Puppet/New module
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Starting a new module
On the community side
Community wise, one should respect the following process to submit a new module
- Send a message to the mailing-list annoucing one's will to create a new puppet module for openstack, and wait for the thread to take place.
- Once a consensus is agreed upon on the mailing list the user can proceed further by doing two actions:
- Submit a review to openstack-infra/project-config to create the project (Add PTL and some core as reviewers)
- Submit a review to openstack/governance to state that the project is part of PuppetOpenstack (Add PTL and some core as reviewers)
For the governance addition please follow the process explained here: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/creators.html#add-new-repository-to-the-governance-repository
On the technical side
The community has developed two projects related to modules file management:
- puppet-openstack-cookiecutter (https://github.com/openstack/puppet-openstack-cookiecutter) : This project aims to help bootstrap a new puppet module that will be compliant with the community expectations (organization, naming, etc...). It takes user inputs and a project template and generate the skeleton of the modules.
- puppet-modulesync-configs (https://github.com/openstack/puppet-modulesync-configs) : This project aims to gather in a single repository the files that are common and need to be kept in sync across all openstack/puppet-* modules.
Why two projects? While modulesync makes it easy to keep a set of common file synced between projects (Gemfile, Rakefile, nodesets,...), it is not intented for dynamic content and path (class name, provider, etc...), hence the use of cookiecutter and the existence of both projects.
Modulesync: https://github.com/puppet-community/modulesync
Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
In practice
Requirements :
- cookiecutter
- modulesync (>= 0.5.0)
- git
- git-review
- digest
To make the boilerplating of a new Puppet module easier a script is provided. https://github.com/openstack/puppet-openstack-cookiecutter/blob/master/contrib/bootstrap.sh
What is does is the following
Step 1: Generate the skeleton of the module
It uses cookiecutter to generate the skeleton of the module.
Step 2: Retrieve the git repository of the project
It retrieves the official openstack repository of your project
Step 3: Create the initial commit with the file present in the skeleton
Reuse the .git from the openstack repository and make an initial commit of the file present in the skeleton directory
Step 4: Retrieve the puppet-modulesync-configs directory and configure it for your need
It clones the puppet-modulesync-configs directory and configure modulesync.yml and managed_modules.yml accordingly
Step 5: Run msync and amend the initial commit
It runs modulesync in noop mode and amend the commit from Step 3 with the files from puppet-modulesync-configs
At this point you should have generated a minimalist but functional module.
There are some things that cannot be automated and are marked via the FIXME tag. The impacted files are :
- manifests/keystone/auth.pp
- spec/classes/MYMODULENAME_keystone_auth_spec.rb
- README.md
Now one only have to run git review in the folder indicated in the output of the script
