Testing OpenStackSDK/OSC on real clouds

[Mohammed Naser]

Hi Artem,

We’re more than happy to provide an account assuming you don’t already have
one!

Thanks,
Mohammed

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 7:23 AM Artem Goncharov <artem.goncharov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Last years of my work on OpenStackSDK and CLI on one hand and being
> representative of a public cloud on the other hand made clear to me that
> not a single OpenStack cloud behaves like another one, doesn’t matter what
> you do and how hard you try. And sadly Interop is not helping here at all.
> The API calls you use to talk with one public cloud are guaranteed to work
> slightly differently on another one. This is clearly visible through the
> Storyboard of SDK, IRC and other offline discussions. Lot of customers are
> capable to work without issues with SDK/CLI on their cloud, while others
> report the same things are not working for them.
>
> This is a relatively complex discussion and Clark reserved a slot in the
> TC meeting during PTG https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/tc-2023-1-ptg#L38 to
> describe his stake in the problem.
>
> For a quite some time I am trying to follow an approach of having
> possibility to run functional tests of both SDK and CLI on real clouds and
> not only on devstack (on devstack things are working fine but it means as
> much as nothing at all in real life). On multiple occurrences I was asking
> for credentials and I got at the moment credentials for 2 public clouds.
> This already helped both to find issues in SDK (i.e. RADOSGW != Swift) as
> well as to point clouds on real issues on their side. It should be actually
> in the interest of those clouds to have some useful checks that give
> guarantee to their users SDK and CLI (ideally also Ansible/TF) are working
> fine. This is even a better form of interoperability check than anything
> else what we have now.
>
> Since people in this ML are involved in maintaining resource donations to
> OpenDev I would like to ask you to consider allocating cloud credentials
> for the SDK/CLI team to ensure things are running smoothly for your users
> (pls do not mix with allocating real resources - we need only cloud
> credentials to test APIs and there are no static resources required). At
> the moment I maintain those credentials manually until we finally get
> post-review pipeline created in OpenStack tenant to fully automate those
> tests.
>
> If you have questions or suggestions please feel free to post here, join
> SDK/CLI team during PTG on Friday 27.10 13:00-15:00 or contact me directly
> for clarifications.
>
> Thanks a lot for support,
> Artem
>
-- 
Mohammed Naser
VEXXHOST, Inc.
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