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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:31 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As the migration of review.rdoproject.org to Zuul v3 draws closer, I'd like
> to open up the discussion around how we want to approach an eventual
> migration to Zuul v3 outside the gate.
> I'd like to take this opportunity to allow ourselves to think outside the
> box, think about how we would like to shape the CI of TripleO from upstream
> to the product and then iterate to reach that goal.
>
> The reason why I mention "outside the gate" is because one of the features
> of Zuul v3 is to dynamically construct its configuration by including
> different repositories.
> For example, the Zuul v3 from review.rdoproject.org can selectively include
> parts of git.openstack.org/openstack-infra/tripleo-ci [1] and it will load
> the configuration found there for jobs, nodesets, projects, etc.
>
> This opens a great deal of opportunities for sharing content or centralizing
> the different playbooks, roles and job parameters in one single repository
> rather than spread across different repositories across the production
> chain.
> If we do things right, this could give us the ability to run the same jobs
> (which can be customized with parameters depending on the environment,
> release, scenario, etc.) from the upstream gate down to
> review.rdoproject.org and the later productization steps.
>
> There's pros and cons to the idea, but this is just an example of what we
> can do with Zuul v3.
>
> Another example of an interesting thought from Sagi is to boot virtual
> machines directly with pre-built images instead of installing the
> undercloud/overcloud every time.
> Something else to think about is how can we leverage all the Ansible things
> from TripleO Quickstart in Zuul v3 natively.
>
> There's of course constraints about what we can and can't do in the upstream
> gate... but let's avoid prematurely blocking ourselves and try to think
> about what we want to do ideally and figure out if, and how, we can do it.
> Whether it's about the things that we would like to do, can't do, or the
> things that don't work, I'm sure the feedback and outcome of this could
> prove useful to improve Zuul.
>
> How would everyone like to proceed ? Should we start an etherpad ? Do some
> "design dession" meetings ?
> I'm willing to help get the ball rolling and spearhead the effort but this
> is a community effort :)

It's good you started this thread, I had a discussion with Sam Doran
(on PTO this week AFIK) who is highly invested in Ansible and
motivated to help to have proper playbooks calling
tripleo-quickstart-extras roles.
One of the ideas that we discussed was to remove toci_gate_* scripts
and write Ansible playbooks that call the right modules with the right
variables.

+1 for an etherpad and start planning this work.

> Thanks !
>
> [1]: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/tripleo-ci/tree/zuul.d
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]



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