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On 24/07/15 00:56, James Slagle wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Derek Higgins <derekh at redhat.com> wrote:
>> See below
>>
>>
>> On 21/07/15 20:29, Derek Higgins wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>      Something we discussed at the summit was to switch the focus of
>>> tripleo's deployment method to deploy using instack using images built
>>> with tripleo-puppet-elements. Up to now all the instack work has been
>>> done downstream of tripleo as part of rdo. Having parts of our
>>> deployment story outside of upstream gives us problems mainly because it
>>> becomes very difficult to CI what we expect deployers to use while we're
>>> developing the upstream parts.
>>>
>>> Essentially what I'm talking about here is pulling instack-undercloud
>>> upstream along with a few of its dependency projects (instack,
>>> tripleo-common, tuskar-ui-extras etc..) into tripleo and using them in
>>> our CI in place of devtest.
>>>
>>> Getting our CI working with instack is close to working but has taken
>>> longer then I expected because of various complications and distractions
>>> but I hope to have something over the next few days that we can use to
>>> replace devtest in CI, in a lot of ways this will start out by taking a
>>> step backwards but we should finish up in a better place where we will
>>> be developing (and running CI on) what we expect deployers to use.
>>>
>>> Once I have something that works I think it makes sense to drop the jobs
>>> undercloud-precise-nonha and overcloud-precise-nonha, while switching
>>> overcloud-f21-nonha to use instack, this has a few effects that need to
>>> be called out
>>>
>>> 1. We will no longer be running CI on (and as a result not supporting)
>>> most of the the bash based elements
>>> 2. We will no longer be running CI on (and as a result not supporting)
>>> ubuntu
>>>
>>> Should anybody come along in the future interested in either of these
>>> things (and prepared to put the time in) we can pick them back up again.
>>> In fact the move to puppet element based images should mean we can more
>>> easily add in extra distros in the future.
>>>
>>> 3. While we find our feet we should remove all tripleo-ci jobs from non
>>> tripleo projects, once we're confident with it we can explore adding our
>>> jobs back into other projects again
>>>
>>> Nothing has changed yet, I order to check we're all on the same page
>>> this is high level details of how I see things should proceed so shout
>>> now if I got anything wrong or you disagree.
>>
>>
>> Ok, I have a POC that has worked end to end in our CI environment[1], there
>> are a *LOT* of workarounds in there so before we can merge it I need to
>> clean up and remove some of those workarounds and todo that a few things
>> need to move around, below is a list of what has to happen (as best I can
>> tell)
>>
>> 1) Pull in tripleo-heat-template spec changes to master delorean
>> We had two patches in the tripleo-heat-template midstream packaging that
>> havn't made it into the master packaging, these are
>> https://review.gerrithub.io/241056 Package firstboot and extraconfig
>> templates
>> https://review.gerrithub.io/241057 Package environments and newtork
>> directories
>
> I've merged these 2 (the ones against the correct branch, not the ones
> you abandoned :-) )

thanks

>
>>
>> 2) Fixes for instack-undercloud (I didn't push these directly incase it
>> effected people on old versions of puppet modules)
>> https://github.com/rdo-management/instack-undercloud/pull/5
>
> Can you submit this on gerrithub?:
> https://review.gerrithub.io/#/q/project:rdo-management/instack-undercloud

Duh, I don't know why I thought we were using gerrit for the templates 
and not instack*, sorry

https://review.gerrithub.io/241257
https://review.gerrithub.io/241257


>
>>
>> 3) Add packaging for various repositories into openstack-packaging
>> I've pulled the packaging for 5 repositories into
>> https://github.com/openstack-packages
>> https://github.com/openstack-packages/python-ironic-inspector-client
>> https://github.com/openstack-packages/python-rdomanager-oscplugin
>> https://github.com/openstack-packages/tuskar-ui-extras
>> https://github.com/openstack-packages/ironic-discoverd
>> https://github.com/openstack-packages/tripleo-common
>>
>> I havn't imported these into gerrithub (incase following discussion we need
>> to delete them again) but assuming we're in agreement we should pull them
>> into gerrithub)
>>
>> 4) update rdoinfo
>> https://github.com/redhat-openstack/rdoinfo/pull/69
>> If everybody is happy with all above we should merge this, all of the
>> packages needed will now be on the delorean master repository
>>
>> 5) Move DELOREAN_REPO_URL in tripleo-ci to a new delorean repo that includes
>> all of the new packages
>>
>> 6) Take most of the workarounds out of this patch[1] and merge it
>>
>> 7) Reorg the tripleo ci tests (essentially remove all of the bash element
>> based tests).
>
> 3 - 7 sound good to me.
>
>>
>> 8) Pull instack, instack-undercloud, python-rdomanager-oscplugin,
>> triple-common, tuskar-ui-extras and maybe more into the upstream gerrit
>
> +1, note that tripleo-common is already in gerrit/git.openstack.org
> (http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-common)
ack, thanks, I've updated the patch to rdoinfo

>
>>
>>  From here on the way to run the tripleo will be to follow the documentation
>> in instack-undercloud, we should no longer be using devtest, this means
>> we've lost the automation devtest gave us, so we will have to slowly build
>> that up again. The main thing we have gained is that we will now be
>> developing upstream all parts of how we expect deployers to use tripleo.
>
> As far as the automation is concerned, RDO uses khaleesi:
> https://github.com/redhat-openstack/khaleesi
> khaleesi is a set of ansible playbooks around
> instack-undercloud/python-rdomanager-oscplugin. There might be a bit
> too much complexity there for what is effectively ~ lines 204 - 240 in
> your tripleo-ci patch at [1], so I'm not saying we *need* to use it.
> But, I also don't want to re-invent the wheel though where we don't
> need to, so just something to keep in mind.

Yup, how about continuing with the bash script approach for now as its 
the least amount of chage the achieve what we want (the patch will 
probably get shorter when I remove workarounds), then we can look into 
using khaleesi (I guess we can also be point the existing RDO CI at the 
moved repositories)


>
>>
>> - we will still have dependencies on tripleo-incubator we need to remove
>> these (or move things into other repositories), essentially were finished
>> with this process once we're no longer installing the "tripleo" package.
>
> What about moving these things into tripleo-common when the time is
> right? I think the main thing is devtest_testenv.sh, and the dependent
> scripts it calls.
Yup

>
>> - The new CI (as is) is running on Fedora jenkins nodes but building (and
>> deploying) centos images, we also discussed that some people would want to
>> develop on Fedora we will have to create a Fedora job as well (which I'm
>> sure will involve the need for adding Fedora support into instack)
>>
>> Everything in the first 4 steps is ready to go now, once done we can
>> investigate moving DELOREAN_REPO_URL and remove the workarounds from the CI
>> patch.
>
> Thanks for working on this.
no prob

>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Derek
>>
>> [1] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/185151/
>>
>>
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