Inventory of public teuthology clusters

[Loic Dachary <loic@dachary.org>]

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Hi Ceph,

With the teuthology OpenStack backend[1] and OpenStack public cloud providers[2], operating your own teuthology cluster is a few hours of work[3]. It is useful to developers who can test their modification even if they don't have access to the community lab and without waiting for more important jobs to complete. It is also import for non profit organizations such as http://tetaneutral.net/ who routinely deploy their own Ceph packages, to make sure the set of patches they chose to include on top of a Ceph stable release does not introduce a regression. It helps Ceph core developers when reviewing contributions that fail integration tests: the author of the contribution can reproduce the problem by running the job.

Although some organizations are expected to run their teuthology lab behind firewalls[4], we could see more and more teuthology clusters with results publicly available. The Ceph community lab[5] which runs hundreds of machines will hopefully be joined by other, more modest, clusters sharing their results in public. It would be great to have an inventory looking like this:

   URL: http://pulpito.ceph.com/
   Organization: Ceph
   Sponsors: Red Hat
   Contact: Ceph Development <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>

   URL: http://ceph.aevoo.fr:8081/
   Organization: Aevoo
   Sponsors: Aevoo
   Contact: David Casier <contact@aevoo.fr>

   URL: http://integration.ceph.dachary.org:8081/
   Organization: None
   Sponsors: Red Hat
   Contact: Loic Dachary <ldachary@redhat.com>

   etc.

I'm not sure where such a list could be hosted. The http://tracker.ceph.com/projects/lab/ wiki and http://ceph.github.io/sepia/ are dedicated to the Sepia lab, the other projects are dedicated to development. Any ideas ?

Maybe in a few months from now, if there are enough public facing teuthology clusters, we will be able to harvest and compare their result to reduce the redundancy and improve coverage. But I'm getting ahead of myself :-) 

Cheers

[1] teuthology OpenStack backend https://github.com/dachary/teuthology/tree/wip-6502-openstack/
[2] Public OpenStack providers useable within the hour http://dachary.org/?p=3741
[3] Running your own Ceph integration tests with OpenStack http://dachary.org/?p=3767
[4] Red Hat, SUSE, Fujitsu, Intel have teuthology clusters behind firewalls, for instance
[5] Sepia lab http://ceph.github.io/sepia/

-- 
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre


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