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On 08/22/2018 03:26 PM, Jiri Tomasek wrote:
> Hi,
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>     - Plan and template management in git.
> 
>        This could be an iterative step towards eliminating Swift in the undercloud.
>        Swift seemed like a natural choice at the time because it was an existing
>        OpenStack service.  However, I think git would do a better job at tracking
>        history and comparing changes and is much more lightweight than Swift. We've
>        been managing the config-download directory as a git repo, and I like this
>        direction. For now, we are just putting the whole git repo in Swift, but I
>        wonder if it makes sense to consider eliminating Swift entirely. We need to
>        consider the scale of managing thousands of plans for separate edge
>        deployments.
> 
>        I also think this would be a step towards undercloud simplification.
> 
> 
> +1, we need to identify how much this affects the existing API and overall user 
> experience
> for managing deployment plans. Currentl plan management options we support are:
> - create plan from default files (/usr/share/tht...)
> - create/update plan from local directory
> - create/update plan by providing tarball
> - create/update plan from remote git repository
> 
> Ian has been working on similar efforts towards performance improvements [2], It
> would be good to take this a step further and evaluate possibility to eliminate 
> Swift entirely.
> 
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/581153/

We need to do something about ironic-inspector then: it currently depends on 
swift for storing collected data. Fortunately, there is a spec to fix it, but it 
hasn't been our team's priority. Reviews are welcome: 
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/587698/

Dmitry

> 
> -- Jirka
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