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On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:55:30AM +0200, Tomas Sedovic wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As outlined in the "Remove merge.py"[1] spec, Peter Belanyi and I have built
> the templates for controller, nova compute, swift and cinder nodes that can
> be deploying directly to Heat (i.e. no merge.py pass is necessary).
> 
> The patches:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/123100/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/123713/
> 
> I'd like to talk about testing and merging them.
> 
> Both Peter and myself have successfully run them through devtest multiple
> times. The Tuskar and TripleO UI folks have managed to hook them up to the
> UI and make things work, too.
> 
> That said, there is a number of limitations which don't warrant making them
> the new default just yet:
> 
> * Juno Heat is required
> * python-heatclient version 0.2.11 is required to talk to Heat
> * There is currently no way in Heat to drop specific nodes from a
> ResourceGroup (say because of a hardware failure) so the "ellision" feature
> from merge.py is not supported yet

FYI, I saw that comment from Clint in 123713, and have been looking
into ways to add this feature to Heat - hopefully will have some code to
post soon.

Steve