[Openstack-operators] [puppet] [desginate] An update on the state of puppet-designate (and designate in RDO)

David Moreau Simard dms at redhat.com
Wed Jul 6 15:51:26 UTC 2016


Thanks Matt, if you don't mind I might add you to some puppet reviews.

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]


On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Matt Fischer <matt at mattfischer.com> wrote:
> We're using Designate but still on Juno. We're running puppet from around
> then, summer of 2015. We'll likely try to upgrade to Mitaka at some point
> but Juno Designate "just works" so it's been low priority. Look forward to
> your efforts here.
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 7:47 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi !
>>
>> tl;dr
>> puppet-designate is going under some significant updates to bring it
>> up to par right now.
>> While I will try to ensure it is well tested and backwards compatible,
>> things *could* break. Would like feedback.
>>
>> I cc'd -operators because I'm interested in knowing if there are any
>> users of puppet-designate right now: which distro and release of
>> OpenStack?
>>
>> I'm a RDO maintainer and I took interest in puppet-designate because
>> we did not have any proper test coverage for designate in RDO
>> packaging until now.
>>
>> The RDO community mostly relies on collaboration with installation and
>> deployment projects such as Puppet OpenStack to test our packaging.
>> We can, in turn, provide some level of guarantee that packages built
>> out of trunk branches (and eventually stable releases) should work.
>> The idea is to make puppet-designate work with RDO, then integrate it
>> in the puppet-openstack-integration CI scenarios and we can leverage
>> that in RDO CI afterwards.
>>
>> Both puppet-designate and designate RDO packaging were unfortunately
>> in quite a sad state after not being maintained very well and a lot of
>> work was required to even get basic tests to pass.
>> The good news is that it didn't work with RDO before and now it does,
>> for newton.
>> Testing coverage has been improved and will be improved even further
>> for both RDO and Ubuntu Cloud Archive.
>>
>> If you'd like to follow the progress of the work, the reviews are
>> tagged with the topic "designate-with-rdo" [1].
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions !
>>
>> [1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:designate-with-rdo
>>
>> David Moreau Simard
>> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>>
>> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>>
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