I like the swift/HTTP proposal. In kayobe we've considered how to customise the deployment process, with hook points [1] looking like the right approach.
Another possibility when deploy steps [2] land could be to break up the ansible deployment into multiple steps, and allow each step to be overridden. [1] https://github.com/stackhpc/kayobe/issues/52 [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/412523/ On 31 January 2018 at 13:16, Dmitry Tantsur <dtant...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to discuss one idea that came to me while trying to use the > ansible deploy in TripleO. > > The ansible deploy interface is all about customization. Meaning, we > expect people to modify the playbooks. I have two concerns with it: > > 1. Nearly any additions requires a full copy of the playbooks. Which will > make the operators miss any future updates to the shipped version (e.g. > from packages). > > 2. We require operators to modify playbooks on the hard drive in a > location, available to ironic-conductor. This is inconvenient when there > are many conductors and quite hairy with containers. > > So, what came to my mind is: > > 1. Let us maybe define some hook points in our playbooks and allow > operators to overwrite only them? I'm not sure how it's going to look, so > suggestions are welcome. > > 2. Let us maybe allow a swift or http(s) URL for the playbooks_path > configuration? That will be a link to a tarball that will be unpacked by > ironic to a temporary location before executing. > > What do you think? > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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