Re: [tripleo] Deprecating paunch CLI? [EXT]

-- ** Dave Holland ** Systems Support -- Informatics Systems Group ** ** 01223 496923 ** Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK ** On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 06:00:30PM -0400, Emilien Macchi wrote: > With our long-term goal to simplify TripleO and focus on what people > actually deploy and how they operate their clouds, it appears that > the Paunch CLI hasn't been a critical piece in our project and I > propose that we deprecate it; create an Ansible module to call Paunch > as a library only. > I've been playing with it a little today: > [1]https://review.opendev.org/#/c/682093/ [review.opendev.org] > [2]https://review.opendev.org/#/c/682094/ [review.opendev.org] > Here is how you would call paunch: > - name: Start containers for step {{ step }} > paunch: > config: > "/var/lib/tripleo-config/hashed-container-startup-config-step_{{ step > }}.json" > config_id: "tripleo_step{{ step }}" > action: apply > container_cli: "{{ container_cli }}" > managed_by: "tripleo-{{ tripleo_role_name }}" > A few benefits: > - Deployment tasks in THT would call the new module instead of a > shell command > - More Pythonic and clean for Ansible, to interact with the actual > task during the run > - Removing some code in Paunch, make it easier to maintain for us > For now, the Ansible module only covers "paunch apply", we will > probably cover "delete" and "cleanup" eventually. > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, > -- > Emilien Macchi > > References > > 1. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__review.opendev.org_-23_... > 2. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__review.opendev.org_-23_... -- The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.