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On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the feedback so far. This is one of the things I appreciate
> the
> most about this community, Open conversations, honest feedback and will to
> collaborate.
>
> I'm top-posting to announce that we'll have a joint meeting with the Kolla
> team
> on Wednesday at 16:00 UTC. I know it's not an ideal time for many (it's not
> for
> me) but I do want to have a live discussion with the rest of the Kolla team.
>
> Some questions about the meeting:
>
> * How much time can we allocate?
> * Can we prepare an agenda rather than just discussing "TripleO is thinking
> of
>  using Ansible and not kolla-kubernetes"? (I'm happy to come up with such
>  agenda)

It may help to prepare some high level requirements around what we
need out of a solution. For the ansible discussion I started this
etherpad:

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/tripleo-ptg-queens-ansible

How we use Ansible and what we want to use it for, is related to this
discussion around Helm. Although, it's not the exact same discussion,
so if you wanted to start a new etherpad more specific to
tripleo/kubernetes that may be good as well.

One thing I think is important in this discussion is that we should be
thinking about deploying containers on both Kubernetes and
!Kubernetes. That is one of the reasons I like the ansible approach,
in that I think it could address both cases with a common interface
and API. I don't think we should necessarily choose a solution that
requires to deploy on Kubernetes. Because then we are stuck with that
choice. It'd be really nice to just "docker run" sometimes for
dev/test. I don't know if Helm has that abstraction or not, I'm just
trying to capture the requirement.

If you consider the parallel with Heat in this regard, we are
currently "stuck" deploying on OpenStack (undercloud with Heat). We've
had to work an a lot of complimentary features to add the flexibility
to TripleO that are a result of having to use OpenStack (OVB,
split-stack).

That's exactly why we are starting a discussion around using Ansible,
and is one of the fundamental changes that operators have been
requesting in TripleO.

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-- James Slagle
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