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Thanks! We have been slow to update our docs. I did put up a blog post
about these sections of the templates [1], in case folks find that useful.


[1] http://jaormx.github.io/2018/dissecting-tripleo-service-templates-p2/

On 11/2/18 3:39 PM, Dan Prince wrote:
> I pushed a patch[1] to update our containerized deployment
> architecture docs yesterday. There are 2 new fairly useful sections we
> can leverage with TripleO's stepwise deployment. They appear to be
> used somewhat sparingly so I wanted to get the word out.
>
> The first is 'deploy_steps_tasks' which gives you a means to run
> Ansible snippets on each node/role in a stepwise fashion during
> deployment. Previously it was only possible to execute puppet or
> docker commands where as now that we have deploy_steps_tasks we can
> execute ad-hoc ansible in the same manner.
>
> The second is 'external_deploy_tasks' which allows you to use run
> Ansible snippets on the Undercloud during stepwise deployment. This is
> probably most useful for driving an external installer but might also
> help with some complex tasks that need to originate from a single
> Ansible client.
>
> The only downside I see to these approaches is that both appear to be
> implemented with Ansible's default linear strategy. I saw shardy's
> comment here [2] that the :free strategy does not yet apparently work
> with the any_errors_fatal option. Perhaps we can reach out to someone
> in the Ansible community in this regard to improve running these
> things in parallel like TripleO used to work with Heat agents.
>
> This is also how host_prep_tasks is implemented which BTW we should
> now get rid of as a duplicate architectural step since we have
> deploy_steps_tasks anyway.
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/614822/
> [2] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/tree/common/deploy-steps.j2#n554
>
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