[openstack-dev] [ironic] this week's priorities and subteam reports

Yeleswarapu, Ramamani ramamani.yeleswarapu at intel.com
Mon May 7 23:47:10 UTC 2018


Hi,

We are glad to present this week's priorities and subteam report for Ironic. As usual, this is pulled directly from the Ironic whiteboard[0] and formatted.

This Week's Priorities (as of the weekly ironic meeting)
========================================================

Weekly priorities
-----------------
- Bios interface support
    - BIOS Settings: Add BIOSInterface : https://review.openstack.org/507793 - Needs update
    - BIOS Settings: Add BIOS caching: https://review.openstack.org/512200
    - Add Node BIOS support - REST API: https://review.openstack.org/512579
- Hardware type cleanup
    - https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:api-jobs to unblock api CI test cleanup
    - https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+topic:hw-types - Blocked pending api job cleanup
- Python-ironicclient things
    - Wire in header microversion into client negotiation
        - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/558027/
- Accept a version on set_provision_state
    - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/557850/ 1x+2
- Remaining Rescue patches
    - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/528699/ - Tempest tests with nova (This can land after nova work is done. But, it should be ready to get the nova patch reviewed.) Needs Revision
- Management interface boot_mode change
    - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/526773/ Needs Revision
- Bug Fixes
    - Fixing ironic-inspector dnsmasq filter behavior https://review.openstack.org/#/c/566407/
    - Revert virtualbmc SOL support due to leaking file descriptors https://review.openstack.org/566646
- House Keeping:
    - CoreOS needs to be updated for IPA - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/566094/

Vendor priorities
-----------------
cisco-ucs:
    Patches in works for SDK update, but not posted yet, currently rebuilding third party CI infra after a disaster...
idrac:
    RFE and first several patches for adding UEFI support will be posted by Tuesday, 1/9
ilo:
    None
irmc:
    None - a few works are work in progress
xclarity:
    Fix XClarity parameters discrepancy: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/561405/ Needs Revision

Subproject priorities
---------------------
bifrost:

ironic-inspector (or its client):
    (dtantsur) bug fixes for the PXE filters:
    Blacklist unknown hosts https://review.openstack.org/#/c/566407/
    Correct tear down on SIGTERM https://review.openstack.org/#/c/563335/

networking-baremetal:

networking-generic-switch:

sushy and the redfish driver:
    (dtantsur) do not run functional (API) tests in the CI:
    sushy https://review.openstack.org/#/c/566577/ 1x+2
    sushy-tools https://review.openstack.org/#/c/566578/ 1x+2

Bugs (dtantsur, vdrok, TheJulia)
--------------------------------
- (TheJulia) Ironic has moved to Storyboard. Dtantsur has indicated he will update the tool that generates these stats.
    - initial version (much fewer features): https://github.com/dtantsur/ironic-bug-report
- Stats (new version, diff with 30 Apr 2018):
    - Total bugs: 275 (-8)
    -  of them untriaged: 236 (-20)
    - Total RFEs: 231 (-7)
    -  of them untriaged: 26 (-1)
- HIGH bugs with patches to review:
    - Clean steps are not tested in gate https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1523640: Add manual clean step ironic standalone test https://review.openstack.org/#/c/429770/15
        - Needs to be reproposed to the ironic tempest plugin repository.
    - prepare_instance() is not called for whole disk images with 'agent' deploy interface https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1713916:
        - Fix ``agent`` deploy interface to call ``boot.prepare_instance`` https://review.openstack.org/#/c/499050/ MERGED - Backport to stable/queens proposed

Priorities
==========

Deploy Steps (rloo, mgoddard)
-----------------------------
- spec for deployment steps framework has merged: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/approved/deployment-steps-framework.html
- status as of 7 May 2018:
    - waiting for code from rloo, no timeframe yet

BIOS config framework(zshi, yolanda, mgoddard, hshiina)
-------------------------------------------------------
- status as of 30 April 2018:
    - Spec: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/approved/generic-bios-config.html
    - List of ordered patches:
        - BIOS Settings: Add DB model: https://review.openstack.org/511162 MERGED
        - Add bios_interface db field https://review.openstack.org/528609 MERGED
        - BIOS Settings: Add DB API: https://review.openstack.org/511402 MERGED
        - BIOS Settings: Add RPC object https://review.openstack.org/511714 MERGED
        - Add BIOSInterface to base driver class https://review.openstack.org/507793
        - BIOS Settings: Add BIOS caching: https://review.openstack.org/512200
        - Add Node BIOS support - REST API: https://review.openstack.org/512579

Conductor Location Awareness (jroll, dtantsur)
----------------------------------------------
- story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2001795
- (may 7) spec has good feedback, one issue to resolve, should be able to land this week
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/559420/ needs update

