On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: > For those that didn't notice, on the Devstack team we've started to push > back on new in-tree support for all the features. That's intentional. > We've got an external plugin interface now - > > http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/plugins.html#externally-hosted-plugins > , > and have a few projects like the ec2api and glusterfs that are > successfully using it. Our Future direction is to do more of this - > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/150789/ > > The question people ask a lot is 'but, how do I do a gate job with the > external plugin?'. > > Starting with the stackforge/ec2api we have an example up on how to do > that: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/153659/ > > The important bits are as follows: > > 1. the git repo that you have your external plugin in *must* be in > gerrit. stackforge is fine, but it has to be hosted in the OpenStack > infrastructure. > > 2. The job needs to add your PROJECT to the projects list, i.e.: > > export PROJECTS="stackforge/ec2-api $PROJECTS" > > 3. The job needs to add a DEVSTACK_LOCAL_CONFIG line for the plugin > enablement: > > export DEVSTACK_LOCAL_CONFIG="enable_plugin ec2-api > git://git.openstack.org/stackforge/ec2-api" > > Beyond that you can define your devstack job however you like. It can > test with Tempest. It can instead use a post_test_hook for functional > testing. Whatever is appropriate for your project. > > This is awesome Sean! Thanks for the inspiration here. In fact, I just pushed a series of patches [1] [2] which do the same for the networking-odl stackforge project.
Thanks, Kyle [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/153704/ [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/153705/ -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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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