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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Kosnik, Lubosz <lubosz.kosnik at intel.com> wrote:
> So did I understand that properly. There will be possibility to create real
> multi-node tests like with 3-4 nodes?

You can already do that, openstack-infra/nodepool proposes some
2-nodes, 3-nodes and even 4-nodes jobs. See jenkins/jobs/projects.yaml
to see which projects are using it.

> Cheers,
> Lubosz
>
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 7:13 PM, joehuang <joehuang at huawei.com> wrote:
>
> So cool! Look forward to multi-node jobs as first class
>
> Best Regards
> Chaoyi Huang (joehuang)
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Monty Taylor [mordred at inaugust.com]
> Sent: 01 March 2017 7:26
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: [openstack-dev] Zuul v3 - What's Coming: What to expect with the
> Zuul v3 Rollout
>
> Hi everybody!
>
> This content can also be found at
> http://inaugust.com/posts/whats-coming-zuulv3.html - but I've pasted it
> in here directly because I know that some folks don't like clicking links.
>
> tl;dr - At last week's OpenStack PTG, the OpenStack Infra team ran the
> first Zuul v3 job, so it's time to start getting everybody ready for
> what's coming
>
> **Don't Panic!** Awesome changes are coming, but you are NOT on the hook
> for rewriting all of your project's gate jobs or anything crazy like
> that. Now grab a seat by the fire, pour yourself a drink while I spin a
> yarn about days gone by and days yet to come.
>
> First, some background
>
> The OpenStack Infra team has been hard at work for quite a while on a
> new version of Zuul (where by 'quite some time' I mean that Jim Blair
> and I had our first Zuul v3 design whiteboarding session in 2014). As
> you might be able to guess given the amount of time, there are some big
> things coming that will have a real and visible impact on the OpenStack
> community and beyond. Since we have a running Zuul v3 now [1], it seemed
> like the time to start getting folks up to speed on what to expect.
>
> There is other deep-dive information on architecture and rationale if
> you're interested[2], but for now we'll focus on what's relevant for end
> users. We're also going to start sending out a bi-weekly "Status of Zuul
> v3" email to the openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org mailing list ... so
> stay tuned!
>
> **Important Note** This post includes some code snippets - but v3 is
> still a work in progress. We know of at least one breaking change that
> is coming to the config format, so please treat this not as a tutorial,
> but as a conceptual overview. Syntax is subject to change.
>
> The Big Ticket Items
>
> While there are a bunch of changes behind the scenes, there are a
> reasonably tractable number of user-facing differences.
>
> * Self-testing In-Repo Job Config
> * Ansible Job Content
> * First-class Multi-node Jobs
> * Improved Job Reuse
> * Support for non-OpenStack Code and Node Systems
> * and Much, Much More
>
> Self-testing In-Repo Job Config
>
> This is probably the biggest deal. There are a lot of OpenStack Devs
> (around 2k in Ocata) and a lot of repositories (1689) There a lot fewer
> folks on the project-config-core team who are the ones who review all of
> the job config changes (please everyone thank Andreas Jaeger next time
> you see him). That's not awesome.
>
> Self-testing in-repo job config is awesome.
>
> Many systems out there these days have an in-repo job config system.
> Travis CI has had it since day one, and Jenkins has recently added
> support for a Jenkinsfile inside of git repos. With Zuul v3, we'll have
> it too.
>
> Once we roll out v3 to everyone, as a supplement to jobs defined in our
> central config repositories, each project will be able to add a
> zuul.yaml file to their own repo:
>
>
> - job:
>    name: my_awesome_job
>    nodes:
>      - name: controller
>        label: centos-7
>
> - project:
>    name: openstack/awesome_project
>    check:
>      jobs:
>        - my_awesome_job
>
> It's a small file, but there is a lot going on, so let's unpack it.
>
> First we define a job to run. It's named my_awesome_job and it needs one
> node. That node will be named controller and will be based on the
> centos-7 base node in nodepool.
>
> In the next section, we say that we want to run that job in the check
> pipeline, which in OpenStack is defined as the jobs that run when
> patchsets are proposed.
>
> And it's also self-testing!
>
> Everyone knows the fun game of writing a patch to the test jobs, getting
> it approved, then hoping it works once it starts running. With Zuul v3
> in-repo jobs, if there is a change to job definitions in a proposed
> patch, that patch will be tested with those changes applied. And since
> it's Zuul, Depends-On footers are honored as well - so iteration on
> getting a test job right becomes just like iterating on any other patch
> or sequence of patches.
>
> Ansible Job Content
>
> The job my_awesome_job isn't very useful if it doesn't define any
> content. That's done in the repo as well, in playbooks/my_awesome_job.yaml:
>
>
> - hosts: controller
>  tasks:
>    - name: Run make tests
>      shell: make distcheck
>
> As previously mentioned, the job content is now defined in Ansible
> rather than using our Jenkins Job Builder tool. This playbook is going
> to run a tasks on a host called controller which you may remember we
> requested in the job definition. On that host, it will run make
> distcheck. Pretty much anything you can do in Ansible, you can do in a
> Zuul job now, and the playbooks should also be re-usable outside of a
> testing context.
>
> First Class Multi-Node Jobs
>
> The previous example was for running a job on a node. What if you want
> to do multi-node?
