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oh and in my haste I forgot to say: thank you extremely much to everybody
who's been giving me pointers on IRC and especially to Jay for the blog
walkthrough!


On 13 March 2014 15:30, Luke Gorrie <luke at tail-f.com> wrote:

> Howdy!
>
> I have some tech questions I'd love some pointers on from people who've
> succeeded in setting up CI for Neutron based on the upstream devstack-gate.
>
> Here are the parts where I'm blocked now:
>
> 1. I need to enable an ML2 mech driver. How can I do this? I have been
> trying to create a localrc with a "Q_ML2_PLUGIN_MECHANISM_DRIVERS=..."
> line, but it appears that the KEEP_LOCALRC option in devstack-gate is
> broken (confirmed on #openstack-infra).
>
> 2. How do I streamline which tests are run? I tried added "export
> DEVSTACK_GATE_TEMPEST_REGEX=network" in the Jenkins job configuration but I
> don't see any effect. (word on #openstack-infra is this option is not used
> by them so status unknown.)
>
> 3. How do I have Jenkins copy the log files into a directory on the
> Jenkins master node (that I can serve up with Apache)? This is left as an
> exercise to the reader in the blog tutorial but I would love a cheat, since
> I am getting plenty of exercise already :-).
>
> I also have the meta-question: How can I test changes/fixes to
> devstack-gate? I've attempted many times to modify how scripts work, but I
> don't have a global understanding of the whole openstack-infra setup, and
> somehow my changes always end up being clobbered by a fresh checkout from
> the upstream repo on Github. That's crazy frustrating when it takes 10+
> minutes to fire up a test via Jenkins even when I'm only e.g. trying to add
> an "echo" to a shell script somewhere to see what's in an environment
> variable at a certain point in a script. I'd love a faster edit-compile-run
> loop, especially one that doesn't involve needing to get changed merged
> upstream into the official openstack-infra repo.
>
> I also have an issue that worries me. I once started seeing tempest tests
> failing due to a resource leak where the kernel ran out of loopback mounts
> and that broke tempest. Here is what I saw:
>
>     root at egg-slave:~# losetup -a
>     /dev/loop0: [fc00]:5248399
> (/opt/stack/data/swift/drives/images/swift.img)
>     /dev/loop1: [fc00]:5248409 (/opt/stack/data/stack-volumes-backing-file)
>     /dev/loop2: [fc00]:5248467
> (/opt/stack/data/swift/drives/images/swift.img)
>     /dev/loop3: [fc00]:5248496
> (/opt/stack/data/swift/drives/images/swift.img)
>     /dev/loop4: [fc00]:5248702
> (/opt/stack/data/swift/drives/images/swift.img)
>     /dev/loop5: [fc00]:5248735
> (/opt/stack/data/swift/drives/images/swift.img)
>     /dev/loop6: [fc00]:5248814
> (/opt/stack/data/swift/drives/images/swift.img)
>     /dev/loop7: [fc00]:5248825
> (/opt/stack/data/swift/drives/images/swift.img)
>
> and trying to remove this with 'losetup -d ...' had no effect. I rebooted.
> (I'm on Ubuntu 13.10.)
>
> This kind of spurious error has the potential to cause my CI to start
> casting negative votes (again) and upsetting everybody's workflows, not
> because my tests have actually found a problem but just because it's a
> non-trivial problem for me to keep a devstack-gate continuously
> operational. I hope that doesn't happen, but with this level of
> infrastructure complexity it does feel a little like playing russian
> roulette that the next glitch in
> devstack/devstack-gate/Jenkins/Gerrit/Zuul/Gearman/... will manifest itself
> in the copy that's running on my server. </vent>
>
> Cheers,
> -Luke
>
>
>
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