[openstack-dev] [TripleO] Aodh upgrades - Request backport exception for stable/liberty

Pradeep Kilambi prad at redhat.com
Tue May 17 21:06:55 UTC 2016


On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 1:31 PM, James Slagle <james.slagle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Pradeep Kilambi <prad at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Steve. I was under the impression we cannot run puppet at this
> > stage. Hence my suggestion to run bash or some script here, but if we
> > can find a way to easily wire the existing aodh puppet manifests into
> > the upgrade process and get aodh up and running then even better, we
> > dont have to duplicate what puppet gives us already and reuse that.
>
> We could add any SoftwareDeployment resource(s) to the templates that
> trigger either scripts or puppet.
>
> >
> >
> >>> At most, it seems we'd have to surround the puppet apply with some
> >>> pacemaker commands to possibly set maintenance mode and migrate
> >>> constraints.
> >>>
> >>> The puppet manifest itself would just be the includes and classes for
> aodh.
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >>> One complication might be that the aodh packages from Mitaka might
> >>> pull in new deps that required updating other OpenStack services,
> >>> which we wouldn't yet want to do. That is probably worth confirming
> >>> though.
> >>
> >> It seems like we should at least investigate this approach before going
> >> ahead with the backport proposed - I'll -2 the backports pending further
> >> discussion and investigation into this alternate approach.
> >>
> >
> > Makes sense to me. I understand the hesitation behind backports. I'm
> > happy to work with jistr and slagle to see if this is a viable
> > alaternative. If we can get this working without too much effort, i'm
> > all for dumping the backports and going with this.
>
> Using a liberty overcloud-full image, I enabled the mitaka repos and
> tried to install aodh:
> http://paste.openstack.org/show/497395/
>
> It looks like it will cleanly pull in just aodh packages, and there
> aren't any transitive dependencies thatt require updating any other
> OpenStack services.
>
> That means that we ought to be able to take a liberty cloud and update
> it to use aodh from mitaka. That could be step 1 of the upgrade. The
> operator could pause there for as long as they wanted, and then
> continue on with the rest of the upgrade of the other services to
> Mitaka. It may even be possible to implement them as separate stack
> updates.
>
> Does that sound like it could work? Would we have to update some parts
> of Ceilometer as well, or does Liberty Ceilometer and Mitaka Aodh work
> together nicely?
>


To install Aodh along side ceilometer in Liberty, we have to explicitly
disable or remove ceilometer-alarms services before aodh is installed.
Otherwise both the evaluators will step on each other for alarms. But other
than that, they should work.


~ Prad




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