Hello,
We discussed this briefly in the past thread where we discussed maintenance of os-*-agent repos, and also talked about this topic during Heat PTG, but I'd like to formalize the discussion to get a clear agreement.
Heat has been supporting SoftwareDeployment resources to configure software in instances using some agents such as os-collect-config[1]. [1] https://docs.openstack.org/heat/latest/template_guide/software_deployment.ht...
This feature was initially developed to be used by TripleO (IIUC), but TripleO is retired now and we are losing the first motivation to maintain the feature. # Even TripleO replaced most of its usage of softwaredeployment by config-download lately.
Because the heat project team has drunk dramatically recently, we'd like to put more focus on core features. For that aim we are now wondering if we can deprecate and remove this feature, and would like to hear from anyone who has any concerns about this.
Quickly looking through the repos, it seems currently Magnum and Tacker are using SoftwareDeployment, and it'd be nice especially if we can understand their current requirements.
1. Magnum It seems SoftwareDeployment is used by k8s_fedora_atomic_v1 driver but I'm not too sure whether this driver is still supported, because Fedora Atomic was EOLed a while ago, right ?
2. Tacker SoftwareDeployment can be found in only test code in the tacker repo. We have some references kept in heat-translator which look related to TOSCA templates.
Thank you, Takashi Kajinami