Open Stack

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Fox, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov> wrote:
> https://xkcd.com/927/

That's cute, but we aren't really trying to have competing standards.
It's not really about competition between tools.

> I don't think adopting helm as a dependency adds more complexity then writing more new k8s object deployment tooling?

That depends, and will likely end up containing a fair amount of
subjectivity. What we're trying to do is explore choices around
tooling.

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> There are efforts to make it easy to deploy kolla-kubernetes microservice charts using ansible for orchestration in kolla-kubernetes. See:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/473588/
> What kolla-kubernetes brings to the table is a tested/shared base k8s object layer. Orchestration is done by ansible via TripleO, and the solutions already found/debugged to how to deploy OpenStack in containers on Kubernetes can be reused/shared.

That's good, and we'd like to reuse existing code and patterns. I
admit to not being super famliliar with kolla-kubernetes. Are there
reusable components without having to also use Helm?

> See for example:
> https://github.com/tripleo-apb/ansible-role-k8s-keystone/blob/331f405bd3f7ad346d99e964538b5b27447a0ebf/provision-keystone-apb/tasks/main.yaml

Pretty sure that was just a POC/example.

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> I don't see much by way of dealing with fernet token rotation. That was a tricky bit of code to get to work, but kolla-kubernetes has a solution to it. You can get it by: helm install kolla/keystone-fernet-rotate-job.
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> We designed this layer to be shareable so we all can contribute to the commons rather then having every project reimplement their own and have to chase bugs across all the implementations. The deployment projects will be stronger together if we can share as much as possible.
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> Please reconsider. I'd be happy to talk with you more if you want.

Just to frame the conversation with a bit more context, I'm sure there
are many individual features/bugs/special handling that TripleO and
Kolla both do today that the other does not.

TripleO had about a 95% solution for deploying OpenStack when
kolla-ansible did not exist and was started from scratch. But, kolla
made a choice based around tooling, which I contend is perfectly valid
given that we are creating deployment tools. Part of the individual
value in each deployment project is the underlying tooling itself.

I think what TripleO is trying to do here is not immediately jump to a
solution that uses Helm and explore what alternatives exist. Even if
the project chooses not to use Helm I still see room for collaboration
on code beneath the Helm/whatever layer.

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