I am busy changing the world

For the last four weeks, we're working on hardening our multi-vision and preparing for the Open Infrastructure Summit in Denver this April [1]. The team had submitted one session to discuss and showcase our progress on implementing the multi-cloud features [2] and waiting for voting results. For the Denver summit, we decided to give a demonstration of Searchlight that has: Search resources across multiple OpenStack Clouds [3] Frontend UI that adds the views for multi-cloud search [4] So, from now to before the summit, we will focus on developing the [3] and [4] features for Searchlight. For more details about our multi-cloud vision for Searchlight, please have a look at [5]. Btw, It's the Lunar New Year now in Viet Nam. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! References: [1] https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/ [2]  https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/searchlight-denver-2019 [3] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004840 [4] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story...

I'd been focusing on the community work for the last two weeks. On 29th December, I went to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to organize the meetup with the VietOpenInfra group [1]. The event went great and I had a chance to discuss with people there about the future of Searchlight [2]. A roadmap for Searchlight was also drafted when I was at the meetup that said making Searchlight a universal search service for the cloud. My initial idea is to make Searchlight work with K8S, AWS, and Azure. With the new plan, I can also start writing the use cases for Searchlight and finish the Stein-2 milestone [3] the following week. Reference: [1] https://www.meetup.com/VietOpenStack/events/257277889/ [2]  http://bit.ly/2SwWXzz [3]  https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/searchlight-stein-ptg

I finished the tasks at work earlier this week so I can have free time to write this week report for Searchlight. The main focus of this week is to help Searchlight pass functional tests. After several attempts, I figured out that the functional tests fail because for some reasons ElasticSearch needs more time to start. So what I did is to tell the test set to wait 10 seconds before ElasticSearch to fully up and running [1]. I also updated some packages and simplified the test-setup.sh script by moving the jdk8 installation logic out to the bindep.txt [2] [3]. Looking deeper into the issue, I can observe that ElasticSearch has some strange behavior in the new test environment which is Ubuntu 18.04. The ElasticSearch installation task in the devstack test also fails [4]. I'm not sure what happened with the packages of Ubuntu but maybe we need to tune the test setup for ElasticSearch to make it work again. Anyway, we can merge new code of Searchlight now!! Yay!!! Reference:...

For the last 2 weeks, Stein R-19 and R-18, We're focusing on fixing a bug that fails most of Searchlight's functional tests. And, it's blocking Searchlight because if the tests are not passed, we can not merge anything new. We can identify the reason that is ElasticSearch instance for the functional tests cannot be started. I'm trying to tune the functional test setup [1] to make it work but seems there is still more work to do. I also work with the people at the OpenStack Infrastructure to see what could be a real problem. Hopefully, we can fix it at the end of this week. [1]  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/622871/

The week after Stein-1 milestone is a little bit quiet. There are only some trivial fix on spec typos, tox version, etc.  The main target of Stein-2 milestone for Searchlight is to develop the use cases so that Searchlight can attract more users as well as contributors. The effort is lead by Thuy Dang [1]. Also, we need to keep up with the community's goal, the upgrade checker. The effort is being processed by the goal's champion [2]. I will review and merge the patch this week if it goes well. References: [1]  https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004178 [2]  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/613789/