Open Stack

A few weeks later than I had planned, but here's the other half of the 
field feedback I mentioned in my previous email:

* They very emphatically want in-place upgrades to work when moving from 
non-containerized to containerized.  I think this is already the plan, 
but I told them I'd make sure development was aware of the desire.

* There was also great interest in contributing back some of the custom 
templates that they've had to write to get advanced features working in 
the field.  Here again we recommended that they start with an RFE so 
things could be triaged appropriately.  I'm hoping we can find some 
developer time to help polish and shepherd these things through the 
review process.

* Policy configuration was discussed, and I pointed them at some recent 
work we have done around that: 
https://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/advanced_deployment/api_policies.html 
  I'm not sure it fully addressed their issues, but I suggested they 
take a closer look and provide feedback on any ways it doesn't meet 
their needs.

The specific use case they were looking at right now was adding a 
read-only role.  They did provide me with a repo containing their 
initial work, but unfortunately it's private to Red Hat so I can't share 
it here.

* They wanted to be able to maintain separate role files instead of one 
monolithic roles_data.yaml.  Apparently they have a pre-deploy script 
now that essentially concatenates some individual files to get this 
functionality.  I think this has already been addressed by 
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/445687

* They've also been looking at ways to reorganize the templates in a 
more intuitive fashion.  At first glance the changes seemed reasonable, 
but they were still just defining the layout.  I don't know that they've 
actually tried to use the reorganized templates yet and given the number 
of relative paths in tht I suspect it may be a bigger headache than they 
expect, but I thought it was interesting.  There may at least be 
elements of this work that we can use to make the templates easier to 
understand for deployers.

Thanks.

-Ben