[Users] [vdsm] [ATTENTION] vdsm-bootstrap/host deployment (pre-3.2)

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:59:10AM -0500, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Preparing to ovirt-engine 3.2 the entire "vdsm-bootstrap" bootstrap
> was re-written from scratch into more pluggable and flexible
> implementation, available at git master and nightly snapshots.
> 
> As far as packaging is concerned there are now two more dependencies to ovirt-engine:
> 
>  * otopi -- oVirt Task Oriented Pluggable Installer/Implementation
>  * ovirt-host-deploy -- oVirt host deploy tool
> 
> These packages replace the legacy vdsm-bootstrap package that was
> distributed with vdsm.

Hurray!

I suspect that a `git-rm vds_bootstrap/*` is pending?

> 
> Git repositories are available at at[1][2].
> Documentation is available at Git repositories - README*.
> Builds are available at usual place[3].
> Bugzilla components will be available shortly.

Are there requests to add the components to Fedora (18, EPEL6)?
I think we should add these requests as blockers for Bug 881006 -
Tracker: oVirt 3.2 release.

> Change log is attached.
> 
> There is no change in the way the engine is performing the host
> deployment process in term of user experience, other than event log
> messages during deployment were improved.
> 
> The log of the deployment is fetched from host and stored at engine
> machine at /var/log/ovirt-engine/host-deploy, on host it is at
> /tmp/ovirt-host-deploy*.log and deleted when fetched to engine.
> 
> Among other features, the ovir-host-deploy package can be installed
> manually on host and executed to prepare host for installation, in
> future we may be able to add host to engine without performing the
> deployment process, for now it will be usable for integration tests.
> 
> The internals are completely different, instead of having 3 different
> bootstrap sequences:
>  1. host install
>  2. ovirt-node install
>  3. ovirt-node approve
> 
> We now have single sequence which is common to host and node
> installation or re-installation, end result is much simpler
> implementation.
> 
> Please report any issues even minor issues, so we can stabilize it for
> 3.2 release.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev.
> 
> [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=otopi.git;a=tree
> [2] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-host-deploy.git;a=tree
> [3] http://www.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/rpm/Fedora/17/noarch/
> 
> ---
> 
> Change Log
> 
>  * offline packager feature.
> 
>  * tuned is installed with virtual-host profile.

I never understood why this is an installer step, and not part of vdsmd
start up

>  * initial implementation based on otpoi.
> 
>  * implementation is based on legacy vdsm-bootstrap pacakge functionality.
> 
>  * legacy-removed: legacy VDSM (<3.0) config upgrade.
> 
>  * legacy-removed: change machine width core file
>   # echo /var/lib/vdsm/core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

Yeah, qemu-kvm and libvirtd are much more stable than in the old days,
but wouldn't we want to keep a means to collect the corpses of dead
processes from hypervisors? It has helped us nail down nasty bugs, even
in Python.

> 
>  * legacy-removed: kernel version test, package dependency is sufficient.
> 
>  * legacy-removed: do not add kernel parameter processor.max_cstate=1
>    warn if not have constant_tsc
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770153
> 
>  * legacy-change: io elevator scheduler set in kernel command-line
>    use either udev rule in vdsm package or tuned.
> 
>  * legacy-change: vdsm libvirt reconfigure
>    vdsm is reconfigured with file based trigger instead unsupported systemd
>    init.d parameter.
> 
>  * legacy-change: distribution checks are simpler based on Python platform,
>    minimum:
>    - rhel-6.2
>    - fedora-17
> 
>  * legacy-change: minimum vdsm version is taken from engine not hard coded.
> 
>  * legacy-change: pki is now using m2crypto to generate certificate request
>    and parse certificates.
> 
>  * legacy-change: use iproute2 instead of python ethtool to avoid another
>    dependency for host name validation.
> 
>  * legacy-change: use iproute2 instead of reading /proc/net/route for route
>    information and interface information.
> 
>  * legacy-change: do not use vdsm.netinfo for vlan and bonding as it requires
>    /usr/share/vdsm modules, and it is trivial anyway.
> 
>  * legacy-change: use vdsm-store-net-config script to commit network config
>    instead of internal duplicate implementation.
> 
>  * legacy-change: /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf is overridden unless VDSM/configOverride
>    environment is set to True

I'm a bit confused by the negation: I'd expect VDSM/configOverride=True
to mean "override /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf".

> 
>  * legacy-change: /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf is not read of fake_qemu.
>    set VDSM/checkVirtHardware environment to False to avoid hardware detection.
> 
>  * legacy-change: following gluster packages not installed:
>    - glusterfs-rdma
>    - glusterfs-geo-replication


Alon, thanks for your tremendous work on this. I cannot wait to have it
up and running in the release.

Dan.