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
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 use of the baremetal API in any extensive fashion? If nobo