Re: OpenStack - Libvirt+Xen CI overview

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>]

Bob Ball wrote:
> For the last few weeks Anthony and I have been working on creating a CI environment to run against all OpenStack jobs.  We're now in a position where we can share the current status, overview of how it works and next steps.  We actively want to support involvement in this effort from others with an interest in libvirt+Xen's openstack integration.
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> The CI we have set up is follow the recommendations made by the OpenStack official infrastructure maintainers, and reproduces a notable portion of the official OpenStack CI environment to run these tests.  Namely this setup is using:
> - Puppet to deploy the master node
> - Zuul to watch for code changes uploaded to review.openstack.org
> - Jenkins job builder to create Jenkins job definitions from a YAML file
> - Nodepool to automatically create single-use virtual machines in the Rackspace public cloud 
> - Devstack-gate to run Tempest tests in serial
>
> More information on Zuul, JJB, Nodepool and devstack-gate is available through http://ci.openstack.org
>
> The current status is that we have a zuul instance monitoring for jobs and adding them to the queue of jobs to be run at http://zuul.openstack.xenproject.org/
>
> In the background Nodepool provisions virtual machines into a pool of nodes ready to be used.  All ready nodes are automatically added to Jenkins (https://jenkins.openstack.xenproject.org/), and then Zuul+Jenkins will trigger a particular job on a node when one is available.
>
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> Logs are then uploaded to Rackspace's Cloud Files with sample logs for
> a passing job at
> http://logs.openstack.xenproject.org/52/162352/3/silent/dsvm-tempest-xen/da3ff30/index.html

Thanks for the info!

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> I'd like to organise a meeting to walk through the various components
> of the CI with those who are interested, so this is an initial call to
> find out who is interested in finding out more!

I'd like to know more.

Regards,
Jim