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On 03/25/2014 08:25 PM, Joshua Hesketh wrote:
> Hi Miguel,
>
> My recommendation would be to create a draft blueprint or two around the
> larger changes so that you don't spend too much time on something to
> have it rejected. Specifically I'm unsure about how your strategy to
> change configuration options via an API would look, eg how would you
> store and reload the state?
>
> In general though I like the sound of what you're hoping to do. Ideally
> if you were extending the webapp I would like to see it decoupled from
> zuul and have the webapp use some kind of RPC, but that's just my
> thought. Certainly extending the CLI would be great!

We also discussed the idea of having some authenticated functions in the 
web ui - which would mean needing to have an auth-enabled backend api 
server.

SO - I'd totally personally be in favor of the idea of expanding that.

I'd like to request that, if we're going to go down this path, we look 
at doing things like storyboard does - which is our first full-on API + 
UI + auth project in infra. We've got openid/oauth integration there, 
and I'd love to be able to re-use that.

Other people might disagree of course - but I think it would be pretty neat.


> Cheers,
> Josh
>
> Rackspace Australia
>
> On 3/20/14 3:38 AM, Zuniga Vazquez, Miguel wrote:
>> Hey Josh
>>
>> We’re looking at enabling configuration changes (define new pipelines,
>> templates, add projects, etc). We already have some changes added to
>> the scheduler (mostly web hooks that enabled it to send out HTTP API
>> calls when events are added/remove) as well as we created some extra
>> reporters.
>>
>> We saw the RPC framework and even when we would like to expand it, due
>> to some security restrictions we won’t be able to use it. That’s the
>> reason of why we’re looking into extending either the webapp.py or
>> just adding another module to it.
>>
>> In short words what we’re looking to do is:
>>
>> Extend webapp or create a separate module to manage API calls.
>> Connect the API to the scheduler directly or by using the RPC
>> framework locally
>> Extend the cli client
>>
>> Let me know what you guys think.
>>
>> Miguel Zuniga
>> Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
>> eBay Inc. / PayPal
>>
>> From: Joshua Hesketh <joshua.hesketh at RACKSPACE.COM
>> <mailto:joshua.hesketh at RACKSPACE.COM>>
>> Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 4:24 PM
>> To: Miguel Zuniga <mzigavzquez at paypal.com
>> <mailto:mzigavzquez at paypal.com>>, "openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org
>> <mailto:openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org>"
>> <openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org
>> <mailto:openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org>>
>> Subject: RE: Zuul API
>>
>> Hi Miguel,
>>
>> I'm not sure what the long term plans are for creating an API but I
>> think it'd be safe to say if you're willing to work on it any
>> improvements would be welcome!
>>
>> Currently zuul has an RPC framework that could be extended to expose
>> additional functionality. At the moment it only implements a few methods.
>>
>> What kind of functions were you looking to expose over an API?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Josh
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Zuniga Vazquez, Miguel [mzigavzquez at paypal.com
>> <mailto:mzigavzquez at paypal.com>]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:44 AM
>> *To:* openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org
>> <mailto:openstack-infra at lists.openstack.org>
>> *Subject:* [OpenStack-Infra] Zuul API
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I got a few questions, I’ve been through your documentation on how to
>> contribute but before I do all the setup I want to know from the list
>> whether if the things that I’m asking would be considered or if there
>> if there are even on the roadmap.
>>
>> I’m creating a CICD architecture for our dev teams and I was wondering
>> if you:
>>
>>   * Have plans for creating an API for Zuul?
>>   * If not would you be interested if our team contributes the API for it?
>>
>> In our experience Zuul is a powerful but for our non-openstack use
>> cases and to incorporate it to multiple systems/applications the lack
>> of an API makes it difficult to implement.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Miguel Zuniga
>> Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
>> eBay Inc. / PayPal
>
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