[OpenStack-Infra] An idea to help browse and troubleshoot Ansible Playbook runs

Joshua Hesketh joshua.hesketh at gmail.com
Wed May 11 01:56:10 UTC 2016


This is really neat, nice work David!

I can see this being useful for zuulv3 or even just infra runs as more of
our tooling moves to ansible :-)

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:24 AM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi openstack-infra,
>
> I've been hacking on an idea since last friday and I was thinking it
> could be of interest for you guys as Ansible users, but also
> considering the next generation of Zuul jobs will be powered by
> Ansible.
>
> The project I'm working on is called ARA [1]. It is very much an alpha
> at this point but it is hopefully fleshed out enough at this point for
> you to see where I am going with this.
> I could go on about what the project looks like but I've actually
> built a sane amount of docs [2] and even put up a video of what the
> interface looks like on YouTube [3].
>
> ARA was born out of necessity because the vast majority of RDO CI [4]
> is driven by Ansible, either through projects like TripleO-Quickstart
> [5] or WeIRDO [6].
>
> We are equipped in a fairly similar way than upstream, we have Jenkins
> console logs that are large enough to crash your browser and logs that
> are collected and made browsable like on logs.o.o.
> In a nutshell, we're running CI jobs that install and test OpenStack
> deployments through various installers: TripleO, Packstack,
> Puppet-OpenStack, and soon: Kolla and Chef-OpenStack.
>
> The sad reality is that the RDO community has limited resources and
> ARA aims at making it easier and faster to see what failed, where and
> why to make everyone more efficient.
> Another sad truth is that I am much more a system administrator than a
> developer and as such I am not exactly awesome in either Python or
> UI/UX frontends.
>
> As such, if you are interested in the project, I would certainly
> welcome not only feedback but contributions if you feel you could use
> this.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions !
>
> [1]: https://github.com/dmsimard/ara
> [2]: http://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3jTqgm2YuY
> [4]: https://ci.centos.org/view/rdo/view/promotion-pipeline/
> [5]: https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-quickstart
> [6]: https://github.com/redhat-openstack/weirdo
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>
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