>>>
> >>>>> *Date: *Wednesday 17 August 2016 at 19:03
> >>>>> *To: *Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano at linaro.org
> >>>>> <mailto:gema.gomez-solano at linaro.org <mailto:gema.gomez-solano at linaro.org>>>,
> >>>>> "defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org
> >>>>> <mailto:defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org <mailto:defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org>>"
> >>>>> <defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org
> >>>>> <mailto:defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org <mailto:defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org>>>
> >>>>> *Subject: *Re: [OpenStack-DefCore] Recommended tempest.conf settings
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>> Thank you for starting this Gema, I think it will really help a lot
> >>>>>> of people getting started once we have this.
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>> -Egle
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>> *From:* Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano at linaro.org
> >>>>>> <mailto:gema.gomez-solano at linaro.org <mailto:gema.gomez-solano at linaro.org>>>
> >>>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:01 PM
> >>>>>> *To:* defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org
> >>>>>> <mailto:defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org <mailto:defcore-committee at lists.openstack.org>>
> >>>>>> *Subject:* Re: [OpenStack-DefCore] Recommended tempest.conf settings
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> we are going to be writing a recommendation document on how to
> >> configure
> >>>>>> tempest to be able to run the interop tests. The idea is to lower the
> >>>>>> entry barrier for end users to be able to run the interop tests.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We have created an etherpad where some notes have started to appear:
> >>>>>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/defcore-tempest-configuration <https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/defcore-tempest-configuration>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If you could please share your notes there I will run through some
> >> tests
> >>>>>> to validate that the options and sane and write a document explaining
> >>>>>> how to configure tempest for newbies. Share what you have, I will make
> >>>>>> sense of it all and unify it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks in advance!
> >>>>>> Gema
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 16/08/16 18:37, Gema Gomez wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I remember we discussed during the midcycle about the recommended
> >>>>>>> tempest.conf and hogepoge and catherine had very solid definite
> >>>>>>> recommendations for it.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> If you could share them I'd like to put some document together for our
> >>>>>>> repo or for RefStack, wherever it belongs, with the recommendations.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>>> Gema
> >>>>>>
> 
> 
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