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On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:
> 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.

It is the plan, and already has basic CI coverage via
gate-tripleo-ci-centos-7-containers-multinode-upgrades-nv

At this point we need more testing of production-like deployments but
in general this is expected to work.

> * 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

Yes this is already possible, but only via the CLI - that feature
needs porting to tripleo-common so that it can be consumed by
tripleo-ui, which was discussed but I'm not sure on the latest status.

> * 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.

More information on this would be helpful, e.g what specific issues
they are trying to solve and the layout they found to be better and
why?

Thanks,

Steve