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Hi all,

Lately I've been spending a lot more time digging into TripleO and Tuskar,
and started looking for a way to spin up simple tests (and in particular,
play with Tuskar UI/API) without necessarily having the overhead of setting
up a full devtest environment every time.

So I decided to hack on a patch which automates starting tuskar-api via
devstack, here's a quick HOWTO if you want to try it:

1. Pull devstack patch
    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/131218/

2. Add t-api to localrc
    "enable_service t-api"
    Here's my example (Ironic enabled) localrc:
    https://gist.github.com/hardys/2cfd2892ce0e63fa8155

3. Add tuskar roles
    git clone git://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates.git
    cd tripleo-heat-templates·
    tuskar-load-roles --config-file /etc/tuskar/tuskar.conf -r compute.yaml -r controller.yaml

3. clone+install tuskar-ui
    git clone git://github.com/openstack/tuskar-ui.git
    cd tuskar-ui
    python setup.py install

4. Copy tuskar-ui horizon config
    cp ~/tuskar-ui/_50_tuskar.py.example
/opt/stack/horizon/openstack_dashboard/local/enabled/_50_tuskar.py
    sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

This provides a basically functional tuskar API and UI, which is enough for
basic testing of tuskar, tuskarclient and (to some extent) the UI.

I hit some issues, please let me know if new bugs are needed for these, or
if you can suggest solutions:

1. UI Infrastructure->Overview page always says No controller/compute node,
   even though both roles are loaded

2. UI Service configuration has no content at all

3. UI Deployment Roles page says "Metering service is not enabled.", but
   ceilometer is installed and active

4. UI: If, Ironic isn't available for any reason, you get a big error from the
   "Nodes" page of the UI

5. API: You can't create or modify roles via the API, or even view the
content of the role after creating it

6. After running tuskar-load-roles, the overcloud_roles table is always
empty (related to 1?)

I'd be interested in peoples thoughts about this general approach - ideally
I'd like to end up at a point where you could launch an overcloud template
directly via heat on devstack (with ironic enabled and the appropriate
controller/compute images in glance obviously) - has anyone else tried
that?

Steve