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Greetings,

This is just an update that since then, I've submitted ARA to be moved
under the /openstack umbrella [1] and I've just cut a new release
which includes a feature for generating a static version of the web
interface [2].

Thanks for your interest :)

[1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:create-ara-project
[2]: http://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#generating-a-static-version-of-the-web-application


David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]


On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 3:31 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi again openstack-infra,
>
> We've worked quite a bit on ARA since I first told you guys about it here.
> We're pretty much out of PoC and Alpha territory by now and I've made
> a formal public announcement about it [1].
>
> Following up on the questions from the thread now that we've progressed a bit:
> - Usability with things like ElasticSearch:
>   The ARA CLI client uses Cliff and thus has a very similar look and
> feel as python-openstackclient.
>   Cliff provides several output formats out of the box such as YAML or JSON.
>   You could use the client to output the information you want in JSON
> format and then send that off to ElasticSearch with already-indexed
> fields.
>
> - Static file generation
>   This is very high on the list of things to do.
>   We will make it possible for the ARA CLI client to generate a static
> version of the interface for a single playbook run.
>   So far we're aiming more towards a html "tree" rather than just a
> single page to keep the same browsing experience.
>
> I see a great opportunity for ARA to be used by the OpenStack community.
> The project officially needs a home for code reviews and I think
> openstack or openstack-infra with the usual gerrit workflow would be a
> great fit if you believe it makes sense.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Please let me know !
>
> Thanks,
>
> [1]: https://dmsimard.com/2016/05/21/ara-an-idea-to-store-browse-and-troubleshoot-ansible-playbook-runs/
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:24 PM, 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]