[openstack-dev] [TripleO][Tuskar] Domain Model Locations

Tzu-Mainn Chen tzumainn at redhat.com
Thu Jan 9 21:02:17 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> I'm glad we are hashing this out as I think there is still some debate
> around if Tuskar will need a database at all.
> 
> One thing to bear in mind, I think we need to make sure the terminology
> matches that described in the previous thread. I think it mostly does
> here but I'm not sure the Tuskar models do.
> 
> A few comments below.
> 
> On 09/01/14 17:22, Jay Dobies wrote:
> > = Nodes =
> > A node is a baremetal machine on which the overcloud resources will be
> > deployed. The ownership of this information lies with Ironic. The Tuskar
> > UI will accept the needed information to create them and pass it to
> > Ironic. Ironic is consulted directly when information on a specific node
> > or the list of available nodes is needed.
> >
> >
> > = Resource Categories =
> > A specific type of "thing" that will be deployed into the overcloud.
> 
> nit - Wont they be deployed into undercloud to form the overcloud?
> 
> 
> > These are static definitions that describe the entities the user will
> > want to add to the overcloud and are owned by Tuskar. For Icehouse, the
> > categories themselves are added during installation for the four types
> > listed in the wireframes.
> >
> > Since this is a new model (as compared to other things that live in
> > Ironic or Heat), I'll go into some more detail. Each Resource Category
> > has the following information:
> >
> > == Metadata ==
> > My intention here is that we do things in such a way that if we change
> > one of the original 4 categories, or more importantly add more or allow
> > users to add more, the information about the category is centralized and
> > not reliant on the UI to provide the user information on what it is.
> >
> > ID - Unique ID for the Resource Category.
> > Display Name - User-friendly name to display.
> > Description - Equally self-explanatory.
> >
> > == Count ==
> > In the Tuskar UI, the user selects how many of each category is desired.
> > This stored in Tuskar's domain model for the category and is used when
> > generating the template to pass to Heat to make it happen.
> >
> > These counts are what is displayed to the user in the Tuskar UI for each
> > category. The staging concept has been removed for Icehouse. In other
> > words, the wireframes that cover the "waiting to be deployed" aren't
> > relevant for now.
> >
> > == Image ==
> > For Icehouse, each category will have one image associated with it. Last
> > I remember, there was discussion on whether or not we need to support
> > multiple images for a category, but for Icehouse we'll limit it to 1 and
> > deal with it later.
> 
> +1, that matches my recollection.
> 
> >
> > Metadata for each Resource Category is owned by the Tuskar API. The
> > images themselves are managed by Glance, with each Resource Category
> > keeping track of just the UUID for its image.
> >
> >
> > = Stack =
> > There is a single stack in Tuskar, the "overcloud". The Heat template
> > for the stack is generated by the Tuskar API based on the Resource
> > Category data (image, count, etc.). The template is handed to Heat to
> > execute.
> >
> > Heat owns information about running instances and is queried directly
> > when the Tuskar UI needs to access that information.
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > Next steps for me are to start to work on the Tuskar APIs around
> > Resource Category CRUD and their conversion into a Heat template.
> > There's some discussion to be had there as well, but I don't want to put
> > too much into one e-mail.
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> There are a number of other models in the tuskar code[1], do we need to
> consider these now too?
> 
> [1]:
> https://github.com/openstack/tuskar/blob/master/tuskar/db/sqlalchemy/models.py

Nope, these are gone now, in favor of Tuskar interacting directly with Ironic, Heat, etc.

Mainn



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