Roadmap meeting Dec 05 2011 » History » Revision 62

Revision 61 (Romain Vrignaud, 12/05/2011 05:07 PM) → Revision 62/63 (Corey Osman, 12/05/2011 05:16 PM)

h1. Roadmap meeting 

 Please add your own wishlist here, we would review these topics during the meeting, Order has no meaning. 

 h2. Dec 05 2011 : 7pm UTC on #theforeman (Freenode) 

 h3. Important Issues to review 

 * Mcollective integration 
 * Pulp Admin integration 
 * Parameterized classes support (#832) 
 * Controlling the BMC through IPMI 
 ** control boot order 
 ** power controls 
 * Remove dependency of virt in foreman 
 ** make a more generic layer that allows for any 3rd party virtualization tools (ovirt, virt, libvirt, aws, fog, ...) 
 * ESX support 
 * Ruby version support 
 * create external service for 3rd party tools 
 ** wrapper service that acts as the middle man to talk to foreman and 3rd party tools 
 ** Can handle compatibility better  
 ** Better security 
 **** 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 
 * [[Password Encryption]]  
 * DB data versioning (Templates, parameters, etc - possibility to revert to a previous state)  
 * Cloud provisioning and unattended access/security related (#969) 
 * Audits to Hostgroups/Classes/Parameters/Provisioning should have be displayed on the Dashboard, perhaps with some Visualization? 
 * 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. 
 * Full working    unattended installations via proxy  
 * Support NonSql Databases (redis,mongo...) 
 * Add scheduling #1249 
 * Discuss about new UI in Foreman (from 0.3 -> 0.4) - Fixed size columns ... 
 * Discuss new SHA-512 passwords used (default) IN EL6 (foreman didn't seem to support it as last look) 
 * Bulk uploading client paramaters, rather than editing 1 field at a time for a new host, hostgroup, domain, etc. 
 * Alerting foreman that a host has completed provisioning when behind NAT 


 h3. Organizational topics 

 * Git and Release maintenance 
 * Packaging 
 * Puppet-Foreman deployment recipes - Isolate namespace (as in : http://bit.ly/sFabPs) ? Or not ? 
 * Bug/Feature reviews 

 h2. Dec 05 2011 : Report : 

 h3. Mcollective  

 # functionality exposed in UI : 

 * simple action : puppet kicks, services management 
 * handled by proxy 
 * optional 

 h3. Pulp / Katello 

 * Relation with Foreman should be more precise 
 * Katello doesn't support non RPM disto 
 * Maybe we could try a simple repo management 
 * Functionnality wished : 
 ** Assigning repo to host 
 ** Pull updated 
 * Mainly UI work 

 h3. BMC support 

 * Functionnality wished : 
 ** Power on/off 
 ** Boot order 
 * Should be handled by proxy using IPMI (freeIPMI ?) 
 * Look at otherproject : https://github.com/dellcloudedge/barclamp-ipmi 

 h3. Remove virt dependency 

 * Can not talk to 'a cloud' 
 * Dividing system into : 
 ** Physical 
 ** Virtual 
 * Major code refactoring 
 * Remove dependency on a particular gem and have 3d party integration (libvirt, virt, fog, ec2, ovirt) 

 h3. Password encrytion 

 * Use gpg encryption ? (maybe with hiera support) 
 * Store gpg encrypted sensitive information and decrypt it on the fly when used 
 * See http://rubygems.org/gems/attr_encrypted 

 h3. db versionning 

 * Maybe use GIT as a versionning backend 
 * Use only db versionning system 

 h3. Cloud unattended support 

 * proxy should handle unattended installation not foreman ? 
 * How to solve NAT problem 
 * Client should not talk to foreman during unattended installation 
 * We should track host deployed by foreman with an uuid 


 h3. Audits to Hostgroups/Classes/Parameters/Provisioning should be displayed on the Dashboard 

 * How to track puppet manifest modification 
 * Store puppet manifest in a VCS 

 h3. Redesign role management 

 * Creation of a role server 
 * Allow multiple hostgroup assignment to a signe host => to be discussed on the ML 

 h3. Git and release maintenance 

 * Maintain a contribution TODO list with : 
 ** Code related stuff 
 *** patches 
 *** code review 
 ** Non code related stuff 
 *** bug tracking and triage 
 *** testing 
 *** wiki update 
 *** packaging 
 *** git maint 

 * Packaging : 
 ** Deb and RPM : some help would be appreciated 

 h3. Installer / Puppet module 

 * Not easy to use in the first time 
 * Not so many people use the upstream module 
 * Isolate to foreman own namespace ? 

 h3. Scheduler 
 * have foreman assign a class or hostgroup based on a set date  
 * good for planned outage windows