Ussuri project priorities
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=========================
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Ussuri Project Priorities
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=========================
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This is a list of goals the Ironic team is prioritizing for
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Ussuri development cycle, in order of relative size and dependency
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addressing.
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Note that this is not our complete backlog for the cycle, we still hope
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to review and land non-priority items.
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The primary contact(s) listed are responsible for tracking the status of
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that work and herding cats to help get that work done. They are not the only
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contributor(s) to this work, and not necessarily doing most of the coding!
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They are expected to be available on IRC and the ML for questions, and report
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status on the whiteboard_ for the weekly IRC sync-up. The number of primary
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contacts is typically limited to 2-3 individuals to simplify communication.
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We expect at least one of them to have core privileges to simplify getting
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changes in.
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.. _whiteboard: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/IronicWhiteBoard
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Goals
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~~~~~
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| Priority | Primary Contacts |
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+=======================================+=====================================+
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| `Scale / Performance`_ | TheJulia, arne_wiebalck |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| `Bare metal program/SIG`_ | TheJulia, arne_wiebalck |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| `Deploy Steps`_ | dtantsur, mgoddard |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| `Replacing WSME`_ | dtantsur |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| `Node retirement/quarantine`_ | arne_wiebalck, rpittau |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| `Managed boot for inspection`_ | dtantsur |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| `Multitenancy/Machine Ownership`_ | tzumainn |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| `DHCP-less Deployments`_ | etingof |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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Community Goals
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| Goal | Primary Contacts |
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+=======================================+=====================================+
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| `IPv6 support`_ | TheJulia |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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| `Drop Python 2.7 Support`_ | iurygregory, rpittau |
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+---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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Experiment for the Future
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Ironic is stable, but it doesn't mean we should not experiment and find new
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ways to solve the same problems. General consensus seems to be that this is an
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important step forward to allow ourselves to further enable the future.
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We give ourself the freedom to Innovate, Experiment, Evolve, and of utmost
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importance the freedom to listen to our users.
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Some of these things may be to just enable Software RAID 5/6, DHCP-less
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deployment, boot-from-url for IPv4, or even kexec deployment. The idea being
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that these are focused high-impact and tactical changes and we should
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encourage such capabilities to merge.
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The ultimate goal being to deliver and respond to the needs of our users
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faster.
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Details
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~~~~~~~
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Scale / Performance
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-------------------
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Ironic is being used all over the world. From small clusters to clusters which
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may only be able to be described as "mind-boggling".
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While scale brings a different class of problems, we have consumers and users
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which can be impacted through even small minor changes. We *must* bring
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visibility and awareness to this topic as well as ensuring we set
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expectations and communicate ideal architectures.
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* Implement some lightweight stress and performance testing
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* Documentation oriented to scaleing
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It will be important to work with the `Bare Metal SIG`_ on this topic.
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Deploy Steps
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While a theme that was included in the Train cycle, the overall effort for
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deploy steps is ongoing. The Train cycle provided more interfaces capable of
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being leveraged via deploy steps. The primary goal is to support in-band
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execution of deploy steps with the focus being on leveraging Software RAID.
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Bare metal program/SIG
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----------------------
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The most powerful thing the Ironic community can do this cycle is not actually
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in code, but in documentation. The recently created
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`Bare Metal SIG <https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/bare-metal-sig>`_ is working
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on creation of a white paper as part of the
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`Bare Metal logo program <https://www.openstack.org/bare-metal/>`_, and needs
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our help for stand-alone use cases.
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Replacing WSME
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Most long time contributors are aware of the headaches that WSME has brought
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the community, along with the fact that many projects have migrated away from
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it.
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In order to move us to something which is supported by a broader community,
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the consensus from the Train Project Teams Gathering, was to move ironic
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towards using Flask. We'll start with re-working a single endpoint and
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hopefully move through the rest of the API in a rapid fashion.
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Node retirement/quarantine
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Larger operators with Ironic have found themselves approaching a quandry of
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"What is the proper way to retire a machine from ironic?". A nearly identical
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topic has arisen from the Telecom world seeking to represent the state of the
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node more accurately with-in ironic as to represent if a machine is in a fault
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state or questionable state under-going investigation.
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With that being said, we did not make progess on this issue in the past cycle
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due to a fundamental disagreements in perception. The Project Teams Gathering
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in Shanghai provided a forum for discussion where we realized that these are
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actually similar but separate issues. One is for a separate logic path in what
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could be three or six months, and the other is a change in present time.
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Managed boot for inspection
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---------------------------
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In order to support edge architectures and on-demand inspection, we need to
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enable managing the activation of inspection through ironic.
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Multitenancy/Machine Ownership
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The reality of hosting environments is that someone owns the hardware.
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Sometimes this may be the tenant that needs to be on the hardware, and
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we can't expect them to have administrative access to all hardware.
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Thus we need to support a model where a tenant can be granted access
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a piece of hardware.
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DHCP-less Deployments
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Deployment of machines at the edge requires the case where we do not control
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DHCP. Except there are cases where there might not be any DHCP server,
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and in such cases, we must supply networking configuration in the
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virtual media being attached to the physical machine being deployed.
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IPv6 support
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------------
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The OpenStack Technical Committee had a goal for the Train cycle for projects
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to implement IPv6 testing in order to declare IPv6 support. We as a community
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are aware that our IPv6 support works, however the anticipated changes from
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a community standpoint were incompatible with the settings required to
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emulate physical baremetal.
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Also, we have encountered some issues with testing IPv6 support where
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existing default binary builds that are published in distributions lack
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some of the required support to be enabled.
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More information can be found in `change 657174 <https://review.opendev.org/#/c/657174>`_.
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Drop Python 2.7 Support
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-----------------------
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Time has come to remove support for Python 2.7 as upstream security
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support for Python 2.7 is being dropped early in the Ussuri development
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cycle.
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