[rdo-dev] Building and shipping RPMs from Ansible collections

[Tristan Cacqueray]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 14:25 Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:23 PM Sagi Shnaidman <sshnaidm at redhat.com> wrote:
>> We need to test what we ship to customers, so we need to figure that
>>> out first for Ansible, together with the Ansible team.
>>> Has shipping on Red Hat CDN for Collections been defined by the
>>> Ansible organization?
>>>
>>
>> TBH, I don't think Ansible team is a part to consult with. Openstack
>> modules are moved to Openstack repository and Ansible team has no any
>> relation to it now.
>> As well as Podman modules that will be moved soon (hopefully when I find
>> the time) to CRIO namespace (https://github.com/containers)
>> The whole point of Ansible 2.10 is to remove all community modules from
>> core and takeover of responsibilities for them to interested parties.
>> So I think nothing should block us to build/ship the RPMs
>>
>>
> My understanding is that 2.10 sill move some supported modules also to
> collections and they have defined the way to deliver it using both galaxy
> for upstream and automation hub for downstream [1][2]. We could confirm
> with Ansible team if they plan to deliver it *only* via automation-hub or
> also using packages, but I guess we will rely on what they provide for all
> supported content. I think it'd be good to have a clear picture of what
> they will support and how they will deliver it.
>
> For the collections maintained in OPenStack, it may make sense to build
> RPMs for it to keep our rpm-based workflow.
>

Could we investigate and/or design an `ansible-galaxy-rpm` tool to
produce and maintain the spec files?
If that doesn't exist, it could be a very useful thing to have. As an
example, the haskell packages in fedora are produced using a `cabal-rpm`
tool and it seems like a viable solution to use for maintaining the
ansible collection as rpm.

-Tristan

>
> [1] https://www.ansible.com/products/automation-hub
> [2] https://www.ansible.com/blog/getting-started-with-automation-hub
>
>
>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Best regards
>> Sagi Shnaidman
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