[tripleo] Roadmap to simplify TripleO

Ryan Brady rbrady at redhat.com
Sun Jul 28 22:26:05 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 7:49 AM Giulio Fidente <gfidente at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 7/11/19 7:52 PM, Emilien Macchi wrote:
> > Even though TripleO is well known for its maturity, it also has a
> > reputation of being complex when it comes to the number of tools that it
> > uses.
> > Somewhat related to the efforts that James is leading with "Scaling
> > TripleO" [1] [2], I would like to formalize our joint efforts to make
> > TripleO simpler in the future. Some work has been done over the last
> > releases already and yet we have seen net benefits; however we still
> > have challenges ahead of us.
> >
> > - With no UI anymore, do we really need an API?
> > - How can we reduce the number of languages in TripleO? ... and make
> > Python + Ansible the main ones.
> > - How can we reduce our dependencies?
> >
> > I created a document which explains the problems and propose some
> solutions:
> >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vY9rsccgp7NHFXpLtCFTHQm14F15Tij7lhn5X_P14Ys
> > For those who can't or don't want Google Doc, I've put together the
> > notes into etherpad [3] and I'll take care of making sure it's updated
> > at last at the beginning until we sort things out.
> thanks Emilien,
>
> I added a couple of comments in the doc related to two topics which I
> think have been half-baked in past releases and could be reviewed with
> the removal of mistral, specifically:
>
> - TripleO invocation environment files should not be order dependent
> - Performing a stack update should not require all original environment
> files
>
> not sure if people familiar with workflows would be interested in
> helping with these two?
>

I'm happy to help.  Maybe we can sync up in IRC this week to discuss the
environment ordering.  That was a feature we added last year after some
discussion.


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