A couple weeks ago during our June 6 Infra team meeting, discussion[1] about the state of our Ansible Puppet Apply spec[2] morphed into concerns over the languishing state of our Beaker-based Puppet module integration test jobs, work needed to prepare for Puppet 4 now that Puppet 3 is EOL upstream[3] for the past 6 months, and the emergence of several possibly competing/conflicting approved and proposed Infra specs:
* Puppet Module Functional Testing[4]
* Puppet 4 Preliminary Testing[5]
* Rename and expand Puppet 4 Preliminary Testing[6]
* Ansiblify control plane[7]
As the discussion evolved, unanswered questions were raised:
1. What are we going to do to restore public reporting?
2. Should we push forward with the changes needed to address
bitrot on the nonvoting Beaker-based integration jobs so we can
start enforcing them on new changes to all our modules?
3. Is the effort involved in upfitting our existing modules to
Puppet 4 worth the effort compared to trying to replace Puppet
with Ansible (a likely contentious debate lurking here) which
might attract more developer/reviewer focus and interest?
The meeting was neither long enough nor an appropriate venue for
deciding these things, so I agreed to start a thread here on the ML
where we might be able to hash out our position on them a little
more effectively and inclusive of the wider community involved.
Everyone with a vested interest is welcome to weigh in, of course.
[1]
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/infra/2017/infra.2017-06-06-19.03.log.html#l-24
[2]
http://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/specs/ansible_puppet_apply.html
[3] https://voxpupuli.org/blog/2016/12/22/putting-down-puppet-3/
[4]
http://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/specs/puppet-module-functional-testing.html
[5]
http://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/specs/puppet_4_prelim_testing.html
[6] https://review.openstack.org/449933
[7] https://review.openstack.org/469983
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Jeremy Stanley
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