[kolla] State of ppc64le support

Michael Turek mjturek at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Sep 17 18:43:36 UTC 2019


On 9/16/19 6:07 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> W dniu 16.09.2019 o 18:45, Michael Turek pisze:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> We do use kolla. Let me see if I can shed some light here.
> I have to admit that I wanted to check is there anyone using Kolla on
> ppc64le. Thanks for replies.
>
>>>          CentOS builds lack 'rabbitmq' 3.7.10 (we use external repo) and
>>>          'gnocchi' binary images are not buildable due to lack of some
>>>          packages
>>>          (issue already reported to CentOS by TripleO team).
>>>
>> We should be getting the gnocchi issue fixed. See this thread
>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2019-September/017721.html
> I am in that thread ;)
Indeed you are! Thanks for the reply :)
>
>> The rabbitmq issue is confusing me. The version provided for x86_64
>> seems to be the same one provided for ppc64le, but maybe I'm missing
>> something. If there's a package we need to get published, I can
>> investigate.
> External repo is used and we install "rabbitmq-3.7.10". One 'if ppc64le'
> check and will work by using in-centos-repo version.
Thank you for the patch here!
>
>>>          Ubuntu builds lack MariaDB 10.3 because upstream repo is broken.
>>>          Packages index is provided for 'ppc64le' but no packages so we
>>>          get 404
>>>          errors.
>>>
>> Unfortunately I'm not well versed on the gaps in Ubuntu.
> I am fine with it. No one noticed == no one uses.
>
>> The question I have is, what do you need to maintain support? I can join
>> this week's IRC meeting if that would be helpful.
> For me a knowledge that someone is using is enough to keep it available.
> Would not call it 'maintaining support' as I do builds on ppc64le once
> per cycle (if at all per cycle).
Understood!
>
>> Also, last week mnasiadka reached out to me asking if we might be able
>> to turn on kolla jobs in pkvmci (our third party CI -
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ThirdPartySystems/IBMPowerKVMCI ). I
>> plan to talk to our CI folks this week to see if we have capacity for this.
> Some kind of CI job would be great. Even simple 'centos/source' combo.
Sounds good, I'm talking with our CI folks and will keep kolla updated.
>
> I have two patches adding AArch64 CI but we (Linaro) have to fix our
> OpenStack cluster first. All Ceph nodes use hard drives only and
> probably not configured optimally. As a result we are unable to fit in
> three hours required by Zuul.
>



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