[Rdo-list] Puppet glusterers unite

Greetings, For those of you in the To: line, I believe you are all doing something with gluster and puppet at the moment. For anyone else on rdo-list that might be interested, jump in :) Primarily I want to get everyone talking to make sure we don't step on each other's toes. I know James has done some great work with the puppet-gluster module, and Gilles is currently working to switch off of the now-deprecated puppet-openstack-storage module and onto puppet-gluster. Crag, Jiří, and myself are working gluster-related bugs. So let's keep in touch. I'm working to configure libgfapi support on nova compute nodes. In the old gluster module, there was a gluster::client class that just installed the required glusterfs-fuse package. This class is used by astapor in a few places (compute/cinder/glance). However there's no gluster::client class in the new module, so we'll need to remedy that somehow. There is a class, gluster::mount::base, that ensures the packages are installed, and that class is used by each instance of gluster::mount. I'd like to reuse some of this, but I don't think we need all of it on the compute nodes (really we just need to install glusterfs-api). The simple way would be to create a new class glusterfs::apiclient that just installs the package, and include that for the nova compute case. However I'm concerned with the other places we were previously using gluster::client. Can we use the new gluster::mount define to replace all of these instances? Or are we going to need to refactor in those places as well? I'd like to have some idea where this is all going before I start ripping it apart. Thoughts? -John