[Rdo-list] RDO Manager status for Liberty GA

Omri Hochman ohochman at redhat.com
Wed Oct 21 15:16:03 UTC 2015



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pedro Sousa" <pgsousa at gmail.com>
> To: "John Trowbridge" <trown at redhat.com>
> Cc: "rdo-list" <rdo-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] RDO Manager status for Liberty GA
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I've managed to install on baremetal following this howto:
> https://remote-lab.net/rdo-manager-ha-openstack-deployment/ (based on
> liberty)

Hey Pedro, 

Are you using:  yum install -y  http://rdoproject.org/repos/openstack-liberty/rdo-release-liberty.rpm  
to get the latest RDO GA bits ? 

We're failing in overcloud deployment on BM with several issues. 

Thanks,
Omri.

> 
> I have 3 Controllers + 1 Compute (HA and Network Isolation). However I'm
> having some issues logging on (maybe some keystone issue) and some issue
> with openvswitch that I'm trying to address with Marius Cornea help.
> 
> Regards,
> Pedro Sousa
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:54 AM, 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.
> 
> 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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