infra-specs/specs/openstackci.rst

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Common OpenStack CI Solution

https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2000101

Rather than having every Third Party CI operator create and manage their own Third Party CI Solution, let's create a simpler version of what the OpenStack Infrastructure team uses that also fits the needs and scale of Third Party CI operators.

Problem Description

There are over 100 Third Party CI accounts, presumably each with their own Third Party CI solution. Many of them are closed-source, a few are open-source hosted in personal repositories such as github, and as a whole, require significant effort to share and maintain.

Jay Pipes created an open source version hosted in GitHub, but it is no longer being actively maintained. (https://github.com/jaypipes/os-ext-testing). A few others have forked his repository, including one by Ramy Asselin who is attempting to keep one up-to-date with many of the recent changes in the dependent openstack-infra repositories. However, since they are out of tree, updates are done after the system breaks rather than before.

Part of the reason why the system breaks is that, in the case of the Jay Pipe's forks, these CI systems use a copy-paste-customize approach to reuse many of OpenStack Infrastructure's puppet scripts, while using others directly via installed modules. This eventually leads to inconsistencies that have to be manually reconciled.

Proposed Change

Refactor the existing OpenStack Infrastructure CI puppet scripts to be reusable by Third Party CI. These puppet scripts are located in http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/system-config/tree/modules/openstack_project

Create a new puppet module to host the refactored and reusable puppet scripts such that they are consumable by both the OpenStack Infrastructure CI and Third Party CIs. The puppet scripts already support a project-config plugin (using puppet-project_config) to pass in custom jobs, nodepool, and zuul configuration. In other areas, make use of heira and puppet arguments as appropriate.

Add tests to validate an OpenStack CI setup can all be successfully installed and run on a single VM.

Alternatives

• Continue to individually maintain numerous independent Third Party CI solutions out-of-tree.
• Only refactor the OpenStack-infra CI puppet scripts to be reusable and leave them in the system-config project.

Implementation

Third Party CI currently uses the following components:

• Apache
• Jenkins
• Jenkins Job Builder
• Zuul
• Nodepool
• Log Server / os-loganalyze
• Logstash / kibana (optional)

Create a new project and puppet module, puppet-openstackci, in openstack-infra that contains the puppet scripts necessary to install and configure the above components.

The OpenStack Infrastructure CI & Third Party CI operators will reuse these puppet script to manage their Third Party CI system, along with a privately maintained Hiera configuration and site specific fork / non-fork replica of openstack-infra/project-config plugged in via puppet-project_config.

Create a puppet script that integrates all the components on a single node.

Assignee(s)

Primary assignee(s):

• asselin
• sweston

Additional assignee(s):

• krtaylor
• Chris Hoge

Gerrit Topic

Use Gerrit topic "downstream-puppet" for all patches related to this spec.

git-review -t downstream-puppet

Work Items

• Create a new project in openstack-infra called 'puppet-openstackci'
• Refactor the following openstack_project components into sharable puppet scripts, and save them in openstack-infra/puppet-openstackci
  • Jenkins server
  • Jenkins Job Builder
  • Nodepool
  • Zuul
  • Log Server / os-loganalyze
  • Logstash / kibana
• Migrate the system-config/module/openstack_project to use the puppet-openstackci
• Add new check/gate job to verify puppet-openstackci integrated puppet script succeeds
• Update Third Party CI Documentation

Repositories

• openstack-infra/puppet-openstackci

Servers

None

DNS Entries

None

Documentation

Add documentation to use new Third Party CI puppet script here:

Published: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/third_party.html

Source: https://github.com/openstack-infra/system-config/blob/master/doc/source/third_party.rst

Security

None

Testing

• Unit tests: Reuse the lint, syntax-check, etc. tests.
• Integration tests: Add a new test to verify the OpenStack CI system can be launched successfully on a single node.

Dependencies

• Refactoring of the OpenStack project components would likely be more easily accomplished after applying the changes documented in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/137471/
• New Puppet Module: puppet-openstackci