[Rdo-list] [foreman-dev] Re: [OFI] Orchestration <-> Wizard Integration

[Jirka Tomášek]

Dne středa, 5. března 2014 17:46:03 UTC+1 Marek Hulán napsal(a):
>
> On Wednesday 05 of March 2014 07:23:41 Jirka Tomášek wrote: 
> > Dne úterý, 4. března 2014 16:10:06 UTC+1 Petr Chalupa napsal(a): 
> > > Hello guys, 
> > > 
> > > I would like to start discussion about how the integration of 
> > > Orchestration and Wizard will look like. 
> > > 
> > > The parts are: 
> > > 1. Collecting the configuration of OS (OpenStack) infrastructure 
> > > 2. Configuring Foreman's HostGroups and other stuff based on that 
> > > configuration 
> > > 3. Orchestrate the provisioning of the whole OS infrastructure in the 
> > > right order using configured HostGroups and Dynflow. 
> > > 
> > > I am thinking that 1. and 2. will be part of the Wizard and 3. will be 
> > > the orchestration's job. 
> > > 
> > > I am assuming that 2. is ±simple function using seed data and 
> > > user-provided configuration that creates configured HostGroups. 
> Meaning 
> > > it does not need any of the workflow engine stuff that Dynflow 
> provides. 
> > > 
> > > If so then developing these in parallel and connecting them later 
> should 
> > > be quite easy. I and Martyn can simulate the OS infrastructure 
> > > provisioning with blank hosts for now. 
> > > 
> > > Petr 
> > 
> > Hey, 
> > 
> > Regarding the wizard, I have been looking around for rails solutions and 
> > Wicked gem [1] seems like something we could use for steps 1 and 2.  As 
> you 
> > said, we basically need form with several steps that gets validated and 
> > submitted. 
> > 
> > I am not sure if Foreman already uses some kind of wizard which we might 
> > use instead of Wicked. Please let me know if there is something like 
> that. 
> > 
> > [1] 
> > 
> http://railscasts.com/episodes/346-wizard-forms-with-wicked?view=asciicast 
> > 
> > Jirka 
>
> Foreman does not use any 3rd party wizard tool. You can see wizard when 
> you 
> create new taxonomy (location or organization) or a good example could be 
> foreman_setup plugin [1]. So we use own helpers for that. 
>
> Wicked gem seems handy and have no extra dependencies so it should be easy 
> to 
> package. Code looks good, my only concern was hardcoded I18n for 
> translations. 
> I'm not sure whether it's problem or not, will look at that tomorrow. 
>
> [1] 
>
> https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_setup/blob/master/app/controllers/foreman_setup/provisioners_controller.rb 
>
> -- 
> Marek 
>

As it seems that the wizard is going to be just a large form without need 
of saving data during the process the process, we can try to split it into 
fieldsets(wizard steps) and hide/show the steps with jquery. I'd like to 
look into that tomorrow.

Jirka
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