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Why? While working on Citellus and Magui it soon became evident that Unit testing for validating the changes was a requirement. Initially, using a .travis.yml file contained in the repo and the free service provided by https://travis-ci.org we soon got https://github.com repo providing information about if the builds succeeded or not. When it was decided to move to https://gerrithub.io to work in a more similar way to what is being done in upstream, we improved on the code commenting (peer review), but we lost the ability to run the tests in an automated way until the change was merged into github. ...

Background Citellus allows to check a sosreport against known problems identified on the provided tests. This approach is easy to implement and easy to test but has limitations when a problem can span across several hosts and only the problem reveals itself when a general analysis is performed. Magui tries to solve that by running the analysis functions inside citellus across a set of sosreports, unifying the data obtained per citellus plugin. ...

Background Since I became Technical Account Manager for Cloud and later as Software Maintenance Engineer for OpenStack, I became officially part of Red Hat Support. We do usually diagnose issues based on data from the affected systems, sometimes from one system, and most of the times, from several at once. It might be controllers nodes for OpenStack, Computes running instances, IdM, etc In order to make it easier to grab the required information, we rely on sosreport. ...

InfraRed is tool that allows to install/provision OpenStack. You can find the documentation for the project at http://infrared.readthedocs.io. Also, developers and users are online in FreeNode at #infrared channel. Why InfraRed? Deploying OSP with OSP-d (TripleO) requires several setup steps for preparation, deployment, etc. InfraRed simplifies them by automating with ansible most of those steps and configuration. It allows to deploy several OSP versions Allows to ease connection to installed vm roles (Ceph, Computes, Controllers, Undercloud) Allows to define working environments so one InfraRed-running host can be used to manage different environments and much more… Setup of InfraRed-running host Setting InfraRed is quite easy, at the moment the version 2 (branch on github) is working pretty well. ...

Contributing to an OpenSource project might take some time at the beginning, the good thing with OpenStack is that there are lot of guides on how to start and collaborate. What I did is to look for a bug in the project tagged as low-hanging-fruit, this allows to browse a large list of bugs that are classified as easy, so they are the best place for new starters to get familiar with the workflow. ...