[Ci-users] Introducing python-cicoclient: A library and CLI to admin.ci.centos.org

Sat Nov 21 06:10:01 UTC 2015
David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com>

Ansible module is out. It's included in python-cicoclient.
Available through github, pip and copr.

Doc: http://python-cicoclient.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ansible_usage.html

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:00 AM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
> Like Karan said, you can filter the hosts that inventory will return by
> setting your API key.
>
> There's two things I discussed with the CI team that I would like to do
> eventually:
> 1) See the "age" of the machines (time since deploy)
> 2) Being able to set the comment field when requesting nodes instead of it
> being automatically set to the ssid. This would allow us to set, for
> example, the job name and build number as comment. This effectively requires
> adding a ssid field because the only place you can find it is in the comment
> field.
>
> 1 and 2 would help you achieve what you're looking for :)
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>
> On Nov 19, 2015 6:31 PM, "Ben Kero" <bkero at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just took a look at the 'cico inventory' output, and find it super
>> useful. The one piece of information that I see as missing though is which
>> user checked out a node.
>>
>> One of my primary uses for the module would be to see if I have any nodes
>> that got stuck and need returned.
>>
>> To do that I would like to see a 'user' column so that I can find the ones
>> that say 'openstack-puppet'. :)
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 4:36 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I took a first stab at this, I think it makes sense ? It looks like it
>>> works on my end.
>>> The spec file is here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/dmsimard/python-cicoclient/blob/master/python-cicoclient.spec
>>>
>>> I made it build through copr as well:
>>>
>>> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dmsimard/python-cicoclient/build/139669/
>>>
>>>
>>> David Moreau Simard
>>> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>>>
>>> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 5:33 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > In the meantime you have the next best thing on PyPi but I do want to
>>> > package it as rpm eventually.
>>> >
>>> > Here, I just formalized it in the first-ever issue on github [1]
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for the feedback.
>>> >
>>> > [1]: https://github.com/dmsimard/python-cicoclient/issues/1
>>> >
>>> > David Moreau Simard
>>> > Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>>> >
>>> > dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>
>>> > wrote:
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>>> >> On 13/11/15 21:19, David Moreau Simard wrote:
>>> >>> Heya,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I read the docs, the mailing lists and glanced over the various
>>> >>> scripts out there and was convinced there had to be a better way
>>> >>> than using curl to communicate with admin.ci.centos.org.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Introducing python-cicoclient: - Github:
>>> >>> https://github.com/dmsimard/python-cicoclient - PyPi:
>>> >>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-cicoclient/ - Docs:
>>> >>> http://python-cicoclient.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I broke down this package in three main components: - client.py:
>>> >>> Abstracts the http stuff - wrapper.py: Uses client.py to wrap
>>> >>> around the available API calls and provide a consistent user
>>> >>> experience - shell.py/cli.py: Provide a CLI interface around
>>> >>> wrapper.py
>>> >>>
>>> >>> It can be used as both a CLI client with the provided 'cico'
>>> >>> binary but also as a library - you can easily import wrapper and
>>> >>> roll your own thing.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Feel free to use it, contribute and provide feedback !
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Please note that as of right now, there is a problem with the
>>> >>> "node get" command due to an upstream bug, documented here:
>>> >>> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9748 Please do not use "node
>>> >>> get" until this bug is fixed :)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> David Moreau Simard Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>>> >>>
>>> >>> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>>> >>
>>> >> Looks very promising !
>>> >> Wondering if then we can have a .spec, and build/deploy it as rpm
>>> >> within the CI env, on the jenkins slave nodes, so that people would
>>> >> have an alternative.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> - --
>>> >> Fabian Arrotin
>>> >> The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
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>> --
>> Ben Kero
>> RedHat, Engineer, OPM-CI