na...@techtrueup.com writes:

> if we can bring contrail devstack installer under gerrit, adding a CI
> job for devstack sanity can ensure a sane "always available" devstack
> functional environment

FYI, there is already a devstack plugin [1] that works well.

[1]  https://github.com/zioc/contrail-devstack-plugin

> Best Regards,
> Nabeel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
>  "CARVER, PAUL" <pc2...@att.com>
>
> To:
> "Nabeel Asim" <na...@techtrueup.com>, "Abhijit Gadgil"
> <gabhi...@iitbombay.org>, "dev@lists.opencontrail.org"
> <dev@lists.opencontrail.org>
> Cc:
>
> Sent:
> Mon, 7 Aug 2017 16:24:29 +0000
> Subject:
> RE: [opencontrail-dev] OpenContrail Quick Start
>
>       It does appear that commits have dropped off to zero since the end of
> April
> https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-installer/graphs/contributors [1] 
>
>         
>
>       It’s also a bit odd that this repo is on GitHub only rather than
> being a mirror of Gerrit. I’m not clear on what the reasoning is
> behind some repos being only on GitHub while other repos have the
> authoritative source on Gerrit and an automated mirror from Gerrit to
> GitHub.
>
>           
>
>       FROM: Nabeel Asim [mailto:na...@techtrueup.com] 
> SENT: Monday, August 07, 2017 11:56
> TO: CARVER, PAUL <pc2...@att.com>; 'Abhijit Gadgil'
> <gabhi...@iitbombay.org>; dev@lists.opencontrail.org
> SUBJECT: RE: [opencontrail-dev] OpenContrail Quick Start
>
>         
>
>       We have struggled for quite some time getting a basic devstack +
> open-contrail All-in-One installation functional as well.
>
>        
>
>       In absence of "getting started" documentation, it definitely was not
> easy. There is a contrail-installer repo but seems to be little
> outdated.
>
>       With no support for MITAKA and earlier releases of devstack, it makes
> things more difficult.
>
>        
>
>       We tried pushing a fix to the repo but there was didn’t get
> response on the pull request
>
>        
>
>       https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-installer/pull/147 [2]
>
>        
>
>       Eventually, we wrote a couple of scripts and repos as a stopgap
> solution to get things started. This hacks around a few of the issues
> to have a working devstack-all-in-one-node.
>
>        
>
>       We are working on contributing by fixing issues and documenting
> relevant getting-started steps.
>
>        
>
>       For now, if it helps, you can try using
>
>        
>
>       https://github.com/nasim-techtrueup/contrail-devstack [3]
>
>        
>
>       which is working fairly well for mainline contrail
> + newton devstack on ubuntu14.04.2 build
>
>        
>
>        
>
>       Best Regards,
>
>       Nabeel
>
>       FROM: Dev [mailto:dev-boun...@lists.opencontrail.org [4]] ON BEHALF
> OF CARVER, PAUL
> SENT: Thursday, August 3, 2017 4:47 PM
> TO: Abhijit Gadgil <gabhi...@iitbombay.org [5]>;
> dev@lists.opencontrail.org [6]
> SUBJECT: Re: [opencontrail-dev] OpenContrail Quick Start
>
>         
>
>       You’re right that “getting started” documentation is a major
> area for improvement.
>
>         
>
>       We’ve got a new documentation repository where I hope we will be
> able to start consolidating the best information and weeding out the
> older and less accurate information, but currently it’s just a
> skeleton.
>
>         
>
>       https://review.opencontrail.org/34136 [7]
>
>         
>
>       If you’ve kept good notes on what worked and what didn’t we would
> love to have your help in cleaning up and consolidating the stuff that
> worked.
>
>         
>
>       FROM: Dev [mailto:dev-boun...@lists.opencontrail.org [8]] ON BEHALF
> OF Abhijit Gadgil
