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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Sofer Athlan-Guyot <sathlang at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have added neutron people as they may help to find a solution.
>
> After banging my head against the wall for a whole afternoon I
> discovered a serious bug in puppet neutron module.
>
> I not going to repeat here the detail of the bug report[1].  Basically:
>  - neutron_port
>  - neutron_subnet
>  - neutron_router
>  - neutron_network
>
> may break idempotency randomly and won't work at all when clifftablib is
> removed from the package dependency of python-openstackclient
> (Mitaka[2])
>
> So the problem is that neutron cli json output on liberty (at least, and
> maybe before) is not consistent and may come from cliff or clifftablib.
> I didn't test it but the same may apply to openstack cli. As we don't
> use the openstack cli json output it's not a issue (for puppet modules)
>
> The available solution I can see are:
>  1. go back to parsing csv, shell output (revert [3])
>  2. find a way to leverage openstacklib parsing for neutron as well
>  3. keep json and parse the right output (cliff) and find a way to make
>     sure that it is always used by stevedore
>  4. ?
>
> Last I checked, which was quite a while ago, openstackclient didn't
support everything we were using from the neutron client. I would like to
reevaluate that and go with option 2 if we can. Otherwise option 1 seems
reasonable.


> From my point of view 3) is not a option, but other may disagree.
>
> The problem is tricky and the fact that the CI cannot detect this is
> trickier[4].
>
> So before Mitaka, the json parsing should go.  I would love to see an
> interface that all puppet modules would use (solution 2).  The current
> openstacklib parses openstack client well enough.  The neutron command
> is not that different and I think there is space for code reuse.  This
> would be a long term solution.  It would bring the advantage of having
> only one interface to change if it was decided to use the API directly
> for instance[5]
>
> In the meantime, a quick solution to this bug must be found.
>
> Looking forward to your comments.
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/puppet-neutron/+bug/1530163
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-neutronclient/+bug/1529914
> [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/238156/
> [4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/262223/
> [5]
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-October/076439.html
> --
> Sofer Athlan-Guyot
>
> Colleen
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