[Gluster-devel] gluster-ansible: status of the project

[Sachidananda URS]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:

>
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> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 2:33 PM Sachidananda URS <surs at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> gluster-ansible project is aimed at automating the deployment and
>> maintenance of GlusterFS cluster.
>>
>> The project can be found at:
>>
>> * https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible
>> * https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible-infra
>> * https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible-features
>> * https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible-maintenance
>> * https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible-cluster
>> * https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible-repositories
>>
>> We have the python bindings for GlusterD2 API, and can be found at:
>>
>> https://github.com/gluster/python-gluster-mgmt-client
>>
>> The goal is to use the python bindings in gluster_ansible module to make
>> it work with GlusterD2.
>>
>> Current status of the project:
>>
>> * We have the initial working roles, packages are available at:
>>    - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sac/gluster-ansible/builds/
>>
>> * The initial version supports:
>>    - End-to-end deployment of Gluster Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
>>    - GlusterFS volume management
>>    - GlusterFS brick setup
>>    - Packages and repository management
>>
>> * Autogeneration of python bindings for GlusterD2 is being worked by
>> Sidharth (https://github.com/sidharthanup) and available at:
>>   - https://github.com/sidharthanup/GD2_API/blob/
>> master/testgen/glusterapi_README.md
>>
>> The GD2 API python project will be merged into python-gluster-mgmt-client.
>>
>> * Ansible modules (WIP):
>>    - New module: Facts module for self-heal and rebalance. Devyani is
>> working on these modules.
>>      https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45997 - self-heal
>>    - Remove brick feature for gluster_ansible module:
>>      https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38269
>>
>
> Is there any work planned for dynamic inventory (https://docs.ansible.com/
> ansible/2.5/dev_guide/developing_inventory.html) ?
> Peers, bricks and volumes are all good candidates for dynamic inventory.
>
>>
>>
>> * Sheersha and Nigel are working on continuous integration, and PR is at:
>>    - https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible-infra/pull/29
>>    - https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible-infra/pull/26
>>
>> The CI work is in progress and will be integrated soon. Which will help
>> us to keep the repository
>> in stable condition.
>>
>
> I recommend running ansible-lint in CI. For example:
> [ykaul at ykaul gluster-ansible-infra]$ find . -name "*.yml" |xargs
> ansible-lint
> Syntax Error while loading YAML.
>   did not find expected ',' or '}'
>
>
I remember Nigel and Sheersha running ansible-lint (or yaml-lint) on the
roles. I think they run
on the tasks directory. But it is good idea to run on all the yamls.



> The error appears to have been in '/home/ykaul/github/gluster-
> ansible-infra/examples/backend_with_vdo.yml': line 22, column 8, but may
> be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
>        - {vgname: 'vg_sdb', thinpoolname: 'foo_thinpool', thinpoolsize:
> '100G', poolmetadatasize: '16G'
>        - {vgname: 'vg_sdc', thinpoolname: 'bar_thinpool', thinpoolsize:
> '500G', poolmetadatasize: '16G'
>        ^ here
> This one looks easy to fix.  It seems that there is a value started
> with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended
> with the same kind of quote.  For instance:
>
>
Yeah the closing brace `}' is missing. This is fixed in upstream by PR:
https://github.com/gluster/gluster-ansible-infra/pull/28

-sac
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