[openstack-dev] [ops] Operator Local Patches

Matt Fischer matt at mattfischer.com
Wed Sep 30 22:47:21 UTC 2015


Is the purge deleted a replacement for nova-manage db archive-deleted? It
hasn't worked for several cycles and so I assume it's abandoned.
On Sep 30, 2015 4:16 PM, "Matt Riedemann" <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 9/29/2015 6:33 PM, Kris G. Lindgren wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> We have some pretty good contributions of local patches on the etherpad.
>>   We are going through right now and trying to group patches that
>> multiple people are carrying and patches that people may not be carrying
>> but solves a problem that they are running into.  If you can take some
>> time and either add your own local patches that you have to the ether
>> pad or add +1's next to the patches that are laid out, it would help us
>> immensely.
>>
>> The etherpad can be found at:
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/operator-local-patches
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________________
>> Kris Lindgren
>> Senior Linux Systems Engineer
>> GoDaddy
>>
>> From: "Kris G. Lindgren"
>> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 4:21 PM
>> To: openstack-operators
>> Subject: Re: Operator Local Patches
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Friendly reminder: If you have local patches and haven't yet done so,
>> please contribute to the etherpad at:
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/operator-local-patches
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________________
>> Kris Lindgren
>> Senior Linux Systems Engineer
>> GoDaddy
>>
>> From: "Kris G. Lindgren"
>> Date: Friday, September 18, 2015 at 4:35 PM
>> To: openstack-operators
>> Cc: Tom Fifield
>> Subject: Operator Local Patches
>>
>> Hello Operators!
>>
>> During the ops meetup in Palo Alto were we talking about sessions for
>> Tokyo. A session that I purposed, that got a bunch of +1's,  was about
>> local patches that operators were carrying.  From my experience this is
>> done to either implement business logic,  fix assumptions in projects
>> that do not apply to your implementation, implement business
>> requirements that are not yet implemented in openstack, or fix scale
>> related bugs.  What I would like to do is get a working group together
>> to do the following:
>>
>> 1.) Document local patches that operators have (even those that are in
>> gerrit right now waiting to be committed upstream)
>> 2.) Figure out commonality in those patches
>> 3.) Either upstream the common fixes to the appropriate projects or
>> figure out if a hook can be added to allow people to run their code at
>> that specific point
>> 4.) ????
>> 5.) Profit
>>
>> To start this off, I have documented every patch, along with a
>> description of what it does and why we did it (where needed), that
>> GoDaddy is running [1].  What I am asking is that the operator community
>> please update the etherpad with the patches that you are running, so
>> that we have a good starting point for discussions in Tokyo and beyond.
>>
>> [1] - https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/operator-local-patches
>> ___________________________________________________________________
>> Kris Lindgren
>> Senior Linux Systems Engineer
>> GoDaddy
>>
>>
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> I saw this originally on the ops list and it's a great idea - cat herding
> the bazillion ops patches and seeing what common things rise to the top
> would be helpful.  Hopefully some of that can then be pushed into the
> projects.
>
> There are a couple of things I could note that are specifically operator
> driven which could use eyes again.
>
> 1. purge deleted instances from nova database:
>
>
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/mitaka/approved/purge-deleted-instances-cmd.html
>
> The spec is approved for mitaka, the code is out for review.  If people
> could test the change out it'd be helpful to vet it's usefulness.
>
> 2. I'm trying to revive a spec that was approved in liberty but the code
> never landed:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/226925/
>
> That's for force resetting quotas for a project/user so that on the next
> pass it gets recalculated. A question came up about making the user
> optional in that command so it's going to require a bit more review before
> we re-approve for mitaka since the design changes slightly.
>
> 3. mgagne was good enough to propose a patch upstream to neutron for a
> script he had out of tree:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/221508/
>
> That's a tool to deleted empty linux bridges.  The neutron linuxbridge
> agent used to remove those automatically but it caused race problems with
> nova so that was removed, but it'd still be good to have a tool to remove
> then as needed.
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Riedemann
>
>
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