[Rdo-list] Follow up from RDO meetup at Summit: Tools consolidation

Hi, Following up from the RDO meeting we had at Kilo Summit in Paris on Wednesday 5 Nov. 2014. Firstly, sorry for this late post, I had a week off after the summit. During the meeting, Hugh Brock opened a discussion about the evolution of the various tools we have for deploying Openstack with RDO, such as Packstack, Quickstack (used by OpenStack Foreman Installer [OFI] and Staypuft). Not to mention Enovance and also maturing TripleO. Meanwhile there is a common denominator for all above tools: the Puppet modules (well this is only partly true for TripleO) This where I've been involved, working lately to provide more automation for testing (CI/CD) around those puppet modules along with Packstack/Quickstack. It turned out that although system management is very important in wide scale production environments, it's not needed for deployment testing. This is possible because the orchestration logic resides in the puppet modules. Moreover, to be able to do so without loosing any functionality is a key factor to speed up tests. Actually Quickstack can be tested without the Foreman or Puppet server, using only a "puppet apply" command on each node. Although in the future, a puppet master might be needed for orchestration, as of today it's not needed and Quickstack HA controllers can be deployed "masterless" and the compute nodes is work in progress. The details are available here: https://github.com/gildub/astapor/blob/Hiera/README%2Bfix1/puppet/modules... Thank you to provide feedback if interested. Regards, Gilles