[openstack-dev] [ironic] PTL nomination
Jim Rollenhagen
jim at jimrollenhagen.com
Thu Sep 15 11:31:13 UTC 2016
Hi friends,
I'd like to be the ironic PTL for another cycle, if you'll have me.
Newton, in my opinion, has been Ironic's best cycle yet. We got a ton of work
done, and made good progress on the work we didn't finish. Some of the
highlights from this cycle include:
* Upgrade testing. We've struggled to make progress until this cycle, when we
really went all-out on getting it done. We also have multinode CI working
and awaiting reviews, which is a great thing to have anyway, and also a huge
first step to testing rolling upgrades.
* Multitenant networking. This has been our biggest feature request for years,
and we've been hacking on it since Liberty. We finally got it done (though
of course, there's more to add on top) in both Ironic and Nova this cycle.
* Speaking of Nova, we've made huge progress there. We now support multiple
nova-compute services running the Ironic driver. We have a nova-compatible
console done in Ironic, with patches ready for Nova to land at the beginning
of Ocata. We've laid the groundwork on both sides to make scheduling better,
and remove the (host, node) tuple that we plagued Nova with for years. And
I believe we've made large strides in how we interact with the Nova team;
things seem much more friendlier, and people are willing to help each other
out more on both sides.
* Fine-grained keystone policy. This is a huge step in helping operators
improve the security of their deployments.
* Our server and client both properly support Keystone v3 now.
* We now have third-party CI for iLO, iRMC, Cisco UCS/CIMC, OneView, PowerKVM,
and DRAC. We're on a path to removing drivers without CI. For context, a year
ago we had no third-party CI. :)
* ironic-python-agent is now the only supported deploy ramdisk, and the APIs
it uses have been promoted to first class APIs.
* Ironic now emits software metrics and has a framework for emitting
notifications for use by Searchlight and other systems.
* Existing systems may now be 'adopted' by ironic to help folks migrate their
existing environments to be managed by ironic.
There's many more things we've done in the 3 releases we shipped this cycle,
but this is a PTL nomination, not Newton release notes, so I'll stop there.
Going forward into Ocata, there's a few major things I'd like to focus on:
* Rolling upgrades. Most of the base IaaS has this or will have it soon. We're
on a good path to getting it done, and I think it's super important for
deployers.
* Continue progress on the networking work. We need to finish portgroups and
get a plan (and hopefully some code) together for vlan-aware baremetal
instances. This will allow an arbitrary number of Neutron networks to be
connected over an arbitrary number of physical NICs, which is incredibly
useful to users.
* Driver composition. This will get rid of our ever-increasing driver matrix
and help users make more sense of all the driver options. It also helps
clean up lots of internal code, so it's important to everyone.
* Boot from volume. This didn't make as much progress as I liked in Newton,
so we should keep working on it and try to at least get all the plumbing
landed, if not the first implementation. Lots of folks are asking for this,
and it's the best path we have to something that looks like 'nova migrate'.
* Above all else, I plan to make it a priority to mentor a few folks that could
be the next PTL. I didn't do a good job of this in Newton (though I think
some people could do the job now). I think it's important to rotate the
leadership, so I hope that the project is in a position where I can step
down after Ocata, and write more code in Pike.
Whether I'm elected PTL or not, I plan to be working upstream on ironic
full-time during Ocata, and look forward to another successful cycle. :)
// jim
(official nomination at https://review.openstack.org/370709)
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