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On 05/11/2016 01:24 AM, David Moreau Simard 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 !

Hey David,

thank you for this presentation, this looks very promising!
It's definitely very helpful to investigate an ansible run...

Though it seems odd to use another service to display that information..
would it be possible to render the html interface as static files and
figures out a way to index each run in elastic search ?

-Tristan

> 
> [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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