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On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, at 11:44 PM, Jean-Philippe Evrard wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> As you might have seen on the ML, two of the 3 top contenders for the
> Train cycle community got some traction. Let's here talk about the last
> one: The service-side health checks.
> 
> While people were interested in this goal previously, nobody really
> came forward on the pre-work.
> 
> Last week, I met a few of my colleagues to see what we can do together.
> Matt (irc: mattoliverau), Adam (irc: aspiers), and I discussed about
> the different ways to implement this new API, with the help of many in
> #openstack-sdk.
> 
> Long story short, the current framework might be "good enough" for
> extension already, as we could have extra "backends" (basically
> "tests"),  to increase the coverage of this healthcheck endpoint.
> 
> While the immediate next step would be to work on the v2 prototype that
> Graham started (see link [1], anyone is welcome to help there!), the
> next step would be far easier if it was crowd sourced: We need to know
> which service is already using that oslo middleware, which service
> doesn't want to use it, and which service is already ready for
> healtchecks.
> 
> When we'll have a lay of the land, we'll know where the energy will be
> spent in this community goal: Would that be bringing oslo.middleware to
> <insert amount here> services or bringing common "backends" that can be
> used by each service (like DB/MQ/cache checks).
> 
> I would be very happy if you could have a look at this ethercal [2],
> and add/edit your project capabilities there.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> Jean-Philippe Evrard (evrardjp)
> 
> [1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/617924/
> [2]: https://ethercalc.openstack.org/di0mxkiepll8
> 
> 
>
I noticed the ethercalc has a column "Project has paste with healthcheck in pipelines in paste.ini". Is using Paste a requirement for this goal? If so, I think that's a non-starter.

Keystone just removed Paste, but does already have support for healthchecks via oslo.middleware:

https://docs.openstack.org/keystone/latest/admin/health-check-middleware.html

Colleen