[Pulp-dev] Integrating Katello with Pulp3 Recap

Mon Jul 2 18:50:45 UTC 2018

The meetings produced additional use cases, which are sorted into 4
categories: P1, P2, P3, and P4. The definitions are:

P1 - Needed for initial pulp file integration
P2-TYPE - needed for additional type integration
P3 - Needed to simplify integration
P4 - Needed for de-duplication

See the labels at the end of each use case here:
https://projects.theforeman.org/projects/katello/wiki/PulpV3GapAnalysis

# Next Steps
@jsherrill - schedule indexing mtg
P1 into redmine issues - link to Katello wiki
P2s discussed in RPM
P3 & P4 - maybe meet in ~1 month?

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this effort!

Cheers,
Brian

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Some of the Pulp devs involved in the gap analysis put together this
> roundup of the gap problem statements [0]. I've scheduled two calls so that
> we can go over the problem statements to ensure a shared understanding, and
> think of some possible resolutions. My intention for the calls is to
> generate ideas and not decide on them. Final decisions and written recaps
> will be sent to the list for additional input.
>
> June 22nd: noon - 1pm UTC             <---- https://bluejeans.com/
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> [0]: http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/katello/wiki/
> PulpV3GapAnalysis#Core-Problem-Statements
>
> We'll send a round-up of the best options that come out of the call to the
> list for discussion in roughly two weeks. Thank you to everyone who has
> collaborated throughout this process so far!
>
> -Brian
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> # Update
>>
>> The Katello/Pulp gap analysis mini-group met for the final time today.
>> Here is the full gap analysis notes documenting how Katello interacts with
>> Pulp[0]. There are sections labeled GAP which are specific gaps.
>>
>> # Next steps
>>
>> Early next week, the pulp devs involved in the gap analysis will produce
>> a list of problem statements and send that to pulp-dev. After that
>> hopefully all core developers can join one or two calls to solidify our
>> understanding of the problem and discuss options to resolve them.
>>
>> [0]: http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/katello/wiki/PulpV3G
>> apAnalysis
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 6:19 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Today 4 Pulp devs and 2 Katello devs* met, and we produced this page in
>>> the katello wiki:   http://projects.theforeman.org
>>> /projects/katello/wiki/PulpV3GapAnalysis
>>>
>>> It includes a section for each part of the Katello UI that involves Pulp
>>> in any way. Some sections will be large, some small, which makes makes
>>> putting dates on topics challenging. We are going top-to-bottom through
>>> this doc, so you can see the order at least. Next time (thursday) we're
>>> trying to wrap up the 'Products' page of Katello. I'm told it's the largest
>>> of them all. Based on what I've seen so far and the total number of pages
>>> I've seen, we'll have 6 -8 meetings total. With two meetings / week that
>>> would wrap this up around June 7 or 14th.
>>>
>>> If anyone does specifically want to join, let jsherrill (cc'd) know;
>>> it's his call bridge. We are meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12pm - 1pm
>>> EDT (4pm - 5pm UTC). All content updates will post to the wiki. Any input
>>> or questions via the list are welcome also.
>>>
>>> Specifically where we need help from other Pulp contributors is in
>>> answering how Pulp3 could resolve gaps discovered through this process.
>>> These gaps are cases where Pulp3 currently can't support Katello's existing
>>> workflows. We'll bring back a list of these gap areas to this list once we
>>> get a bit further through this process.
>>>
>>> *: jsherrill, paji, daviddavis, ttereshc, dkliban, bmbouter
>>>
>>> -Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Robin Chan <rchan at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1 to the schedule - we have folks who will likely head up different
>>>> efforts and we will want them to participate.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Today @dkliban, @daviddavis, and I met with two Katello developers,
>>>>> @jsherrill and @paji, to talk through some of the integration of Katello
>>>>> and Pulp3. Here is a recap of what we discussed, a goal we identified, and
>>>>> next steps.
>>>>>
>>>>> # What we discussed
>>>>>
>>>>> We went through Katello's UI and learned about:
>>>>>
>>>>> - the various filtering needs of Katello. Pulp is pretty well setup to
>>>>> do this already. I say filtering because the value is being matched,
>>>>> compared, substring matched, etc for a specific field. They need to filter
>>>>> by a group of repositories. For example, show me all RPM packages that are
>>>>> in repositories X, Y, and Z as one filter. Similarly show me all RPM
>>>>> packages that are in repository versions W, Q, T.
>>>>>
>>>>> - full text search. Katello needs to be able to search for a term,
>>>>> full-text style across some set of tables. Pulp does not have this
>>>>> currently. It would be limited to some tables; knowing which tables need to
>>>>> be searched would always be known.
>>>>>
>>>>> - "groups of repos". Katello subscribes a machine to a "set of repos"
>>>>> all of which Katello treats as one thing. This allows the client to stay
>>>>> subscribed to one set of content which makes repo protection easier because
>>>>> you don't have to change certs constantly. Then the content in those repos
>>>>> is what changes. This means when Katello does something it typically
>>>>> involves that same operation for a group of repos.
>>>>>
>>>>> - applicability. There are calculations that Katello has done above
>>>>> and beyond Pulp even in Pulp2. Pulp should be able to run all calculations
>>>>> that Katello needs to avoid them having to reindex the content to run those
>>>>> same calculations.
>>>>>
>>>>> # A goal identified
>>>>>
>>>>> To move work into Pulp such that Katello never needs to reindex Pulp's
>>>>> content.
>>>>>
>>>>> # Next Steps
>>>>>
>>>>> We're going to map out the existing Katello application page-by-page
>>>>> and capture use cases for each. We will do this over a series of meetings,
>>>>> two-per week. At our next meeting we are outlining a schedule of all the
>>>>> pages.
>>>>>
>>>>> For each item we will outline a very-brief technical plan (a few
>>>>> words) of the steps katello will take when interacting with Pulp for each.
>>>>> We will also clearly sort use cases into those that have all the necessary
>>>>> Pulp parts already in place and those that Pulp cannot yet fulfill.
>>>>>
>>>>> Our next report will contain the list of topics with a proposed
>>>>> schedule of the first few and what they will cover. This will likely live
>>>>> on the wiki.
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments, ideas, discussion, concerns, etc are all welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Pulp-dev mailing list
>>>>> Pulp-dev at redhat.com
>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-dev
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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