From ddccfa5096c8ea07f014aa6700af6a769621a944 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Rollenhagen Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:30:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add jroll for ironic ocata PTL Change-Id: I8a5ef8dd497f9d459b6d884be92f0010ea04406b --- candidates/ocata/Ironic/jroll.txt | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/ocata/Ironic/jroll.txt diff --git a/candidates/ocata/Ironic/jroll.txt b/candidates/ocata/Ironic/jroll.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0cd80561 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/ocata/Ironic/jroll.txt @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +Hi friends, + +I'd like to be the ironic PTL for another cycle, if you'll have me. + +Newton, in my opinion, has been Ironic's best cycle yet. We got a ton of work +done, and made good progress on the work we didn't finish. Some of the +highlights from this cycle include: + +* Upgrade testing. We've struggled to make progress until this cycle, when we + really went all-out on getting it done. We also have multinode CI working + and awaiting reviews, which is a great thing to have anyway, and also a huge + first step to testing rolling upgrades. + +* Multitenant networking. This has been our biggest feature request for years, + and we've been hacking on it since Liberty. We finally got it done (though + of course, there's more to add on top) in both Ironic and Nova this cycle. + +* Speaking of Nova, we've made huge progress there. We now support multiple + nova-compute services running the Ironic driver. We have a nova-compatible + console done in Ironic, with patches ready for Nova to land at the beginning + of Ocata. We've laid the groundwork on both sides to make scheduling better, + and remove the (host, node) tuple that we plagued Nova with for years. And + I believe we've made large strides in how we interact with the Nova team; + things seem much more friendlier, and people are willing to help each other + out more on both sides. + +* Fine-grained keystone policy. This is a huge step in helping operators + improve the security of their deployments. + +* Our server and client both properly support Keystone v3 now. + +* We now have third-party CI for iLO, iRMC, Cisco UCS/CIMC, OneView, PowerKVM, + and DRAC. We're on a path to removing drivers without CI. For context, a year + ago we had no third-party CI. :) + +* ironic-python-agent is now the only supported deploy ramdisk, and the APIs + it uses have been promoted to first class APIs. + +* Ironic now emits software metrics and has a framework for emitting + notifications for use by Searchlight and other systems. + +* Existing systems may now be 'adopted' by ironic to help folks migrate their + existing environments to be managed by ironic. + +There's many more things we've done in the 3 releases we shipped this cycle, +but this is a PTL nomination, not Newton release notes, so I'll stop there. + +Going forward into Ocata, there's a few major things I'd like to focus on: + +* Rolling upgrades. Most of the base IaaS has this or will have it soon. We're + on a good path to getting it done, and I think it's super important for + deployers. + +* Continue progress on the networking work. We need to finish portgroups and + get a plan (and hopefully some code) together for vlan-aware baremetal + instances. This will allow an arbitrary number of Neutron networks to be + connected over an arbitrary number of physical NICs, which is incredibly + useful to users. + +* Driver composition. This will get rid of our ever-increasing driver matrix + and help users make more sense of all the driver options. It also helps + clean up lots of internal code, so it's important to everyone. + +* Boot from volume. This didn't make as much progress as I liked in Newton, + so we should keep working on it and try to at least get all the plumbing + landed, if not the first implementation. Lots of folks are asking for this, + and it's the best path we have to something that looks like 'nova migrate'. + +* Above all else, I plan to make it a priority to mentor a few folks that could + be the next PTL. I didn't do a good job of this in Newton (though I think + some people could do the job now). I think it's important to rotate the + leadership, so I hope that the project is in a position where I can step + down after Ocata, and write more code in Pike. + +Whether I'm elected PTL or not, I plan to be working upstream on ironic +full-time during Ocata, and look forward to another successful cycle. :) + +// jim