[openstack-dev] [Fuel] Master node upgrade

Oleg Gelbukh ogelbukh at mirantis.com
Fri Nov 6 14:39:44 UTC 2015


Evgeniy,

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Evgeniy L <eli at mirantis.com> wrote:

> Also we should decide when to run containers
> upgrade + host upgrade? Before or after new CentOS is installed? Probably
> it should be done before we run backup, in order to get the latest scripts
> for
> backup/restore actions.
>

We're working to determine if we need to backup/upgrade containers at all.
My expectation is that we should be OK with just backup of DB, IP addresses
settings from astute.yaml for the master node, and credentials from
configuration files for the services.

--
Best regards,
Oleg Gelbukh


>
> Thanks,
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Vladimir Kozhukalov <
> vkozhukalov at mirantis.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> At the moment I'm working on deprecating Fuel upgrade tarball. Currently,
>> it includes the following:
>>
>> * RPM repository (upstream + mos)
>> * DEB repository (mos)
>> * openstack.yaml
>> * version.yaml
>> * upgrade script itself (+ virtualenv)
>>
>> Apart from upgrading docker containers this upgrade script makes copies
>> of the RPM/DEB repositories and puts them on the master node naming these
>> repository directories depending on what is written in openstack.yaml and
>> version.yaml. My plan was something like:
>>
>> 1) deprecate version.yaml (move all fields from there to various places)
>> 2) deliver openstack.yaml with fuel-openstack-metadata package
>> 3) do not put new repos on the master node (instead we should use online
>> repos or use fuel-createmirror to make local mirrors)
>> 4) deliver fuel-upgrade package (throw away upgrade virtualenv)
>>
>> Then UX was supposed to be roughly like:
>>
>> 1) configure /etc/yum.repos.d/nailgun.repo (add new RPM MOS repo)
>> 2) yum install fuel-upgrade
>> 3) /usr/bin/fuel-upgrade (script was going to become lighter, because
>> there should have not be parts coping RPM/DEB repos)
>>
>> However, it turned out that Fuel 8.0 is going to be run on Centos 7 and
>> it is not enough to just do things which we usually did during upgrades.
>> Now there are two ways to upgrade:
>> 1) to use the official Centos upgrade script for upgrading from 6 to 7
>> 2) to backup the master node, then reinstall it from scratch and then
>> apply backup
>>
>> Upgrade team is trying to understand which way is more appropriate.
>> Regarding to my tarball related activities, I'd say that this package based
>> upgrade approach can be aligned with (1) (fuel-upgrade would use official
>> Centos upgrade script as a first step for upgrade), but it definitely can
>> not be aligned with (2), because it assumes reinstalling the master node
>> from scratch.
>>
>> Right now, I'm finishing the work around deprecating version.yaml and my
>> further steps would be to modify fuel-upgrade script so it does not copy
>> RPM/DEB repos, but those steps make little sense taking into account Centos
>> 7 feature.
>>
>> Colleagues, let's make a decision about how we are going to upgrade the
>> master node ASAP. Probably my tarball related work should be reduced to
>> just throwing tarball away.
>>
>>
>> Vladimir Kozhukalov
>>
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