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On 12/22/2015 11:17 AM, Tomas Sedovic wrote:
> On 12/22/2015 04:36 PM, Dougal Matthews wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This topic came up in the 2015-12-15 meeting[1], and again briefly today.
>> After working with the code that came out of the deployment library
>> spec[2] I
>> had some concerns with how we are storing the templates.
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> For alternatives, I see a can think of a couple of options:
>>
>> - Use a database, like we did for Tuskar and most OpenStack API's do.
>> - Invest time in building something on Swift.
>> - Glance was transitioning to be a Artifact store. I don't know the
>> status of
>>    this or if it would meet out needs.
>>
>> Any input, ideas or suggestions would be great!
> 
> This is probably worth mentioning:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/255792/
> 
> If this extension to the API goes through, it may add some weight to the 
> database option.
> 
> At minimum, we'd have to store the validation results somewhere and be 
> able to query them per stage, validation and (optionally) plan. That 
> could be done in Swift or filesystem/git as well, but we'd have to write 
> code to handle indexing and querying and at that point using a DB seems 
> easier.

I didn't actually read this before sending my reply, but +1 because it
goes along with my "use the tool that already does what you want"
theory.  This seems like another strong argument for adding a database
for at least some of the API functionality.

> 
> Tomas Sedovic
> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dougal
>>
>>
>> [1]:
>> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tripleo/2015/tripleo.2015-12-15-14.03.log.html#l-89
>> [2]:
>> https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/tripleo-specs/specs/mitaka/tripleo-overcloud-deployment-library.html
>> [3]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/257481/
>>
>>
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