>
>
> - job:
>    name: my_awesome_job
>    nodes:
>      - name: controller
>        label: ubuntu-xenial
>      - name: compute
>        label: centos-7
>
> - project:
>    name: openstack/awesome_project
>    check:
>      jobs:
>        - my_awesome_job
>
> As you may have surmised, nodes is a list, so you can have more than
> one. Then, since Ansible is naturally mutli-node aware, you use that to
> write the multi-node content:
>
>
> - hosts: controller
>  tasks:
>    - name: Install Keystone
>      shell: pip install {{ zuul.git_root }}/openstack/keystone
> - hosts: compute
>  tasks:
>    - name: Install Nova
>      shell: pip install {{ zuul.git_root }}/openstack/nova
> - hosts: *
>  tasks:
>    - name: Install CloudKitty
>      shell: pip install {{ zuul.git_root }}/openstack/cloudkitty
>
> That will install Keystone on controller, Nova on compute and CloudKitty
> on both.
>
> Improved Job Reuse
>
> In our current system, because of some details about how Jenkins works
> and the fact that our CI system used to be based on Jenkins, we have a
> ton of templated jobs that lead both to magically long job names and a
> bunch of cargo culting of job definitions.
>
> In the new system, a lot of the duplication goes away. So instead of
> having gate-nova-python27 and gate-swift-python27 and
> gate-keystone-python27, there will just be a job called "python27" and
> each of the projects can use it. Similarly, for more complex job content
> like devstack-gate, since Ansible is a fully-fledged system on its own
> that was designed for modularity and re-use, we can compose things into
> roles that take parameters and can be reused without copy/paste.
>
> (ssssh! In fact, the python27 job will almost certainly be a job that
> uses an extremely small playbook that itself uses a role called tox. But
> also, the tox role, the python27 playbook and the python27 job
> definition will all be things we define centrally in a standard library
> of pieces, so as a user of the system you should be able to just choose
> to run "python27" and not worry about it - unless you want to dig in and
> learn more.)
>
> Support for non-OpenStack Code and Node Systems
>
> Zuul was originally written to support the OpenStack project, but since
> then we've grown more people who have interest in running Zuul. Since we
> wrote it the first time to solve our problems of extremely massive
> scale, we didn't put a ton of effort into making it easily consumable
> elsewhere. That hasn't stopped people, and there are tons of Zuul
> installations out there ... but that doesn't mean life is easy for those
> folks. With Zuul v3 we've also been explicitly focused on making it much
> more easily reconsumable.
>
> Part of supporting friends in other communities means embracing support
> of tools that OpenStack does not use. The fine folks at Gooddata wrote a
> set of patches adding support for Github which they have been using for
> a while. We'll be landing those, which should allow us to add jobs to
> the system that check things like "will this pull request to pip break
> devstack". There is also work from the CentOS community via a tool
> called linch-pin that we're looking at incorporating into Nodepool that
> should allow creating build nodes on any system Ansible knows how to
> talk to. Those features are intended to follow quickly on after we get
> OpenStack migrated.
>
> What's Next?
>
> 1) Zuul on Zuul
> 2) Infra Repos
> 3) Job conversion Script
> 4) OpenStack Migration
>
> We currently have a Zuul v3 running against changes to the Zuul repo.
> We're using to iterate on job content and other features. There is a
> change coming to the job definition syntax to allow job dependencies to
> be a graph instead of just a tree which will be fairly invasive, so
> we're keeping the affected surface area small until that's ready.
>
> Once we're happy with how things are running, we'll move the rest of the
> Infra repos over, probably in chunks. Although Infra test jobs are
> typically a bit different than the jobs in the rest of OpenStack, we do
> have enough representative examples that we should be able to work out
> the kinks before we throw things at other folks. (shade and nodepool
> both do integration testing on devstack-gate jobs, for instance)
>
> While we work on Infra migration, we'll be developing a conversion
> script to convert the existing jobs. A good portion of that will be
> fully automatable. For instance, mapping everyone's
> gate-{project}-python27 to a reference to the python27 job is easy for a
> computer to do. However, there's still a ton of snowflake jobs that
> we'll likely wind up just converting the content of as is and then
> iterating on refactoring to be more efficient or improved over time.
>
> Then the Big Day will arrive. When the conversion script is as good as
> we can get it and we're satisfied with stability of the job language,
> security and scalability, there will be a Big Bang cutover of all of the
> rest of OpenStack. If all goes well, most developers should mostly just
> notice that a bunch of job names got shorter and that it's a user named
> Zuul commenting on patches. Folks who have patches to project-config
> in-flight at that time will need to rework patches, but the conversion
> script should hopefully make that a minimal burden.
>
> and Much, Much More
>
> There are far too many new and exciting things in Zuul v3 to cover in a
> single post, and many of the topics (such as Ansible Jobs, or Job
> Inheritance and Reuse) are deep topics we can dive in to over time. The
> long and short of it is that Zuul v3 is coming soon to an OpenStack
> Infra near you, so expect more and more communication about what that
> means over the next few months.
>
> Notes
>
> [1] OpenStack is not running Zuul v3 in production at the moment. We
> have an instance running and only responding to events from the Zuul v3
> repo. As of the time of this writing, OpenStack is still running 2.5 in
> production. Believe me - when we hit production, you'll know it.
>
> [2] Links to deeper information:
> * "There is no Jenkins, only Zuul" post about Zuul 2.5
>   http://amo-probos.org/post/18
> * Jim Blair's Zuul v3 Talk from OpenStack Summit Barcelona
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4EmE1QEvNU
> * Zuul v3 Spec
>   https://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/specs/zuulv3.html
> * Pre-PTG Zuul v3 Conceptual Deep Dive
>
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2017-February/005131.html
>
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