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On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 02:28:31PM -0500, Emilien Macchi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at lebouder.net> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > TL/DR:
> >
> > - use Python to do drive TripleO deployment
> > - RPM based
> > - used to be a bit specific, closer to upstream now (RDO)
> > - unit-test
> > - maybe a good candidate to join the TripleO umbrella
> >
> > Following a discussion with Emilien, I would like to introduce
> > python-tripleo-helper.
> >
> > python-tripleo-helper is a Python library that wrapper all the
> > operations required to get a working TripleO. The initial goal was to
> > have a solution to automate and validate the deployment of TripleO in
> > our lab environment.
> >
> > Since the full deployment flow is based on a modern programming
> > language, it's also possible to write more complex operations.
> >
> > For instance, this is a test that I did some month ago:
> > Once the Overcloud was running, we started a "chaos monkey" thread that
> > was randomly disconnecting controllers. We were running tempest in the
> > main thread to collect results. Python makes all these interactions
> > easy.
> >
> > At this point, we support libvirt and the OpenStack as the target
> > environment. We use a couple of hacks to be able to use a regular
> > OpenStack cloud (OSP7). bare-metal is not supported yet even if it's
> > definitely a low-hanging fruit.
> >
> > python-tripleo-helper relies on RPM packages but we are open to
> > contribution to support the other packaging solutions.
> >
> > Till some weeks ago python-tripleo-helper was not really generical. This
> > is the reason why it's still maintained in the redhat-openstack
> > namespace. Nicolas Hicher pushed a couple of patches to be able to use
> > it with RDO and CentOS, I guess we can now consider a move to the
> > TripleO umbrella.
> 
> Have you investigated what could (and / or couldn't if applies) reside
> in tripleoclient / tripleo-common instead of having a new tool?
> 
> If we found out that we need this new tool in TripleO, let's move it
> upstream. Otherwise, I'm in favor of consolidating tools and re-use
> our existing workflow & client tools.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
So, by quickly looking at the code here and the documentation, I see a lot of
duplicated things with existing tools. For example, the
tripleohelper/undercloud.py file appears to be a re-write of ansible and shade.
While other parts, seem to relate to how nodepool works today.

Would you be open to the idea of porting some of this code to use ansible for
remote code execution?  Additionally, I would strong recommend using shade as
your interface for openstack, over nova API directly.

BTW have you looked at linch-pin[1]? I am sure there is some difference, but
python-tripleo-helper looks very similar to linch-pin.  Maybe it is possible to
extend it.

[1] https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linch-pin