Greetings, This is just an update that since then, I've submitted ARA to be moved under the /openstack umbrella [1] and I've just cut a new release which includes a feature for generating a static version of the web interface [2].
Thanks for your interest :) [1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:create-ara-project [2]: http://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#generating-a-static-version-of-the-web-application David Moreau Simard Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 3:31 PM, David Moreau Simard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again openstack-infra, > > We've worked quite a bit on ARA since I first told you guys about it here. > We're pretty much out of PoC and Alpha territory by now and I've made > a formal public announcement about it [1]. > > Following up on the questions from the thread now that we've progressed a bit: > - Usability with things like ElasticSearch: > The ARA CLI client uses Cliff and thus has a very similar look and > feel as python-openstackclient. > Cliff provides several output formats out of the box such as YAML or JSON. > You could use the client to output the information you want in JSON > format and then send that off to ElasticSearch with already-indexed > fields. > > - Static file generation > This is very high on the list of things to do. > We will make it possible for the ARA CLI client to generate a static > version of the interface for a single playbook run. > So far we're aiming more towards a html "tree" rather than just a > single page to keep the same browsing experience. > > I see a great opportunity for ARA to be used by the OpenStack community. > The project officially needs a home for code reviews and I think > openstack or openstack-infra with the usual gerrit workflow would be a > great fit if you believe it makes sense. > > What do you think ? > > Please let me know ! > > Thanks, > > [1]: > https://dmsimard.com/2016/05/21/ara-an-idea-to-store-browse-and-troubleshoot-ansible-playbook-runs/ > > David Moreau Simard > Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO > > dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] > > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:24 PM, David Moreau Simard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi openstack-infra, >> >> I've been hacking on an idea since last friday and I was thinking it >> could be of interest for you guys as Ansible users, but also >> considering the next generation of Zuul jobs will be powered by >> Ansible. >> >> The project I'm working on is called ARA [1]. It is very much an alpha >> at this point but it is hopefully fleshed out enough at this point for >> you to see where I am going with this. >> I could go on about what the project looks like but I've actually >> built a sane amount of docs [2] and even put up a video of what the >> interface looks like on YouTube [3]. >> >> ARA was born out of necessity because the vast majority of RDO CI [4] >> is driven by Ansible, either through projects like TripleO-Quickstart >> [5] or WeIRDO [6]. >> >> We are equipped in a fairly similar way than upstream, we have Jenkins >> console logs that are large enough to crash your browser and logs that >> are collected and made browsable like on logs.o.o. >> In a nutshell, we're running CI jobs that install and test OpenStack >> deployments through various installers: TripleO, Packstack, >> Puppet-OpenStack, and soon: Kolla and Chef-OpenStack. >> >> The sad reality is that the RDO community has limited resources and >> ARA aims at making it easier and faster to see what failed, where and >> why to make everyone more efficient. >> Another sad truth is that I am much more a system administrator than a >> developer and as such I am not exactly awesome in either Python or >> UI/UX frontends. >> >> As such, if you are interested in the project, I would certainly >> welcome not only feedback but contributions if you feel you could use >> this. >> >> Let me know if you have any questions ! >> >> [1]: https://github.com/dmsimard/ara >> [2]: http://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ >> [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3jTqgm2YuY >> [4]: https://ci.centos.org/view/rdo/view/promotion-pipeline/ >> [5]: https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-quickstart >> [6]: https://github.com/redhat-openstack/weirdo >> >> David Moreau Simard >> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO >> >> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
