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Excerpts from Petr Kovar's message of 2018-05-16 17:39:14 +0200:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the past few years, we've seen several efforts aimed at automating
> procedural documentation, mostly centered around the OpenStack
> installation guide. This idea to automatically produce and verify
> installation steps or similar procedures was mentioned again at the last
> Summit (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/SYD-install-guide-testing).
> 
> It was brought to my attention that the tripleo team has been working on
> automating some of the tripleo deployment procedures, using a Bash script
> with included comment lines to supply some RST-formatted narrative, for
> example:
> 
> https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-quickstart-extras/blob/master/roles/overcloud-prep-images/templates/overcloud-prep-images.sh.j2
> 
> The Bash script can then be converted to RST, e.g.:
> 
> https://thirdparty.logs.rdoproject.org/jenkins-tripleo-quickstart-queens-rdo_trunk-baremetal-dell_fc430_envB-single_nic_vlans-27/docs/build/
> 
> Source Code:
> 
> https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-quickstart-extras/tree/master/roles/collect-logs
> 
> I really liked this approach and while I don't want to sound like selling
> other people's work, I'm wondering if there is still an interest among the
> broader OpenStack community in automating documentation like this?
> 
> Thanks,
> pk
> 

Weren't the folks doing the training-labs or training-guides taking a
similar approach? IIRC, they ended up implementing what amounted to
their own installer for OpenStack, and then ended up with all of the
associated upgrade and testing burden.

I like the idea of trying to use some automation from this, but I wonder
if we'd be better off extracting data from other tools, rather than
building a new one.

Doug