> SENT: Thursday, August 03, 2017 10:39
> TO: dev@lists.opencontrail.org [9]
> SUBJECT: [opencontrail-dev] OpenContrail Quick Start
>
>             
>
>       Dear All,
>
>       I am quite new to OpenContrail, but not so much to OpenStack or
> fiddling around vrtual networking in general. I am trying to bring up
> a single node OpenContrail. Something along the lines of `devstack`.
> Unfortunately, the documentation seems to be all over the place, for
> instance the Quick Start Guide looks quite dated and hard to follow. 
>
>       It took me a bit of a time to actually find out that there's a repo
> called `contrail-installer` that does something along the lines of
> what I want to do. I had a few troubles getting around the issues to
> make it run successfully on Ubuntu 16.04 (clearly the support doesn't
> exist, and looks like this project is not actively maintained), I have
> not yet completely gone past that issue - but using another approach I
> followed I am able to build the repository(ies).
>
>       After stumbling upon the following document - 
>
> http://juniper.github.io/contrail-vnc/README.html [10]
>
>       I managed to eventually get everything to build (though the approach
> I followed was inspired from what is mentioned here, but not exactly
> those instructions). For instance, when you build everything - it
> starts with web-core which I am not so much interested at the moment.
> I have managed to build the vRouter agent and the kernel module.
> (along with almost everything from the contrail-controller repo). 
>
>       I have a couple of questions -
>
>       1. Was I really looking at right places? This seems to be a rather
> steep learning curve for someone working for the first time with
> OpenContrail.
>
>         
>
>       2. If I am just interested in 'talking to agent somehow' and
> configuring the 'vrouter kernel module' to see what the datapath looks
> like - what should be the next logical step? Is it even trivially
> possible. I haven't looked at some of the unit-code tests yet, which I
> would probably next, but just wanted to learn if there's an alternate
> / better way.  
>
>       Thanks in advance.
>
>       -abhijit
>
>         
>
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-installer/graphs/contributors
> [2]
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_Juniper_contrail-2Dinstaller_pull_147&amp;d=DwQFaQ&amp;c=LFYZ-o9_HUMeMTSQicvjIg&amp;r=xtmPik_TP2fjPVGWP4yBRQ&amp;m=yEARNo_bph8KGjEjDPNf-01YZhFn5bN9cQSUBrXLimE&amp;s=NkwdROTC1ZmUzH1ZzThfOxSWJ7HYZIz5YeBIIU13fQU&amp;e=
> [3]
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_nasim-2Dtechtrueup_contrail-2Ddevstack&amp;d=DwQFaQ&amp;c=LFYZ-o9_HUMeMTSQicvjIg&amp;r=xtmPik_TP2fjPVGWP4yBRQ&amp;m=yEARNo_bph8KGjEjDPNf-01YZhFn5bN9cQSUBrXLimE&amp;s=xuSHI2cjWO4RVgy_kjgOwnuS0oDMqHVJEDjJPSg5R6w&amp;e=
> [4] mailto:dev-boun...@lists.opencontrail.org
> [5] mailto:gabhi...@iitbombay.org
> [6] mailto:dev@lists.opencontrail.org
> [7]
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__review.opencontrail.org_34136&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=LFYZ-o9_HUMeMTSQicvjIg&amp;r=xtmPik_TP2fjPVGWP4yBRQ&amp;m=yEARNo_bph8KGjEjDPNf-01YZhFn5bN9cQSUBrXLimE&amp;s=auCIJpgaAk1ai-v7GiJjZ_wMueg3uNHu3R23QnSaQPM&amp;e=
> [8] mailto:dev-boun...@lists.opencontrail.org
> [9] mailto:dev@lists.opencontrail.org
> [10]
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__juniper.github.io_contrail-2Dvnc_README.html&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=LFYZ-o9_HUMeMTSQicvjIg&amp;r=xtmPik_TP2fjPVGWP4yBRQ&amp;m=b7k-Tvrzapir03QSr1nFcNlK35bYBHB0hIZmOhlmXt4&amp;s=TsYHkF9nxE0tFVAKlF0wIdLf6XtDJRC93Wy4Gl7TzCw&amp;e=
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