Hello Community!
TLDR; puppetlabs-apache broke us so many times, I'm proposing a way to get rid of it, using plain ansible. Some work is needed, but it's "easy", and will allow us to keep a hand on the whole configuration code.
Longer version:
You probably saw mails about issues with puppetlabs-apache releases breaking the CI (and, by extension, TripleO). Over and over and over again.
Well, good news: this may be just a bad memory - though it will require some work :).
I've been working on a couple of ansible roles[1] in order to just get the needed pieces we really need in TripleO: file generation.
Once we get those 2 roles in, we'll be able to switch, service by service, away from puppet management for apache/httpd. There's already an on-going example[2] with ironic.
Of course, as you can see, there's some work to do, even on the puppet side. But it's not really complicated, and can be done quickly.
I'll do my best to move things, but be prepared to get pings from time to time if help is needed. I can't do all by myself, can I? ;)
And if anyone wants to jump in and work on the transition, please do, and don't hesitate to reach to me, either by mail, or on #tripleo - I go there as Tengu.
Cheers,
C.
[1] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/tripleo-ansible/+/853481 [2] https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:standalone%252Fapache