[openstack-dev] [grenade] future direction on partial upgrade support

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Wed Jul 8 17:10:12 UTC 2015


On 07/08/2015 12:35 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 07/08/2015 12:27 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> On 07/08/2015 08:48 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
>>> On 07/06/2015 09:31 PM, Anita Kuno wrote:
>>>> On 07/06/2015 09:02 PM, Armando M. wrote:
>>>>> Thanks Sean, comments inline.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6 July 2015 at 16:58, Sean M. Collins <sean at coreitpro.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd also like to chime in - we've had some discussions on -infra today
>>>>>> about the partial upgrade issue, and collected the following notes on an
>>>>>> etherpad.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/neutron-partial-upgrades
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One of the things identified, was the complexity of the DVR feature in
>>>>>> Neutron, and an attempt to simplify the partial upgrade job by not
>>>>>> enabling the DVR feature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The DVR issue is entirely orthogonal to this, but I am willing to play
>>>>> along.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/networking/2015/networking.2015-07-06-21.00.log.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clark Boylan has proposed a patch to create a new job that runs on
>>>>>> multiple nodes, but does not have DVR enabled, in the hopes that having
>>>>>> less moving parts will allow the multinode grenade work to continue on a
>>>>>> parallel track,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Who is leading the Grenade effort? Is it Clark?
>>>>
>>>> Actually in terms of who stirred the pot, it's me.
>>>>
>>>> There were too many people talking in too small of groups for me to
>>>> stand aside any longer. The grenade job looked like it was going to
>>>> continue to get blocked without everyone understanding all the factors
>>>> so I wanted to have folks have a discussion.
>>>
>>> Was out last week, so still catching up on some of this. Thanks Anita
>>> for stirring the pot.
>>>
>>> I've got a POC approach proposed in the following 3 patches to do
>>> partial testing in multinode via a post-stack.sh script in grenade (a
>>> way to tell grenade to do another thing after the base stack call is done).
>>>
>>> The grenade change - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/199073/
>>>
>>> The devstack-gate change that would put subnode setup into post-stack.sh
>>> - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/199091/
>>>
>>> And the project-config change to make this experimental on devstack-gate
>>> and grenade is here - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/199103/
>>>
>>> The first job I created here was a nova-net one, because I know enough
>>> about the paths, and the partial upgrade story on nova (which has been
>>> voting for a year), to know that all bugs introduced here are probably
>>> my own. But if we can get that working, and the nova partial job moved
>>> over, I think expanding it to arbitrary configs is probably pretty simple.
>>>
>>> Assistance ploughing through on this direction would be appreciated.
>>
>> That all sounds great.  It still seems quite reasonable to merge the
>> neutron job, that works just like the nova one that has been voting for
>> a year, to run as non-voting against neutron-only in the meantime.
> 
> Which patch are you referencing?

The ones listed at the bottom of this etherpad (5.1):
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-nova-network

copied here for convenience:

> rolling upgrades in neutron
> gate job to ensure what's there doesn't break (russellb)
> devstack patches: 
>   https://review.openstack.org/189408
>   https://review.openstack.org/189707
>   https://review.openstack.org/189710
> grenade patches: 
>   https://review.openstack.org/189417
>   https://review.openstack.org/189712
> devstack-gate patches: 
>   https://review.openstack.org/189424
>   https://review.openstack.org/189715
> project-config patches: 
>   https://review.openstack.org/189426
>   https://review.openstack.org/189727

-- 
Russell Bryant



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