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On 03/30/2016 02:16 PM, Paul Belanger wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 08:30:22PM -0400, John Trowbridge wrote:
>> Hola,
>>
>> With the approval of the tripleo-quickstart spec[1], it is time to
>> actually start doing the work. The first work item is moving it to the
>> openstack git. The spec talks about moving it as is, and this would
>> still be fine.
>>
>> However, there are roles in the tripleo-quickstart tree that are not
>> directly related to the instack-virt-setup replacement aspect that is
>> approved in the spec (image building, deployment). I think these should
>> be split into their own ansible-role-* repos, so that they can be
>> consumed using ansible-galaxy. It would actually even make sense to do
>> that with the libvirt role responsible for setting up the virtual
>> environment. The tripleo-quickstart would then be just an integration
>> layer making consuming these roles for virtual deployments easy.
>>
>> This way if someone wanted to make a different role for say OVB
>> deployments, it would be easy to use the other roles on top of a
>> differently provisioned undercloud.
>>
>> Similarly, if we wanted to adopt ansible to drive tripleo-ci, it would
>> be very easy to only consume the roles that make sense for the tripleo
>> cloud.
>>
>> So the first question is, should we split the roles out of
>> tripleo-quickstart?
>>
>> If so, should we do that before importing it to the openstack git?
>>
>> Also, should the split out roles also be on the openstack git?
>>
> So, we actually have a few ansible roles in OpenStack, mostly imported by
> myself.  The OpenStack ansible teams has a few too.
> 
> I would propose, keep them included in your project for now and maybe start a
> different discussion with all the ansible projects (kolla, ansible-openstack,
> windmill, etc) to see how to best move forward.  I've discussed with openstack
> ansible in the past about moving the roles I have uploaded into their team and
> hope to bring it up again at Austin.
> 

Awesome, thanks for the feedback Paul. I went ahead and started the
import process:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/299932

>> Maybe this all deserves its own spec and we tackle it after completing
>> all of the work for the first spec. I put this on the meeting agenda for
>> today, but we didn't get to it.
>>
>> - trown
>>
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