Devstack plugin support¶

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/heat-support-devstack-plugin

DevStack supports a standard mechanism for including plugins from external repositories. So add devstack plugin for heat.

Problem description¶

Devstack support external plugins as documented here: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/plugins.html By enabling this plugin, we just need to properly set up devstack local[rc] file to be able to setup heat. A good example is ironic one: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:ironic-devstack-plugin

Proposed change¶

Introduce devstack plugin.

An external git repository that includes a devstack/ top level directory. Inside this directory there can be the following files:

    devstack/
        override-defaults
        settings
        plugin.sh
        lib/

plugin.sh is the actual plugin. It is executed by devstack at well defined
points during a stack.sh run.

Plugins are registered by adding the following to the localrc section of
local.conf. They are added in the following format::

    [[local|localrc]]
    enable_plugin heat https://git.openstack.org/openstack/heat

The detailed introduction is here: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/plugins.html

Steps to support devstack plugin in heat.

step1: Copy devstack code to heat tree.

step2: Add devstack plugin This adds the actual devstack plugin, devstack should not run the heat code in the devstack tree.

step3: Add a heat job to use devstack plugin. After heat has a devstack plugin in tree. Make a job to be able to test that it works, non-voting, before we actually switch everything over and drop the devstack code.

step4. Switch all heat jobs to use devstack plugin

step5. Remove heat code from project openstack-dev/devstack

Alternatives¶

Implementation¶

Assignee(s)¶

Primary assignee:: dixiaoli <dixiaobj@cn.ibm.com>

Milestones¶

Target Milestone for completion:: newton-1

Work Items¶

Copy devstack code to heat tree.
Add devstack plugin
Switch all heat jobs to use devstack plugin
Remove heat code from project openstack-dev/devstack

Devstack plugin support