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DISTRIBUTED CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
Gonéri Le Bouder
Senior Software Engineer
R&D Common Components

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● OSP is in sync with OpenStack upstream and follow the cadence.
● OpenStack comes with a lot of drivers
● Red Hat works with a large number of partners
● Partners want to prepare their solution before OSP GA
● Customers may also have complex topology
● Testing testing time
A Bit of context

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● Allows Partners and Customers to work on the latest Red Hat OpenStack builds
available, as soon as possible, in their own environment.
● Shortens the time and effort for RHOSP Certification since it can run the certification
test suite on every change.
● Simplifies the upgrade progress by testing incremental changes.
● Provides automated feedback to Red Hat with helpful logs.
● Focus debugging efforts on the subset of the code that has changed.
● Include RHOSP tests as well as Partner's and customer's specific tests.
● Gives customers the ability to continue to test RHOSP beyond GA.
WHY DISTRIBUTED CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION?
DCI aims to change the way partners interact with Red Hat OpenStack.

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OBJECTIVES:
DCI aims to change the way Partners interact with Red Hat. The main objectives are
to:
● Improve the influence of key use cases in the development of the product by
enabling a mechanism to provide automated and actionable feedback on any
given release.
● Continuous certification.
● A path for fast adoption of new releases.
● Cross-product continuous integration.

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DCI Workflow: From our internal CI to the partner, the big picture
Release
mgmt
Control
Server
Remote CI #1
New version
of Product A
New tests of
Product A
Remote CI #2
Artifact
repository
Red Hat Internal
network Internet Veritas’ networks
RH-OSP
CI
Partner
config
Outside
of DCI

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DCI Workflow: Inside the Veritas Wall
Control
Server
Artifact
repository
Partner’s networksInternet
DCI Agent
Node Director Node
computes controllers storage
Schedule new jobs
Sends back test results and logs
● deploy
● test
● destroy
Partner’s
repository

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DCI Technical stack
Web UI
DCI API
Control Server
Ansible modules CLI
python-dciclient
Agent

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CUSTOMER and PARTNER BENEFITS
● Provide an opinionated feedback
from an important use case at the
right time for action.
● Validating what’s coming on the next
release on their environment
● Access the latest Red Hat
OpenStack builds available, as soon
as possible, in their own
environment.
● Simplifies the upgrade progress by
testing incremental changes.
● Focus debugging efforts on the
subset of the code that has changed.
● Tooling for continuous Certification
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
OPENSTACK SUMMIT BARCELONA

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CUSTOMER and PARTNER BENEFITS
● Provide an opinionated feedback
from an important use case at the
right time for action.
● Validating what’s coming on the next
release on their environment
● Access the latest Red Hat
OpenStack builds available, as soon
as possible, in their own
environment.
● Simplifies the upgrade progress by
testing incremental changes.
● Focus debugging efforts on the
subset of the code that has changed.
● Tooling for continuous Certification
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
PRODUCT AND PROJECT BENEFITS
● Provides automated feedback to Red
Hat with helpful logs.
● Better awareness of production
scenarios
● Expand the CI reach to 100s of
environments
● Enhance Red Hat Partnerships and be
the catalysts in the OpenStack
community
OPENSTACK SUMMIT BARCELONA

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DCI
Agent: https://github.com/redhat-cip/dci-agent
Server: https://github.com/redhat-cip/dci-control-server
UI: https://github.com/redhat-cip/dci-ui
IS THIS OPEN SOURCE?
SHOW ME THE SOURCE!
OPENSTACK SUMMIT BARCELONA

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