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Hey folks,

+1 to the direction we're going with this. Like Emilien said, the skies the
limit when using a flexible automation framework like Ansible. We're
definitely going to need Molecule tests for the role and unit/integration
tests for the podman_container module itself. I left a comment in the
podman_container
feature request <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46362> in
Ansible to let the broader community know that we're working towards
stabilizing that module. Hopefully that will get more contributors to help
us fast track upstreaming it. It doesn't seem like Paunch is really used
outside of TripleO so having it in Ansible, which has wider adoption, seems
really ideal. As for backports, I think it's fair to say that Paunch for
the most part "just works." When it does break it's a pain to fix. Which is
even more reason to move away from it.

Sincerely,

Luke Short, RHCE
Software Engineer, OpenStack Deployment Framework
Red Hat, Inc.


On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:13 AM Emilien Macchi <emilien at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:55 AM James Slagle <james.slagle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Nice work! I like the approach with the new ansible role.
>>
>> I do think there will be a balance between what makes sense to keep in
>> a python module vs an ansible task. If/then branching logic and
>> conditional tasks based on previous results is of course all possible
>> with ansible tasks, but it starts to become complex and difficult to
>> manage. A higher level language (python) is much better at that.
>> Personally, I prefer to view ansible as just an execution engine and
>> would look to keep the actual application and business logic in proper
>> reusable/testable code modules (python). Finding that right balance is
>> likely something we can figure out in review feedback, ad-hoc
>> discussions, etc.
>>
>
> Ack & agreed on my side.
>
> An idea for a future improvement I would like to see as we move in
>> this direction is to switch from reading the container startup configs
>> from a single file per step
>> (/var/lib/tripleo-config/container-startup-config-step_{{ step
>> }}.json), to using a directory per step instead. It would look
>> something like:
>>
>> /var/lib/tripleo-config/container-startup-config/step1
>>
>> /var/lib/tripleo-config/container-startup-config/step1/keystone-init-tasks.json
>>
>> /var/lib/tripleo-config/container-startup-config/step1/pacemaker-init-tasks.json
>> etc.
>>
>> That way each service template can be converted to a proper ansible
>> role in tripleo-ansible that just drops its config into the right
>> directory on the managed node. When the tripleo-container-manage role
>> is then executed, it will operate on those files. This would also make
>> it much more clear what container caused a failure, since we could log
>> the results individually instead of just getting back the union of all
>> logs per step. I think you're patches already address this to some
>> degree since you are looping over the contents of the single file.
>>
>
> This is an excellent idea. One of the feedback I've got from the Upgrade
> folks is the need to be able to easily upgrade one service, and the current
> structure doesn't easily allow it. Your proposal is I think exactly
> addressing it; and indeed it'll help when migrating container config into
> their individual roles in tripleo-ansible.
> I'll add that to the backlog.
>
> The other feedback I would offer is perhaps continue to think about
>> keeping the container implementation pluggable in some fashion. Right
>> now you have a tasks/podman.yaml. What might it look like if we wanted
>> to have a tasks/kubernetes.yaml in the future, and how would that be
>> enabled?
>>
>
> Yes, that's what I had in mind when starting the role. The podman.yaml is
> for Podman logic.
> We will probably have docker.yaml if we want to support Docker for FFU
> from Queens to Train.
> And we can easily add a playbook "kubernetes.yaml" which will read the
> container config data, generate k8s YAML and then consume it via
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/k8s_module.html . Really
> there is no limit if we can make it really pluggable.
>
>
> Thanks for the input and the great feedback,
> --
> Emilien Macchi
>
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