Can we extend this to rdo-list ? Sounds relevant to the community.

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

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On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Wesley Hayutin <whayutin@redhat.com> wrote:
> Arie,
> This looks good.
> Who is going to maintain the delorean ci job?

> Have you reached out to Derek Higgins about writing a replacement for the
> current delorean ci?

>
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Steve Linabery <slinaber@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 05:49:05PM +0200, Arie Bregman wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > Not sure if you all familiar with Delorean project[1]. Quick
>> > introduction
>> > (CI related) for those who are not:
>> >
>> > Delorean is an upstream project that builds and maintains yum
>> > repositories.
>> > It builds repository every time patch submitted to one of the upstream
>> > openstack-packages projects.
>> > The delorean job is located here:
>> > https://prod-rdojenkins.rhcloud.com/job/delorean-ci
>> >
>> > How the job works at the moment:
>> > It runs delorean directly on the slave and if the build process
>> > succeeded,
>> > it votes with +1
>> >
>> > What I suggest:
>> > - Move delorean installation and run to khaleesi by creating 'delorean'
>> > role
>> > - Extend the job to run tests using the rpms delorean built
>> >
>> > Why:
>> > - Main reason: It's important for developers to get immediate feedback
>> > on
>> > whether the new packages are good or not. simply run delorean and see if
>> > build is ok, is not enough. We need to extend the current job.
>> >
>> > - Users can use khaleesi to test specs they wrote. This is actually
>> > pretty
>> > amazing. users write specs and run khaleesi. khaleesi then handles
>> > everything - it building the rpms using delorean and run the tests.
>> >
>> > - We can use delorean to replace our current way to build rpms and
>> > creating
>> > repos. delorean doing it in a smart way, using docker and by that it
>> > creates rpms for several distributions in isolated environment.
>>
>> Delorean no longer uses docker.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/openstack-packages/delorean/commit/66571fce45a007bcf49fd54ad7db622fd737874f

>>
>> >
>> > - Khaleesi awesomeness will increase
>> >
>> > There is also no need to add/maintain settings in khaleesi for that.
>> > delorean properties (version, url, etc) will be provided by extra-vars
>> > (unless you are in favor of maintaining general settings for delorean in
>> > khaleesi)
>> >
>> > The new job work flow:
>> > 1. Run delorean on slave and save rpms from delorean build process.
>> > 2. Run provision playbook
>> > 3. Copy delorean rpms to provisioned nodes and create repo for them on
>> > each
>> > node
>> > 4. run installer playbooks (installer will use delorean rpms)
>> > 5. Run Tests =D
>> > 6. Vote +1/-1 according to build process + tests.
>> >
>> > step 3 can be replaced. Since delorean creates repository, we can simply
>> > reference each node to the new repository on the slave.
>> >
>> > Would love to hear your opinion on that.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Arie
>> >
>> > P.S
>> > started to work on that: https://review.gerrithub.io/#/c/251464
>> >
>> > [1] https://github.com/openstack-packages/delorean
>>
>