Reference architecture guide (dtantsur, jroll)
----------------------------------------------
- story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2001745
- status as of 7 May 2018:
    - Dublin PTG consensus was to start with small architectural building blocks.
    - list of cases from the Denver PTG - see in the story
    - nothing new this week

Graphical console interface (mkrai, anup-d-navare, TheJulia)
------------------------------------------------------------
- nova blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/ironic-vnc-console
- status as of 7 May 2018:
    - VNC Graphical console spec: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/306074/ needs review

Neutron event processing (vdrok)
--------------------------------
- status as of 7 May 2018:
    - spec at https://review.openstack.org/343684
        - Needs update
    - WIP code at https://review.openstack.org/440778
        - code rewrite done, should be able to test it this week and get on review, spec update coming afterwards

Goals
=====

Make nova flexible with ironic API versions (TheJulia)
------------------------------------------------------
Status as of 7 MAY 2018:
    We've started heading  down the path of wiring in os_ironic_api_verison arguments into pertinent calls
    Python-ironicclient:
        - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/558027/
        - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/557850/ 1x+2
        - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/566029/

Storyboard migration (TheJulia, dtantsur)
-----------------------------------------
Status as of Apr 30th.
    - Done with moving data.
    - dtantsur to rewrite the bug dashboard
        - in progress https://github.com/dtantsur/ironic-bug-report
            - suggestions welcome

Management interface refactoring (etingof, dtantsur)
----------------------------------------------------
- Status as of May 7th:
    - boot mode in ManagementInterface: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/526773/ needs revision (review feedback is being addressed)

Getting clean steps (rloo, TheJulia)
------------------------------------
- Stat as of May 7th 2018
    - spec: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/507910/ - needs review

Project vision (jroll, TheJulia)
--------------------------------
- Status as of April 16:
    - jroll still trying to find time to collect enough thoughts for an email

Stretch Goals
=============
NOTE: These items will be migrated into storyboard and will be removed from the weekly whiteboard once storyboard is in-place

Classic driver removal formerly Classic drivers deprecation (dtantsur)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- spec: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/not-implemented/classic-drivers-future.html
- status as of 26 Mar 2018:
    - switch documentation to hardware types:
        - api-ref examples: TODO
        - update https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic/Drivers: TODO
            - or should we kill it with fire in favour of the docs?
    - ironic-inspector:
        - documentation: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/545285/ MERGED
            - backport: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/554586/
        - enable fake-hardware in devstack: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/550811/ MERGED
        - change the default discovery driver: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/550464/
    - migration of CI to hardware types
        - IPA: https://review.openstack.org/553431 MERGED
        - ironic-lib: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/552537/ MERGED
        - python-ironicclient: https://review.openstack.org/552543 MERGED
        - python-ironic-inspector-client: https://review.openstack.org/552546 +A MERGED
        - virtualbmc: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/555361/ MERGED
    - started an ML thread tagging potentially affected projects: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-March/128438.html
    - bug needs to be fixed: "periodic tasks of non-classic driver Interfaces aren't run" https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2001884 MERGED/FIXED

Redfish OOB inspection (etingof, deray, stendulker)
---------------------------------------------------
- sushy Storage API -- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/563051/1

Before Rocky
============

CI refactoring and missing test coverage
----------------------------------------
- not considered a priority, it's a 'do it always' thing
- Standalone CI tests (vsaienk0)
    - next patch to be reviewed, needed for 3rd party CI: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/429770/
    - localboot with partitioned image patches:
        - Ironic - add localboot partitioned image test: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/502886/ Rebase/update required
        - when previous are merged TODO (vsaienko)
            - Upload tinycore partitioned image to tarbals.openstack.org
            - Switch ironic to use tinyipa partitioned image by default
- Missing test coverage (all)
    - portgroups and attach/detach tempest tests: https://review.openstack.org/382476
    - adoption: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/344975/
        - should probably be changed to use standalone tests
    - root device hints: TODO
    - node take over
    - resource classes integration tests: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/443628/
    - radosgw (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1737957)

