17:00:29 #startmeeting ironic_qa 17:00:30 Meeting started Wed May 18 17:00:29 2016 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is jlvillal. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:00:31 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 17:00:34 The meeting name has been set to 'ironic_qa' 17:00:37 o/ 17:00:38 o. 17:00:40 Hello everyone 17:00:41 o/ hey 17:00:42 o/ 17:00:46 As always the agenda is at: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Ironic-QA 17:01:16 #topic Announcements 17:01:27 o/ 17:01:39 * thiagop watches more than participate :) 17:01:41 hello 17:01:49 I will save my Grenade related announcements until the Grenade section 17:01:55 Any other announcements from anyone? 17:02:07 No audio bridge this week, as an FYI 17:02:32 Will move on in 10 seconds if no response :) 17:02:33 * devananda notices the time and runs over to the room 17:02:51 #topic Grenade 17:03:04 #info Great work and progress this week on Grenade!!! 17:03:18 CLAP CLAP 17:03:51 #info Big thanks to vsaienko and vdrok for their work. 17:03:53 \o/ 17:04:00 \o/ 17:04:29 #info vsaienko's network patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/317082/ was the big key in unblocking us 17:04:35 o/ 17:04:44 * jlvillal thinks vdrok was involved in that too... 17:05:16 jlvillal: in all the other things except that networking bit :) 17:05:46 #info jlvillal does not understand exactly the patch and why we need to create a second network. Hoping to get a better description from vsaienko. But it fixes things :) 17:05:56 o/ 17:06:02 #info Ironic Grenade whiteboard: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ironic-newton-grenade-whiteboard 17:06:06 So seeing this patch got me thinking, should we be running devstack + ironic with not a real flat neutron network ? 17:06:39 We are working on the list of patches that have got Grenade to pass. Trying to get them merged into various projects. 17:07:07 #info jlvillal has a goal (possibly unrealistic) to have Grenade working by end-of-next week. 17:07:18 sambetts: what exactly do you mean? 17:07:19 sambetts: I'm not sure. 17:07:42 sambetts: I guess I want to get what we have working to be merged. And then we can work on enhancements later. 17:07:53 jlvillal: so with the patches that are 'in flight', we are fairly sure that once they land, grenade will be working for ironic? 17:07:55 sambetts: But I don't understand the question/suggestion 17:08:17 we are sort of "fudging" the networking in devstack right now (going behind neutrons back and connecting into a tenant network), and I was wondering what would happen if we run ironic as intended, by turning off tenant networking and running a flat network 17:08:24 rloo: We have a pretty good feeling about it. vdrok and vsaienko got a green test pass early today in Jenkins. 17:08:36 rloo: I'm running all of them (I hope) locally so will see 17:08:36 would it try to make a new tenant network if we aren't using it 17:09:05 jlvillal, vdrok, vsaienko: awesome! 17:09:14 jlvillal: is there a list of the in-flight patches? The only one I know of that isn't merged is https://review.openstack.org/#/c/317082/ 17:09:24 mjturek1: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ironic-newton-grenade-whiteboard 17:09:35 ahhh thanks 17:09:39 jlvillal: that was false positive - n-cpu failed, and because we were running only baremetal test after the upgrade we didn't notice it, only api tests were run 17:10:03 sambetts: good question. probably worth investigating. 17:10:20 vdrok: Ah and oh :( But I still feel pretty good. A lot of progress has happened this week and we are very very close now. 17:10:27 sambetts: but fudging is good :) 17:10:48 Like the 2nd to the last line of the script is current failure. 17:10:53 sambetts: (for now anyway) 17:11:25 rloo: I'm just wondering if these patches are actually required if we made our devstack deployment work that way :/ 17:11:27 sambetts: No objections from me and exploring that area. I will defer to you and others on networking stuff. 17:11:38 s/me and exploring/me on exploring/ 17:11:56 * jlvillal does not understand enough about neutron and how things should be done :( 17:12:03 jlvillal: These are the settings I have in my devstack config in my CI to make devstack setup a flat network to work with Ironic http://paste.openstack.org/show/497564/ 17:12:30 sambetts: Can you add that to the whiteboard? as an FYI or something? 