Branchless Tempest - Service Extensions¶

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tempest/+spec/branchless-tempest-extensions

This is the follow on work for branchless tempest for new service extensions that are added over the course of a release.

Problem description¶

In moving to branchless Tempest we’re now running Tempest across multiple OpenStack code branches. Today that’s icehouse and juno, however it will be icehouse, juno, kepler in the future.

What happens when a new extension is added to Nova in Juno, and tests in tempest are wanted for that part of the API? Today that test would fail because it could not pass icehouse.

Proposed change¶

The proposed change is to add another layer to the devstack-gate feature grid which specifies which extensions are supported at each release.

Today in the nova definition we’ve got

nova:
  base:
     services: [n-api, n-cond, n-cpu, n-crt, n-net, n-obj, n-sch]

This would imagine a world where the definition would look as follows

nova:
  base:
     services: [n-api, n-cond, n-cpu, n-crt, n-net, n-obj, n-sch]
  icehouse:
     compute-ext: [floating-ips, aggregates, ... ]

The non existence of an extensions list means assume ‘all’. It is also expected that you’d be able to specify ‘rm-compute-ext’ much like rm-services, so that you could do something as follows.

nova-cells:
  base:
    services: [n-cell]
    rm-compute-ext: [aggregates, hosts]

That would disable those nova extensions any time it was configured.

For this to function there needs to be changes in

devstack-gate
- to parse these additional stanzas and pass them down to devstack
devstack
- to take extension lists for projects and set the correct extensions up based on it
- to compute the ‘all’ case correctly for master (especially if we support the rm-compute-ext stanza)
- to set the correct tempest fields for enabled features when these map to feature flags.

Alternatives¶

Nova API microversions might obviate the need here in the branch case, as we’d be able to specify a specific test has a specific required version. However that wouldn’t solve the cells case.

Implementation¶

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Milestones¶

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Work Items¶

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Dependencies¶

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Branchless Tempest - Service Extensions