Queens High Priorities
======================

Routed network support (sambetts, vsaienk0, bfournie, hjensas)
--------------------------------------------------------------
- status as of 12 Feb 2018:
    - All code patches are merged.
    - One CI patch left, rework devstack baremetal simulation. To be done in Rocky?
        - This is to have actual 'flat' networks in CI.
    - Placement API work to be done in Rocky due to:
    Challenges with integration to Placement due to the way the integration was done in neutron.
    Neutron will create a resource provider for network segments in Placement, then it creates an os-aggregate
    in Nova for the segment, adds nova compute hosts to this aggregate. Ironic nodes cannot be added to host-aggregates.
    I (hjensas) had a short discussion with neutron devs (mlavalle) on the issue:
       http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-neutron/%23openstack-neutron.2018-01-12.log.html#t2018-01-12T17:05:38
    There are patches in Nova to add support for ironic nodes in host-aggregates:
        - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/526753/ allow compute nodes to be associated with host agg
        - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/529135/ (Spec)
    - Patches:
        - CI Patches:
        - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/392959/ Rework Ironic devstack baremetal network simulation
    - RFEs (Rocky)
        - https://bugs.launchpad.net/networking-baremetal/+bug/1749166
            - TheJulia, March 19th 2018: This RFE seems not to contain detail on what is desired to be improved upon, and ultimately just seems like refactoring/improvement work and may not then need an rfe.
        - https://bugs.launchpad.net/networking-baremetal/+bug/1749162
            - TheJulia, March 19th 2018: This RFE makes sense, although I would classify it as a general improvement. If we wish to adhere to strict RFE approval for networking-baremetal work, then I think we should consider this approved since it is minor enhancement to improve operation.

Rescue mode (rloo, stendulker)
------------------------------
- Status as on 12 Feb 2018
    - spec: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/approved/implement-rescue-mode.html
    - code: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bug/1526449+status:open+OR+status:merged
    - ironic side:
        - all code patches have merged except for
            - Rescue mode standalone tests: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/538119/ (failing CI, not ready for reviews)
            - Tempest tests with nova: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/528699/
            - Run the tempest test on the CI: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/528704/
                - succeeded in rescuing: http://logs.openstack.org/04/528704/16/check/ironic-tempest-dsvm-ipa-wholedisk-bios-agent_ipmitool-tinyipa/4b74169/logs/screen-ir-cond.txt.gz#_Feb_02_09_44_12_940007
    - nova side:
        - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/ironic-rescue-mode:
            - approved for Queens but didn't get the ironic code (client) done in time
            - (TheJulia) Nova has indicated that this is deferred until Rocky.
        - To get the nova patch merged, we need:
            - release new python-ironicclient - Done
            - update ironicclient version in upper-constraints (this patch will be posted automatically)
            - update ironicclient version in global-requirement (this patch needs to be posted manually) Posted https://review.openstack.org/554673
        - code patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/416487/ Needs revision
        - CI is needed for nova part to land
            - tiendc is working for CI

Clean up deploy interfaces (vdrok)
----------------------------------
- status as of 5 Feb 2017:
    - patch https://review.openstack.org/524433 needs update and rebase

Zuul v3 jobs in-tree (sambetts, derekh, jlvillal)
-------------------------------------------------
- Next TODO is to convert jobs on master, to proper ansible. NOT a high priority though.
    - (pas-ha) DNM experimental patch with "devstack-tempest" as base job https://review.openstack.org/#/c/520167/

OpenStack Priorities
====================

Python 3.5 compatibility (Nisha, Ankit)
---------------------------------------
- Topic: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:goal-python35+NOT+project:openstack/governance+NOT+project:openstack/releases
    - this include all projects, not only ironic
    - please tag all reviews with topic "goal-python35"
- TODO submit the python3 job for IPA
- for ironic and ironic-inspector job enabled by disabling swift as swift is still lacking py3.5 support.
- anupn to update the python3 job to build tinyipa with python3
    - (anupn): Talked with swift folks and there is a bug upstream opened  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/401397 for py3 support in swift. But this is not on their priority
    - Right now patch pass all gate jobs except agent_- drivers.
- (TheJulia) It seems we might not have py3 compatibility with swift until the T- cycle.

Deploying with Apache and WSGI in CI (pas-ha, vsaienk0)
-------------------------------------------------------
- ironic is mostly finished
    - (pas-ha) needs to be rewritten for uWSGI, patches on review:
        - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/507067
- inspector is TODO and depends on https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bug/1525218
    - delayed as the HA work seems to take a different direction
    - (TheJulia, March 19th, 2018) Perhaps because of the different direction, we should consider ourselves done?

Subprojects
===========

Inspector (dtantsur)
--------------------
- trying to flip dsvm-discovery to use the new dnsmasq pxe filter and failing because of bash :Dhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/525685/6/devstack/plugin.sh@202
- follow-ups being merged/reviewed; working on state consistency enhancements https://review.openstack.org/#/c/510928/ too (HA demo follow-up)

Bifrost (TheJulia)
------------------
- Also seems a recent authentication change in keystoneauth1 has broken processing of the clouds.yaml files, i.e. `openstack` command does not work.
    - TheJulia will try to look at this this week.

Drivers:
--------

Cisco UCS (sambetts) Last updated 2018/02/05
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Cisco CIMC driver CI back up and working on every patch
- Cisco UCSM driver CI in development
- Patches for updating the UCS python SDKs are in the works and should be posted soon
.........

Until next week,
--rama

[0] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/IronicWhiteBoard





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