[OpenStack-Infra] [I18n] Regarding Zanata upgrade plan to 3.9.6 with Xenial: Help is needed

Clark Boylan cboylan at sapwetik.org
Mon Dec 5 22:17:48 UTC 2016


I think puppet undid my fixes because
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/406398/ hasn't merged yet. Once that
merges we should be good (I will work on getting that in today).

Clark

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016, at 01:42 PM, Alex Eng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For both URL, I can see wildfly 9, but nothing else. What are we testing
> here again?
> 
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> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Clark Boylan <cboylan at sapwetik.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016, at 03:56 PM, Clark Boylan wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016, at 09:49 AM, Ian Y. Choi wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I18n team currently uses Zanata in translate.openstack.org so
> > frequently
> > > > as an OpenStack translation platform.
> > > > I really appreciate great help from all contributors, especially infra
> > > > team members and Zanata development team
> > > > :
> > > > http://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/
> > specs/migrate_to_zanata.html
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to [1], the current deployed Zanata version is 3.7.3.
> > > > During about one year, there were some discussions for Zanata
> > > > enhancements in many i18n IRC meetings,
> > > > and especially Austin & Barcelona summits [2].
> > > > Zanata development team members kindly listen to such enhancements, and
> > > > they are actively upgrading Zanata
> > > > with fixing bugs and incorporating cool features, which are very
> > helpful
> > > > for translators.
> > > >
> > > > One main obstacle for upgrading Zanata (as far as I know) was that
> > newer
> > > > versions of Zanata requires Java 8,
> > > > but it is not default on Trusty. To upgrade Zanata, upgrading from
> > > > Trusty to Xenial for translate.openstack.org is needed
> > > > since default-jre-headless on Trusty is Java 7 and Xenial is Java 8.
> > > >
> > > > Recently [3] has been merged, so I really hope that i18n team will see
> > > > newer version of Zanata soon :)
> > > >
> > > > I18n team discussed Zanata upgrade with pleia2 and clarkb during i18n
> > > > Barcelona meetup (See number 4 in [4]),
> > > > and the following is my thoughts on appropriate procedures to support
> > > > Zanata latest version
> > > > (Currently 3.9.6 - [5]):
> > > >
> > > > 1. Xenial OS test for translate-dev.openstack.org
> > > > : IMO after tests from infra team, [6] will be changed from "# Node-OS:
> > > > trusty" to "# Node-OS: xenial"
> > > >
> > > > 2. Using openstackid instead of openstackid-dev for translators to test
> > > > translate-dev.o.o
> > > > : I uploaded a patch [7].
> > > >
> > > > 3. Uploading a patch on openstack-infra/puppet-zanata for Zanata 3.9.6
> > > > : [8] is a reference for previous upgrade from Zanata 3.7.2 to 3.7.3
> > > >
> > > > 4. translate-dev.o.o with Zanata 3.9.6 will be ready => I18n
> > translators
> > > > will test it :)
> > > >
> > > > 5. If there will be no error for Zanata 3.9,6, then node upgrade from
> > > > Trusty to Xenial and Zanata upgrade to 3.9.6
> > > > is needed for translate.openstack.org
> > > > : changing [9] line and also proposing a patch similar to [10] will be
> > > > needed later.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Since newer version of Zanata is what translators are expecting a lot
> > :)
> > > > ,
> > > > I would like to kindly ask infra team members for the help of reviewing
> > > > and accomplishing such steps with higher priority.
> > > >
> > > > @clarkb, would the proposed procedures cover all the things regarding
> > > > Zanata upgrade?
> > > > If yes, would you share a sort of scheduled plans?
> > > > IMO Zanata development team will kindly help following schedules if
> > > > there will be some issues which are dependent to Zanata itself.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/240383/
> > > > [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/I18n-Zanata-enhancement
> > > > [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/384239/
> > > > [4] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/barcelona-i18n-meetup
> > > > [5] https://github.com/zanata/zanata-platform/releases
> > > > [6]
> > > > http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/system-config/
> > tree/manifests/site.pp#n1282
> > > > [7] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/393405/
> > > > [8] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/239617/1/manifests/init.pp
> > > > [9]
> > > > http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/system-config/
> > tree/manifests/site.pp#n1257
> > > > [10] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/232313/
> > >
> > > Just a quick status update on this. I have updated puppet things so that
> > > we can deploy translate-dev01.openstack.org on Xenial then CNAME
> > > translate-dev.openstack.org to it. (This is part of how we are trying to
> > > deploy services in the future to avoid being tied to a single instance
> > > in our puppetry). This includes running the noop puppet apply test
> > > against Xenial for these nodes on puppet changes as well.
> > >
> > > All of that has gone relatively well and I just tried to deploy on
> > > Xenial and have run into a few problems. The puppet output [11] shows
> > > that the service isn't installed properly on Ubuntu Xenial. Looking at
> > > the puppet-wildfly module [12] it doesn't appear to support systemd on
> > > debuntu yet. Due to the upcoming thanksgiving holiday I doubt I will get
> > > around to updating and testing that this week, so would be great if
> > > someone else is able to work with the puppet-wildfly upstream to fix
> > > this.
> > >
> > > One other thing that came up is do we need to copy any files from the
> > > old server to the new server? Specifically it looks like portions of
> > > `/home/wildfly/zanata` may need to be preserved. Or is everything
> > > important in the database?
> > >
> > > In any case once the wildfly puppetry is working I think the next step
> > > is to upgrade zanata to 3.9.6, change the openid server, and have the
> > > team test it. Once that looks good its on to the production server.
> > >
> > > [11] http://paste.openstack.org/show/590149/
> > > [12]
> > > https://github.com/biemond/biemond-wildfly/blob/master/
> > manifests/service.pp#L35-L46
> >
> > Time for an update, and this time it is good news. I managed to hack
> > around the systemd issue by adding a puppet exec between installing the
> > init script and starting the service that runs a systemctl daemon-reload
> > [13]. This is necessary to make systemd see the init script allowing it
> > to be used to start the service.
> >
> > With that sorted I have created a new server called
> > translate-dev01.openstack.org and updated DNS to have
> > translate-dev.openstack.org point to it. This server is running on
> > Ubuntu Xenial with Java 8 and using the old version of Zanata (3.7.3).
> > Now would be a good time to test that this works so that we don't have
> > to do the entire upgrade migration in one go when we do production. Once
> > we are happy with Zanata 3.7.3 on Ubuntu Xenial and Java 8 we can
> > upgrade translate-dev.openstack.org to the version of Zanata we want,
> > then test again. And once that is done we can redeploy and upgrade the
> > production server on Xenial as well.
> >
> > Let me know how your testing goes and we can take it from there.
> >
> > [13] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/401363/
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Clark
> >



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