17:12:35 sure 17:12:54 #info sambetts has a devstack config for a flat network setup for Ironic: http://paste.openstack.org/show/497564/ 17:13:27 So overall I think we are in a good place. Still a fair amount of work to be done. 17:13:52 Have to work on getting the patches merged into various projects and probably responding to review comments on the patches. 17:14:25 sambetts: AIUI, grenade case is special as greanade creates a new net during resource create phase and tries to boot servers in it, in usual devstack run there is no such problem, and it will still be doing so no matter how we setup devstack 17:14:40 Overall I feel quite good about where we are today compared to last week. 17:15:04 Any questions/comments about the Grenade stuff? 17:15:23 We still need to keep pushing forward and get it finished. 17:15:25 vdrok: what I'm thinking though is if you define a flat network, then making a new network doesn't make sense because a flat network normally maps onto the real world, so I wondered if it would leave it alone 17:16:02 sambetts: The resource phase creates this new network and then has nova use it. Outside of the devstack stuff. 17:16:26 sambetts: Look in grenade/projects/*/resources.sh files Especially 50_neutron and 60_nova. 17:16:31 one thing to consider with the grenade network things -- how _should_ this work, when we introduce proper neutron integration and multitenant network support? 17:16:38 isn't grenade aware of what was previously defined though? 17:16:49 it sounds like there are two options right now in how we're implementing grenade support 17:17:08 sambetts: it tries to create things itself to check that upgrade went smoothly and everything newly created is preserved 17:17:11 I'm curious if one of htem will set us up better for the neutron integration and upgrade testing to that 17:18:59 I don't know. At the moment I want to continue on to get grenade working. Making it better in the future is good. But getting it working is 1st priority to me. Then improving it without breaking it. 17:19:01 vdrok: right but we currently don't support multitenant networking so should we be fudging testing it? If our current real world deployment is a flat networks which can't just pop out of thin air should be be testing that case 17:19:59 sambetts: yes, we should not :) but ironic is different from all the other projects in this case I guess 17:20:09 I guess grenade itself should be changed 17:20:38 does grenade not have support for if Q_USE_PROVIDER_NETWORKING=True is turned on? 17:21:26 sambetts: git grep Q_USE_PROVIDER_NETWORKING comes back with nothing in grenade 17:21:50 I think it will do whatever is said in local.conf 17:22:07 whatever is written to local.conf by grenade plugin settings 17:22:15 jlvillal: that's sort of my question. if we get grenade working with a fudged network setup that is not how we actually recommend it to be deployed, how do we go from that to proper multitenant network testing? 17:22:26 I want to continue on with our current course of action to get basic grenade functionality working. 17:22:52 devananda: I worry that we will get derailed for a long time if we change plans. 17:23:12 jlvillal: perhaps I missed it in catching up on this. what is the current course of action w.r.t. network setup? 17:23:30 devananda: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/317082/2/devstack/upgrade/resources.sh 17:23:38 thanks, reading 17:23:46 I am worried about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good 17:24:03 I would like to get something working. Then improve it. iterate. 17:24:19 jlvillal: agreed. I'm not suggesting perfection, but would prefer we also don't do something that prevents upgrades :) 17:24:30 it may be that we just introduce a new test 17:24:49 when multitenant network support lands, we need to know that we can still do flat networks too 17:24:59 ++ 17:25:09 devananda: so we'll be testing upgrade for both flat-flat and flat-multitenant? 17:25:15 That is fine with me. I just want to get to that grenade test up and running. Then we have a base that we can improve upon and make sure it keeps working. 