Hi Ade,

To the best of my knowledge the closest place where we do similar
sequence of actions (post deployment build and append environment
files to the deploy command and re-run overcloud deploy on top of an
already deployed overcloud) is tripleo-upgrade. As we discussed on IRC
I was reluctant to adding these kind of tests to tripleo-upgrade since
it was initially created to cover only the minor update and major
upgrades use cases. Nevertheless, thinking more about your use case I
realized that configuration changes tests could fit quite well in
tripleo-upgrade for several reasons:

 - we already have a mechanism[1] in place for attaching extra
environment files to the deploy command
 - we already have tests that can be run during the stack update which
applies the config changes; this could be useful to validate that
configuration changes do not break the data plane(e.g to validate that
a neutron config change doesn't not leave instances without networking
during the stack update)
 - we can easily segregate the config changes plays into their own
directory as we do with update/upgrade[2] and add the reusable ones in
the common directory
 - upgrades might benefit from the config changes tests by running
them in a pre/post minor update/major upgrade step and catch potential
parameters changes between releases

I'd like to hear what others think about this and see if there could
be a better place where to host these kind of tests but personally I'm
ok with adding them to tripleo-upgrade.

Best regards,
Marius

[1] 
http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-upgrade/tree/tasks/upgrade/step_upgrade.yml
[2] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-upgrade/tree/tasks

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Ade Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I starting looking at how we implement password changes in an
> existing deployment, and found that there were issues.  This made me
> wonder whether we needed a test job to confirm that password changes
> (and other config changes) are in fact executed properly.
>
> As far as I understand it, the way to do password changes is to -
> 1) Create a yaml file containing the parameters to be changed and
>    their new values
> 2) call openstack overcloud deploy and append -e new_params.yaml
>
> Note that the above steps can really describe the testing of setting
> any config changes (not just passwords).
>
> Of course, if we do change passwords, we'll want to validate that the
> config files have changed, the keystone/dbusers have been modified, the
> mistral plan has been updated, services are still running etc.
>
> After talking with many folks, it seems there is no clear consensus
> where code to do the above tasks should live.  Should it be in tripleo-
> upgrades, or in tripleo-validations or in a separate repo?
>
> Is there anyone already doing something similar?
>
> If we end up creating a role to do this, ideally it should be
> deployment tool agnostic - usable by both infrared or quickstart or
> others.
>
> Whats the best way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ade
>
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