[Rdo-list] RDO Manager status for Liberty GA

[Yaniv Eylon]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:54 PM, John Trowbridge <trown at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hola rdoers,
>
> The plan is to GA RDO Liberty today (woot!), so I wanted to send out a
> status update for the RDO Manager installer. I would also like to gather
> feedback on how other community participants feel about that status as
> it relates to RDO Manager participating in the GA. That feedback can
> come as replies to this thread, or even better there is a packaging
> meeting on #rdo at 1500 UTC today and we can discuss it further then.
>
> tldr;
> RDO Manager installs with 3 controllers, 1 compute, and 1 ceph on
> virtual hardware have been verified to work with GA bits, however bare
> metal installs have not yet been verified.


we know that trying to install on BM with network isolation fail to
install the overcloud using the latest bits[1].
We were able to deploy the undercloud[2] and build the images[3].

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273680
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273635
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273647

>
> I would like to start with some historical context here, as it seems we
> have picked up quite a few new active community members recently (again
> woot!). When RDO Kilo GA'd, RDO Manager was barely capable of a
> successful end to end demo with a single controller and single compute
> node, and only by using a special delorean server pulling bits from a
> special github organization (rdo-management). We were able to get it
> consistently deploying **virtual** HA w/ ceph in CI by the middle of the
> Liberty upstream cycle. Then, due largely to the fact that there was
> nobody being paid to work full time on RDO Manager, and the people who
> were contributing in more or less "extra" time were getting swamped with
> releasing RHEL OSP 7, CI on the Kilo bits became mostly red with brief
> 24 hour periods where someone would spend a weekend fixing things only
> to have it break again early the following week.
>
> There have been many improvements in the recent weeks to this sad state
> of affairs. Firstly, we have upstreamed almost everything from the
> rdo-management github org directly into openstack projects. Secondly,
> there is a single source for delorean packages for both core openstack
> packages and the tripleo and ironic packages that make up RDO Manager.
> These two things may seem a bit trivial to a newcomer to the project,
> but they are actually fixes for the biggest cause of the RDO Manager
> Kilo CI breaking. I think with those two fixes (plus some work on
> upstream tripleo CI) we have set ourselves up to make steady forward
> progress rather than spending all our time troubleshooting complete
> breakages. (Although this is still openstack so complete breakages will
> still happen from time to time :p)
>
> Another very easy to overlook improvement over where we were at Kilo GA,
> is that we actually have all RDO Manager packages (minus a couple EPEL
> dep stragglers[1]) in the official RDO GA repo. When RDO Kilo GA'd, we
> did not even have everything officially packaged, rather only in our
> special delorean instance.
>
> All this leads to my opinion that RDO Manager should participate in the
> RDO GA. I am unconvinced that bare metal installs can not be made to
> work with some extra documentation or configuration changes. However,
> even if that is not the case, we are in a drastically better place than
> we were at the beginning of the Kilo cycle.
>
> That said, this is a community, and I would like to hear how other
> community participants both from RDO in general and RDO Manager
> specifically feel about this. Ideally, if someone thinks the RDO Manager
> release should be blocked, there should be a BZ with the blocker flag
> proposed so that there is actionable criteria to unblock the release.
>
> Thanks for all your hard work to get to this point, and lets keep it
> rolling.
>
> -trown
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273541
>
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Yaniv.