[openstack-dev] [fuel] switch to upstream haproxy module

Simon Pasquier spasquier at mirantis.com
Thu May 12 16:00:57 UTC 2016


First of all, I'm +1 on this. But as Matt says, it needs to take care of
the plugins.
A few examples I know of are the Zabbix plugin [1] and the LMA collector
plugin [2] that modify the HAProxy configuration of the controller nodes.
How could they work with your patch?
Simon

[1]
https://github.com/openstack/fuel-plugin-external-zabbix/blob/2.5.0/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/plugin_zabbix/manifests/ha/haproxy.pp#L16
[2]
https://github.com/openstack/fuel-plugin-lma-collector/blob/master/deployment_scripts/puppet/manifests/aggregator.pp#L60-L81

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Alex Schultz <aschultz at mirantis.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Matthew Mosesohn <mmosesohn at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Collapsing our haproxy tasks makes it a bit trickier for plugin
>> developers. We would still be able to control it via hiera, but it
>> means more effort for a plugin developer to run haproxy for a given
>> set of services, but explicitly exclude all those it doesn't intend to
>> run on a custom role. Maybe you can think of some intermediate step
>> that wouldn't add a burden to a plugin developer that would want to
>> just proxy keystone and mysql, but not nova/neutron/glance/cinder?
>>
>>
> So none of the existing logic has changed around the enabling/disabling of
> those tasks within hiera.  The logic remains the same as I'm just including
> the osnailyfacter::openstack_haproxy::openstack_haproxy_* classes[0] within
> the haproxy task.  The only difference is that the task logic no longer
> would control if something was included like sahara.
>
> -Alex
>
> [0]
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/307538/9/deployment/puppet/osnailyfacter/modular/cluster-haproxy/cluster-haproxy.pp
>
>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Alex Schultz <aschultz at mirantis.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey Fuelers,
>> >
>> > We have been using our own fork of the haproxy module within
>> fuel-library
>> > for some time. This also includes relying on a MOS specific version of
>> > haproxy that carries the conf.d hack.  Unfortunately this has meant that
>> > we've needed to leverage the MOS version of this package when deploying
>> with
>> > UCA.  As far as I can tell, there is no actual need to continue to do
>> this
>> > anymore. I have been working on switching to the upstream haproxy
>> module[0]
>> > so we can drop this custom haproxy package and leverage the upstream
>> haproxy
>> > module.
>> >
>> > In order to properly switch to the upstream haproxy module, we need to
>> > collapse the haproxy tasks into a single task. With the migration to
>> > leveraging classes for task functionality, this is pretty straight
>> forward.
>> > In my review I have left the old tasks still in place to make sure to
>> not
>> > break any previous dependencies but they old tasks no longer do
>> anything.
>> > The next step after this initial merge would be to cleanup the haproxy
>> code
>> > and extract it from the old openstack module.
>> >
>> > Please be aware that if you were relying on the conf.d method of
>> injecting
>> > configurations for haproxy, this will break you. Please speak up now so
>> we
>> > can figure out an alternative solution.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > -Alex
>> >
>> >
>> > [0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/307538/
>> >
>> >
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