[openstack-dev] [tripleo] Validations before upgrades and updates

Emilien Macchi emilien at redhat.com
Fri May 12 13:41:50 UTC 2017


On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Marios Andreou <mandreou at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, after some discussion locally with colleagues about improving the
> upgrades experience, one of the items that came up was pre-upgrade and
> update validations. I took an AI to look at the current status of
> tripleo-validations [0] and posted a simple WIP [1] intended to be run
> before an undercloud update/upgrade and which just checks service status. It
> was pointed out by shardy that for such checks it is better to instead
> continue to use the per-service  manifests where possible like [2] for
> example where we check status before N..O major upgrade. There may still be
> some undercloud specific validations that we can land into the
> tripleo-validations repo (thinking about things like the neutron
> networks/ports, validating the current nova nodes state etc?).
>
> So do folks have any thoughts about this subject - for example the kinds of
> things we should be checking - Steve said he had some reviews in progress
> for collecting the overcloud ansible puppet/docker config into an ansible
> playbook that the operator can invoke for upgrade of the 'manual' nodes (for
> example compute in the N..O workflow) - the point being that we can add more
> per-service ansible validation tasks into the service manifests for
> execution when the play is run by the operator - but I'll let Steve point at
> and talk about those.

It looks like a good idea to me. I don't think our operators want to
update / upgrade OpenStack if the cloud is not in a consistent working
state before.

Here's the things we could test:
- Pacemaker cluster health
- Ceph health
- Database
- APIs healthcheck
- RabbitMQ health

> cheers, marios
>
> [0] https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-validations
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/462918/
> [2]
> https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/blob/stable/ocata/puppet/services/neutron-api.yaml#L197
>
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