[openstack-dev] [nova][qa] libvirt + LXC CI - where's the beef?

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 20 12:52:29 UTC 2015



On 8/20/2015 5:33 AM, John Garbutt wrote:
> On 20 August 2015 at 03:08, Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> After spending a few hours on https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1370590
>> I'm annoyed by the fact we don't yet have a CI system for testing libvirt +
>> LXC.
>
> Bit thank you for raising this one.
>
>> At the Juno midcycle in Portland I thought I remember some guy(s) from
>> Rackspace talking about getting a CI job running, whatever happened with
>> that?
>
> Now you mention it, I remember that.
> I haven't heard any news about that, let me poke some people.
>
>> It seems like we should be able to get this going using community infra,
>> right?  Just need some warm bodies to get the parts together and figure out
>> which Tempest tests can't be run with that setup - but we have the
>> hypervisor support matrix to help us out as a starter.
>
> +1
>
>> It also seems unfair to require third party CI for libvirt + parallels
>> (virtuozzo) but we don't have the same requirement for LXC.
>
> The original excuse was that it didn't bring much value, as most of
> the LXC differences were in libvirt.
> But given the recent bugs that have cropped up, that is totally the wrong call.
>
> I think we need to add a log message saying:
> "LXC support is untested, and will be removed during Mitka if we do
> not get a CI in place".
>
> Following the rules here:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix/DeprecationPlan#Specific_Requirements
>
> Does that make sense?

There should at least be a quality warning that it's untested.  I can 
push that up today.

>
> John
>
> PS
> I must to kick off the "feature classification" push, so we can get
> discuss that for real at the summit.
>
> Really I am looking for folks to help with that, help monitor what
> bits of the support matrix are actually tested.
>
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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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