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On 8/2/18 1:34 AM, Ian Main wrote:
> 
> Hey folks!
> 
> So I've been working on some patches to speed up plan operations in 
> TripleO.  This was originally driven by the UI needing to be able to 
> perform a 'plan upload' in something less than several minutes. :)
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/581153/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/581141/
> 
> I have a functioning set of patches, and it actually cuts over 2 minutes 
> off the overcloud deployment time.
> 
> Without patch:
> + openstack overcloud plan create --templates 
> /home/stack/tripleo-heat-templates/ overcloud
> Creating Swift container to store the plan
> Creating plan from template files in: /home/stack/tripleo-heat-templates/
> Plan created.
> real    3m3.415s
> 
> With patch:
> + openstack overcloud plan create --templates 
> /home/stack/tripleo-heat-templates/ overcloud
> Creating Swift container to store the plan
> Creating plan from template files in: /home/stack/tripleo-heat-templates/
> Plan created.
> real    0m44.694s
> 
> This is on VMs.  On real hardware it now takes something like 15-20 
> seconds to do the plan upload which is much more manageable from the UI 
> standpoint.
> 
> Some things about what this patch does:
> 
> - It makes use of process-templates.py (written for the undercloud) to 
> process the jinjafied templates.  This reduces replication with the 
> existing version in the code base and is very fast as it's all done on 
> local disk.

Just wanted to say Special Big Thank You for doing that code 
consolidation work!

> - It stores the bulk of the templates as a tarball in swift.  Any 
> individual files in swift take precedence over the contents of the 
> tarball so it should be backwards compatible.  This is a great speed up 
> as we're not accessing a lot of individual files in swift.
> 
> There's still some work to do; cleaning up and fixing the unit tests, 
> testing upgrades etc.  I just wanted to get some feedback on the general 
> idea and hopefully some reviews and/or help - especially with the unit 
> test stuff.
> 
> Thanks everyone!
> 
>      Ian
> 
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Best regards,
Bogdan Dobrelya,
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