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Roadmap meeting Dec 05 2011 » History » Version 58

Romain Vrignaud, 12/05/2011 04:48 PM

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h1. Roadmap meeting
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Please add your own wishlist here, we would review these topics during the meeting, Order has no meaning.
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h2. Dec 05 2011 : 7pm UTC on #theforeman (Freenode)
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h3. Important Issues to review
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* Mcollective integration
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* Pulp Admin integration
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* Parameterized classes support (#832)
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* Controlling the BMC through IPMI
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** control boot order
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** power controls
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* Remove dependency of virt in foreman
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** make a more generic layer that allows for any 3rd party virtualization tools (ovirt, virt, libvirt, aws, fog, ...)
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* ESX support
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* Ruby version support
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* create external service for 3rd party tools
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** wrapper service that acts as the middle man to talk to foreman and 3rd party tools
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** Can handle compatibility better 
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** Better security
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**** Security related issues, that so far have been handled outside Foreman, like restricting who can POST Reports and Facts. Ideally Foreman should handle them. #1169
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* [[Password Encryption]] 
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* DB data versioning (Templates, parameters, etc - possibility to revert to a previous state) 
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* Cloud provisioning and unattended access/security related (#969)
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* Audits to Hostgroups/Classes/Parameters/Provisioning should have be displayed on the Dashboard, perhaps with some Visualization?
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* host roles that were originally possible with puppet before adding the ENC.  Roles can be assigned to host or hostgroups with a (one-to-many) relationship.
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* Full working  unattended installations via proxy 
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* Support NonSql Databases (redis,mongo...)
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* Add scheduling #1249
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* Discuss about new UI in Foreman (from 0.3 -> 0.4) - Fixed size columns ...
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* Discuss new SHA-512 passwords used (default) IN EL6 (foreman didn't seem to support it as last look)
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* Bulk uploading client paramaters, rather than editing 1 field at a time for a new host, hostgroup, domain, etc.
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* Alerting foreman that a host has completed provisioning when behind NAT
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h3. Organizational topics
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* Git and Release maintenance
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* Packaging
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* Puppet-Foreman deployment recipes - Isolate namespace (as in : http://bit.ly/sFabPs) ? Or not ?
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* Bug/Feature reviews
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h2. Dec 05 2011 : Report :
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h3. Mcollective 
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# functionality exposed in UI :
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* simple action : puppet kicks, services management
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* handled by proxy
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* optional
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h3. Pulp / Katello
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* Relation with Foreman should be more precise
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* Katello doesn't support non RPM disto
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* Maybe we could try a simple repo management
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* Functionnality wished :
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** Assigning repo to host
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** Pull updated
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* Mainly UI work
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h3. BMC support
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* Functionnality wished :
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** Power on/off
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** Boot order
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* Should be handled by proxy using IPMI (freeIPMI ?)
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* Look at otherproject : https://github.com/dellcloudedge/barclamp-ipmi
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h3. Remove virt dependency
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* Can not talk to 'a cloud'
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* Dividing system into :
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** Physical
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** Virtual
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* Major code refactoring
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* Remove dependency on a particular gem and have 3d party integration (libvirt, virt, fog, ec2, ovirt)
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h3. Password encrytion
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* Use gpg encryption ? (maybe with hiera support)
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* Store gpg encrypted sensitive information and decrypt it on the fly when used
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* See http://rubygems.org/gems/attr_encrypted
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h3. db versionning
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* Maybe use GIT as a versionning backend
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* Use only db versionning system
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h3. Cloud unattended support
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* proxy should handle unattended installation not foreman ?
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* How to solve NAT problem
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* Client should not talk to foreman during unattended installation
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* We should track host deployed by foreman with an uuid
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h3. Audits to Hostgroups/Classes/Parameters/Provisioning should be displayed on the Dashboard
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* How to track puppet manifest modification
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* Store puppet manifest in a VCS
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h3. Redesign role management
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* Creation of a role server
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* Allow multiple hostgroup assignment to a signe host => to be discussed on the ML
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h3. Git and release maintenance
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* Maintain a contribution TODO list with :
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** Code related stuff
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*** patches
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*** code review
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** Non code related stuff
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*** bug tracking and triage
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*** testing
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*** wiki update
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*** packaging
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*** git maint