One of the key goals in RDO is to provide a set of well tested and up-to-date repositories that can be smoothly used by our users:
- Operators deploying OpenStack with any of the available tools.
- Upstream projects using RDO repos to develop and test their patches, as OpenStack puppet modules, TripleO or kolla.
To include new patches in RDO packages as soon as possible, in RDO Trunk repos we build and publish new packages when commits are merged in upstream repositories. To ensure the content of theses packages is trustworthy, we run different tests which helps us to identify any problem introduced by the changes committed.
This post provides an overview of how we test RDO repositories. If you are interested in collaborate with us in running an improving it, feel free to let us know in #rdo channel in freenode or rdo-list mailing list.
Promotion Pipelines
Promotion pipelines are composed by a set of related CI jobs that are executed for each supported OpenStack release to test the content of a specific RDO repository. Currently promotion pipelines are executed in diferent phases:
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Define the repository to be tested. RDO Trunk repositories are identified by a hash based on the upstream commit of the last built package. The content of these repos doesn’t change over time. When a promotion pipeline is launched, it grabs the latest consistent hash repo and sets it to be tested in following phases.
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Build TripleO images. TripleO is the recommended deployment tool for production usage in RDO and as such, is tested in RDO CI jobs. Before actually deploying OpenStack using TripleO the required images are built.
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Deploy and test RDO. We run a set of jobs which deploy and test OpenStack using different installers and scenarios to ensure they behave as expected. Currently, following deployment tools and configurations are tested:
- TripleO deployments. Using tripleo-quickstart we deploy two different configurations, minimal and minimal_pacemaker which apply different settings that cover most common options.
- OpenStack Puppet scenarios. Project puppet-openstack-integration (a.k.a. p-o-i) maintains a set of puppet manifest to deploy different OpenStack services combinations and configurations (scenarios) in a single server using OpenStack puppet modules and run tempest smoke tests for the deployed services. The tested services on each scenario can be found in the README for p-o-i. Scenarios 1, 2 and 3 are currently tested in RDO CI as
- Packstack deployment. As part of the upstream testing, packstack defines three deployment scenarios to verify the correct behavior of the existing options. Note that tempest smoke tests are executed also in these jobs. In RDO-CI we leverage those scenarios to test new packages built in RDO repos.
- Repository and images promotion. When all jobs in the previous phase succeed, the tested repository is considered good and it is promoted so that users can use these packages:
- The repo is published using CentOS CDN in Jenkings Job Builder, JJB, via gerrit review workflow in review.rdoproject.org
- weirdo is the tool we use to run p-o-i and Packstack testing scenarios defined upstream inside RDO CI. It’s composed of a set of ansible roles and playbooks that prepares the environment and deploy and test the installers using the testing scripts provided by the projects.
- TripleO Quickstart provides a set of scripts, ansible roles and pre-defined configurations to deploy an OpenStack cloud using TripleO in a simple and fully automated way.
- ARA is used to store and visualize the results of ansible playbook runs, making easier to analize and troubleshoot them.
Infrastructure
RDO is part of the CentOS Cloud Special Interest Group so we run promotion pipelines in CentOS CI infrastructure where Jenkins is used as continuous integration server..
Handling issues in RDO CI
An important aspect of running RDO CI is managing properly the errors found in the jobs included in the promotion pipelines. The root cause of these issues sometimes is in the OpenStack upstream projects:
- Some problems are not catched in devstack-based jobs running in upstream gates.
- In some cases, new versions of OpenStack services require changes in the deployment tools (puppet modules, TripleO, etc…).
One of the contributions of RDO to upstream projects is to increase test coverage of the projects and help to identify the problems as soon as possible. When we find them we report it upstream as Launchpad bugs and propose fixes when possible.
Every time we find an issue, a new card is added to the TripleO and RDO CI Status Trello board where we track the status and activities carried out to get it fixed.
Status of promotion pipelines
If you are interested in the status of the promotion pipelines in RDO CI you can check:
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CentOS CI RDO view can be used to see the result and status of the jobs for each OpenStack release.
- RDO Dashboard shows the overal status of RDO packaging and CI.
More info
- TripleO quickstart demostration by trown
- Weirdo: A talk about CI in OpenStack and RDO by dmsimard.
- ARA blog posts – from dmsimard blog
- Ci in RDO: What do we test
? – presentation in RDO and Ceph Meetup BCN.