[openstack-dev] [rally][no-admin] Finally Rally can be run without admin user

Lance Bragstad lbragstad at gmail.com
Wed Jun 14 15:59:47 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Morgan Fainberg <morgan.fainberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Boris Pavlovic <boris at pavlovic.me> wrote:
> > Hi stackers,
> >
> > Intro
> >
> > Initially Rally was targeted for developers which means running it from
> > admin was OK.
> > Admin was basically used to simplify preparing environment for testing:
> > create and setup users/tenants, networks, quotas and other resources that
> > requires admin role.
> > As well it was used to cleanup all resources after test was executed.
> >
> > Problem
> >
> > More and more operators were running Rally against their production
> > environments, and they were not happy with the thing that they should
> > provide admin, they would rather prepare environment by hand and provide
> > already existing users than allow Rally to mess up with admin rights =)
> >
> > Solution
> >
> > After years of refactoring we changed almost everything;) and we managed
> to
> > keep Rally as simple as it was and support Operators and Developers
> needs.
> >
> > Now Rally supports 3 different modes:
> >
> > admin mode -> Rally manages users that are used for testing
> > admin + existing users mode -> Rally uses existing users for testing (if
> no
> > user context)
> > [new one] existing users mode -> Rally uses existing users for testing
> >
> > In every mode input task will look the same, however in case of only
> > existing users mode you won't be able to use plugins that requires admin
> > role.
> >
> > This patch finishes works: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/465495/
> >
> > Thanks to everybody that was involved in this huge effort!
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Boris Pavlovic
> >
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> Good work, and fantastic news. This will make rally a more interesting
> tool to use against real-world deployments.
>
> Congrats on a job well done.
>

I completely agree here. Nice work!


> --Morgan
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