17:25:38 vdrok: flat->flat && multitenant->multitenant 17:25:51 ah, ok 17:26:44 grenade doesn't need to cover flat->multitenant migration in tests ... I'm not even sure we need to support that migration path, or what it would look like for a deployer right now ... 17:27:11 yep, that would be harder 17:27:32 #info Contine to get grenade working. Need to figure out how to test upgrades for flat to flat and multitenant to multitenant. jlvillal would prefer that happen after grenade is up and running. 17:27:49 jlvillal: ++ 17:28:06 Any other questions/comments? 17:28:30 Okay moving on :) 17:28:40 Thanks for all the good feedback :) 17:28:45 #topic Functional testing 17:28:55 #info No progress as focus has been on Grenade work. 17:29:07 Unless someone has been working on it??? 17:29:13 * jlvillal assumes not 17:29:26 #topic 3rd Party Testing (krtaylor) 17:29:38 * jlvillal hands the mic and #info action to krtaylor :) 17:29:45 sure, not much to report, I should update the requirements status table in the driver wiki 17:30:06 but I did push https://review.openstack.org/#/c/314768/ 17:30:06 based on some discussions 17:30:09 around new drivers 17:30:20 krtaylor: don't know if this has already been discussed but at the summit, you had mentioned that you needed help/info for something (i don't remember what). 17:30:25 krtaylor: are you blocked on anything? 17:30:52 rloo, that was for the status table 17:31:08 rloo, but I think I need to send email for correctness 17:31:33 and get responses, then I'll start organizing a doc patch 17:31:39 krtaylor: ok. i think there is some other driver list that OpenStack has, but to get into it, one has to put their driver via stackalytics? 17:32:13 * rloo fuzzy on the details (if that wasn't obvious) 17:32:17 yes, their driver list, that is input for the marketplace 17:32:35 * krtaylor learned that at summit 17:32:46 https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/drivers/ 17:32:47 krtaylor: right. so we probably need to put a list of things-to-do for driver maintainers/marketeers/whatever. 17:33:22 rloo, well, in the spec we decided not to, but hm... 17:33:28 maybe we need to update that 17:33:40 based on the marketplace input 17:33:43 ++ to having a document for what driver-maintainers are expected to do 17:33:50 agreed 17:33:56 right now, it's institutional knowledge at best, which means it reallyshould be written down 17:33:58 krtaylor: 'spec' is not user documentation. 17:34:03 and yea, not a spec 17:34:04 we noticed, dell drac driver is missing 17:34:10 but actually in our docs/ tree 17:34:17 I think this aligns with the conversation we had about what makes a 3rd party CI verified too 17:34:20 yes, all good input for the doc, but not replacement for 17:35:15 rajinir: i could be wrong but i thought someone ping'ed jroll about that driver being missing and he said he'd do 'something' about it (more fuzziness) 17:35:40 that must be chris dearborn 17:36:02 rajinir: possibly and probably :) 17:36:13 yes, i pinged jroll about it, and he said that what was listed in the marketplace was very old and out of date, and that he was trying to get to updating it this week 17:36:15 um, drac is there 17:36:29 rajinir, sambetts among others, I need email on what to change specifically 17:36:31 drac -> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic/Drivers#3rd_Party_CI_required_implementation_status 17:37:00 krtaylor: it's not listed here: https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/drivers/ 17:37:10 ah 17:37:19 ok, yeah, thats the driver log add 17:37:29 Didn't work out at the summit that market place pulls from stackalyics? 17:37:34 Didn't we * 17:37:47 yes, see scrollback :) 17:38:04 ah :) 17:38:07 missed that 17:38:08 and that we need to document that 17:38:16 I agree, I'll get on it 17:39:26 #info krtaylor will get email thread going about wiki driver completeness 17:40:06 #info krtaylor will add information about the need for drivers to add to stackalytics to be listed in marketplace 17:40:50 ok, jlvillal seems like we are winding down on CI 17:40:53 anything else? 17:41:00 Not from me 17:41:24 Okay moving on then. Thanks krtaylor 17:41:31 #topic Open Discussion 17:41:47 Anything anyone wants to discuss? Now is your chance. 17:42:39 I'll give it another minute of silence before ending the meeting... 17:43:26 Thanks everyone for attending. 17:43:31 #endmeeting