Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-11 Thread James Penick
We manage a fairly large nova-baremetal installation at Yahoo. And while we've developed tools to hit the nova-bm API, we're planning to move to ironic without any support for the nova BM API. Definitely no interest in the proxy API from our end.  Sometimes you just need to let a thing die.  -Ja

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Ben Nemec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/2014 02:26 PM, Dan Smith wrote: >> 1) Is this tested anywhere? There are no unit tests in the patch >> and it's not clear to me that there would be any Tempest coverage >> of this code path. Providing this and having it break a couple >> of

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Sean Dague
On 09/10/2014 03:14 PM, Ben Nemec wrote: > On 09/10/2014 01:13 PM, Dan Smith wrote: >>> As far as I understand it, though, that's a patch for a >>> read-only mode. It seems bizzare, and possibly dangerous, to >>> proxy read commands, but not write commands. It gives the >>> impression that everyt

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Dan Smith
> 1) Is this tested anywhere? There are no unit tests in the patch and > it's not clear to me that there would be any Tempest coverage of this > code path. Providing this and having it break a couple of months down > the line seems worse than not providing it at all. This is obviously > fixable

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Ben Nemec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/2014 01:13 PM, Dan Smith wrote: >> As far as I understand it, though, that's a patch for a >> read-only mode. It seems bizzare, and possibly dangerous, to >> proxy read commands, but not write commands. It gives the >> impression that everyt

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Dan Smith
> As far as I understand it, though, that's a patch for a read-only > mode. It seems bizzare, and possibly dangerous, to proxy read > commands, but not write commands. It gives the impression that > everything's fine until it's not fine (because someone tried to use > an existing script to do a c

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Sean Dague
nd > then having them discover later that something broke because they tried to > create a node. > > Best Regards, > Solly Ross > > - Original Message - >> From: "Sean Dague" >> To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> Sent: Wednesday, Sep

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Solly Ross
r that something broke because they tried to create a node. Best Regards, Solly Ross - Original Message - > From: "Sean Dague" > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:33:05 AM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Chris K
I thought it might be helpful to show a sample of the output from the proxied commands: Please find the example here: http://paste.openstack.org/show/Em861wMwFvrFlsWkugfX Chris Krelle NobodyCam On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 09/09/2014 11:22 PM, Russell Bryant wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-10 Thread Sean Dague
On 09/09/2014 11:22 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: > On 09/09/2014 05:24 PM, Michael Still wrote: >> Hi. >> >> One of the last things blocking Ironic from graduating is deciding >> whether or not we need a Nova API proxy for the old baremetal >> extension to new fangled Ironic API. The TC has asked that

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-09 Thread Russell Bryant
On 09/09/2014 05:24 PM, Michael Still wrote: > Hi. > > One of the last things blocking Ironic from graduating is deciding > whether or not we need a Nova API proxy for the old baremetal > extension to new fangled Ironic API. The TC has asked that we discuss > whether we think this functionality is

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-09 Thread Ben Nemec
On 09/09/2014 04:24 PM, Michael Still wrote: > Hi. > > One of the last things blocking Ironic from graduating is deciding > whether or not we need a Nova API proxy for the old baremetal > extension to new fangled Ironic API. The TC has asked that we discuss > whether we think this functionality is

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-09 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Solly Ross wrote: > With my admittedly limited knowledge of the whole Ironic process, the > question seems to me to be: "If we don't implement a proxy, which people are > going to have a serious problem?" > > Do we have an data on which users/operators are making

Re: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-09 Thread Solly Ross
t anyway. Best Regards, Solly Ross - Original Message - > From: "Michael Still" > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" > Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 5:24:11 PM > Subject: [openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic > > Hi. > >

[openstack-dev] On an API proxy from baremetal to ironic

2014-09-09 Thread Michael Still
Hi. One of the last things blocking Ironic from graduating is deciding whether or not we need a Nova API proxy for the old baremetal extension to new fangled Ironic API. The TC has asked that we discuss whether we think this functionality is actually necessary. It should be noted that we're _not_