Open Stack

On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 09:58 -0800, Chris Hoge wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2018, at 9:44 PM, Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:43:37AM -0800, Chris Hoge wrote:
> > > There is a need for us to work out whether Loci is even
> > > appropriate for
> > > stable branch development. Over the last week or so the CentOS
> > > libvirt
> > > update has broken all stable branch builds as it introduced an
> > > incompatibility between the stable upper contraints of python-
> > > libvirt and
> > > libvirt.
> > 
> > Yup, as we've seen on https://review.openstack.org/#/c/622262 this
> > is a
> > common thing and happens with every CentOS minor release.  We're
> > working
> > the update to make sure we don't cause more breakage as we try to
> > fix
> > this thing.
> > 
> > > libvirt. If we start running stable builds, it might provide a
> > > useful
> > > gate signal for when stable source builds break against upstream
> > > distributions. It's something for the Loci team to think about as
> > > we
> > > work through refactoring our gate jobs.
> > 
> > That's interesting idea.  Happy to discuss how we can do that in a
> > way
> > that makes sense for each project.  How long does LOCI build take?
> 
> Loci makes one build for each OpenStack project you want to deploy.
> The
> requirements container takes the most time, as it does a pip wheel of
> every requirement listed in the openstack/requirements repository,
> then
> bind-mounts the complete set of wheels into the service containers
> during
> those builds to ensure a complete and consistent set of dependencies.
> Requirements must be done serially, but the rest of the builds can be
> done in parallel.
> 
> What I'm thinking is if we do stable builds of Loci that stand up a
> simplified all-in-one environment we can run Tempest against, we
> would
> both get a signal for the Loci stable build (as well as master) and a
> signal for requirements. Co-gating means we can check that an update
> to
> requirements to fix one distrubution does not negatively impact the
> stability of other distributions.
> 
> I have some very initial work on this in a personal project (this is
> how
> I like to spend some of my holiday down time), and we can bring it up
> as
> an agenda item for the Loci meeting tomorrow morning.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 

I like the idea of having REAL testing of the loci images.
Currently we just install software, and it's up to deployment tools to
configure the images to match their needs. Doing a real test for all
distros would be very nice, and a positive addition.

I am curious about how we'd do this though.

I suppose though it might require a new job, which will take far more
time: After doing a building of the necessary images (more than one
project!), we need to deploy them together and run tempest on them
(therefore ensuring proper image building and co-installability).
Or did you mean that you wanted to test each image building separately
by running the minimum smoke tests for each image?
What about reusing a deployment project job that's using loci in an
experimental pipeline?

Not sure to understand what you have written :) 

Regards,
JP