[Openstack-operators] Proposal for an 'Operations' project

matt matt at nycresistor.com
Mon Nov 10 18:24:47 UTC 2014


My fear with the github is that people will just donate code in a fire and
forget fashion... this will generate a poorly maintained repo in which
finding useful actively maintained contributions may become difficult.

So my concerns lie in ensuring that anyone who contributes to this effort
is committing to supporting their code for some length of time, and that
there are maintainers committing to cleaning out the repos and being good
code janitors.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

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> My impression of the operations teams is that there is not yet consensus
> on the toolchains. This would make it difficult to establish a single
> project since the selection has many criteria outside of OpenStack (e.g.
> in-house skills, current deployments).
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> I think the github repo (https://github.com/osops) is a great move to
> allow easy access to how others are doing it but it would be unrealistic to
> expect everyone to adopt a single toolchain given the investment in other
> areas.
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> Unless everyone adopts Puppet, ElasticSearch, Hadoop and Flume like CERN J
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> The deployment program is very different and it is not clear to me that
> TripleO is the universal solution either but that is another question…
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> Tim
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> *From:* Craig Tracey [mailto:craig at craigtracey.com]
> *Sent:* 10 November 2014 18:41
> *To:* Michael Chapman
> *Cc:* openstack-operators
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] Proposal for an 'Operations' project
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> Agree with Mike 1000%.
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> This is something we should have done ages ago, and being agnostic is the
> correct way to get traction on this stuff. We'll be happy to help.
>
> Thanks for championing this!
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> On Nov 10, 2014 11:37 AM, "Michael Chapman" <woppin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Here's the etherpad from Friday:
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-summit-ops-opsprogram
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> Jonothan: Your example of including log filters in oslo is extremely
> confusing. I am talking about something like this:
> https://github.com/OpenStratus/openstack-logstash/blob/master/agent.conf
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> Which really doesn't belong in oslo. There's similar configuration for
> equivalents such as splunk or fluentd, all doing roughly the same thing
> depending on the operator's tool of choice.
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> Same idea for nagios/sensu/zabbix/$other_tool
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> Jeremy: OpenStack is so large that setting up packaging, monitoring and
> log aggregation for it isn't something that can be done easily, yet without
> configuring any monitoring or log aggregation it is extremely difficult to
> diagnose and fix issues in a running cloud, and without a packaging
> pipeline fixes can't be deployed easily.
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> As to whether to include these things in the deployment program, I would
> say that I think the Deployment program is covering a 'delivery mechanism',
> whereas the things I am talking about are 'things to be delivered'. Clint
> and I had a quick chat on Friday during the TripleO session and I think we
> are thinking along very similar lines.
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> I want to have a bunch of repos with things that deployment tools
> (including Fuel and TripleO and anything else that gets cooked up) can
> easily consume to improve the operator experience.
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> I want a standard packaging system so that sites doing CI/CD today can all
> build packages from their own repos and collaborate on the specs/process in
> an upstream location, and I want it to be easily clone-able locally.
>
> I want it all under a single program so that in the future we can
> potentially reward and acknowledge people doing the work as contributors to
> OpenStack.
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