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On 5/8/19 9:07 AM, Cédric Jeanneret wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/7/19 6:24 PM, Mohammed Naser wrote:
>> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:12 PM Emilien Macchi <emilien at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:44 PM Cédric Jeanneret <cjeanner at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> We're currently working hard in order to provide a nice way to run
>>>> validations within a deploy (aka in-flight validations).
>>>>
>>>> We can already call validations provided by the tripleo-validations
>>>> package[1], it's working just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Now comes the question: "how can we disable the validations?". In order
>>>> to do that, we propose to use a standard tag in the ansible
>>>> roles/playbooks, and to add a "--skip-tags <tag>" when we disable the
>>>> validations via the CLI or configuration.
>>>>
>>>> After a quick check in the tripleoclient code, there apparently is a tag
>>>> named "validation", that can already be skipped from within the client.
>>>>
>>>> So, our questions:
>>>> - would the reuse of "validation" be OK?
>>>> - if not, what tag would be best in order to avoid confusion?
>>>>
>>>> We also have the idea to allow to disable validations per service. For
>>>> this, we propose to introduce the following tag:
>>>> - validation-<service>, like "validation-nova", "validation-neutron" and
>>>> so on
>>>>
>>>> What do you think about those two additions?
>>>
>>>
>>> Such as variables, I think we should prefix all our variables and tags with tripleo_ or something, to differentiate them from any other playbooks our operators could run.
>>> I would rather use "tripleo_validations" and "tripleo_validation_nova" maybe.
> 
> hmm. what-if we open this framework to a wider audience? For instance,
> openshift folks might be interested in some validations (I have Ceph in
> mind), and might find weird or even bad to have "tripleo-something"
> (with underscore or dashes).
> Maybe something more generic?
> "vf(-nova)" ?
> "validation-framework(-nova)" ?
> Or even "opendev-validation(-nova)"
> Since there are also a possibility to ask for a new package name for
> something more generic without the "tripleo" taint..


Can we agree on something? I really like the
"opendev-validation(-service)", even if it's a bit long. For automated
thins, it's still good IMHO.

Would love to get some feedback on that so that we can go forward with
the validations :).

Cheers,

C.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> C.
> 
>>
>> Just chiming in here.. the pattern we like in OSA is using dashes for
>> tags, I think having something like 'tripleo-validations' and
>> 'tripleo-validations-nova' etc
>>
>>> Wdyt?
>>> --
>>> Emilien Macchi
>>
>>
>>
> 

-- 
Cédric Jeanneret
Software Engineer - OpenStack Platform
Red Hat EMEA
https://www.redhat.com/

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