Would it be possible to use ansible vault files for that (using some kind
of internal ansible API)?

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:15 AM Pierre-Yves Chibon <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:22:27AM -0300, Leonardo Rossetti wrote:
> >    On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 8:07 AM Clement Verna
> >    <[1][email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >      Hi all,
> >      I wanted to start a discussion and possibly some work around
> automating
> >      the manual tasks involved in the release engineering work.
> >      In particular I have in mind the following tasks :
> >       - processing the unretire package tickets.
> >       - processing the requests for a new package or a new branch.
> >       - container base image release.
> >      Instead of looking at each of these individually I was thinking
> that it
> >      might be interesting to look at having an automation framework or
> >      something like a bot that could be flexible enough to add more
> tasks or
> >      process in the future.
> >      To do that we have different possibilities, one could be to build a
> bot
> >      that has a similar architecture than the compose-tracker
> >      ([2]https://pagure.io/releng/compose-tracker) ie a fedora-messaging
> >      consumer processing messages.
> >      Another option is to use loopabull
> >      ([3]https://github.com/maxamillion/loopabull) to trigger ansible
> >      playbook on fedora-messaging messages.
> >      Both solutions are quite similar, but one (loopabull) provides
> already
> >      the boilerplate to trigger a script or a function based on messages
> >      received (a bit like AWS lambda or other serverless framework). We
> also
> >      have already a few process automated that way
> >      ([4]https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/loopabull-tasks).
> >      So I believe that using loopabull might be the best way forward,
> but I
> >      would be interested to hear about other ideas :-)
> >
> >    I would lean to use loopabull because it already works in a "reactive
> way"
> >    with mq messages and we don't need to write a full application since
> we
> >    will be using ansible (which still can be "extended" developing
> modules
> >    for complex tasks) - the above script could become a couple of ansible
> >    modules to be used in a playbook with loopabull.
>
> I like loopabull, having been pretty much the only one playing with it
> since
> Adam, I think it's a nice and fine tool and we should try leveraging it.
> There is one angle where it isn't straight forward to use, it's secrets.
> Currently the API tokens the scripts are using are passed as CLI argument
> when
> calling the script.
> If we end up needing something like kerberos keytab for example, we may
> have to
> think how to do this and evaluate if loopabull is still a good fit.
>
>
> Pierre
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