12:58:55 #startmeeting Weekly Technical Discussion 12:58:55 Meeting started Mon Jun 24 12:58:55 2019 UTC. The chair is bh526r. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 12:58:55 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 12:58:55 The meeting name has been set to 'weekly_technical_discussion' 12:59:05 #topic Roll Call 12:59:11 #info Bin Hu 12:59:47 #info Cedric Ollivier 13:00:00 #info Mark Shostak 13:00:11 #info Greg Oberfield 13:00:20 #info Sridhar Rao 13:00:43 #info Matt McEuen 13:00:52 #info Trevor Cooper 13:02:09 #info Cédric Ollivier 13:02:32 #info Al Morton 13:02:39 #info Georg Kunz 13:04:08 #topic Continue to Discuss New Project Proposal "Airship-based Infrastructure Deployment and Lifecycle Management" 13:04:29 #link https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/PROJ/Project+Proposals+Airship 13:04:41 Al Morton 13:04:54 #info Trevor Cooper 13:05:15 #info Greg Oberfield from AT&T gave an update of resolved comments after communicating with stakeholders 13:05:36 #info Two major comments/comments are addressed 13:06:42 #info First major comment/concern: "Why multiple Installers and how to address fragmentation issues in the past?" 13:10:06 #info Greg and team communicated community, and explained that the root cause of prior fragmentation issue is lacking a standard definition of NFVi 13:10:19 #info Mark Beierl 13:10:45 #info Cedric full agrees that multiple installers is not an issue at all 13:11:20 #info The main issue is lacking common definition, and loses lots of end users 13:11:43 #info Daniel Balsiger 13:12:08 #info Pierre Lynch 13:12:16 #info Parth 13:13:02 #info Cedric asked why Airship cannot be merged with XCI, and MaaS 13:13:56 #info #info Matt explained that Airship 1.0 used MaaS for bare metal provisioning, which was the best tool at that time 13:14:50 #info With Airship 2.0 work in progress, we are going to leverage k8s Cluster API for bare metal provisioning 13:15:20 #info i.e. metal3 project, and lots of plugins for AWS, Google cloud etc. 13:15:38 #info The 1st driver to leverage is Ironic 13:16:00 #info And Kubeadm support as tooling for k8s itself 13:16:26 #info We are behind those projects for k8s cluster for bare metal provisioning 13:17:36 #info Lots of installers there, e.g. Ansible/Kubespray/Bifrost in XCI, and Airship isn't intended to support other installers, which is out of scope of mission of Airship 13:17:56 #info Each installer can focus on its good, and particular use cases 13:18:22 #info Cedric agreed that we shouldn't merge them together 13:19:07 #info Greg agreed to add this point in presentation why XCI and Airship are not appropriate to merge together 13:23:42 #info Continue to capture the resolved comments from Greg's update slides: 13:24:16 #info Re: multiple installers: multiple installers bring more choices for end users, and encourages technological innovation 13:24:45 #info With standard definition of common NFVi, all installers will implement it with the same result. Thus fragmentation issue goes away. And end users will have more choices when shopping on market 13:25:16 #info Team will ensure level playground of all technologies / installers – no privilege for any installer or technology 13:25:49 #info 2nd Resolved comments "How to add new features in Airship, e.g. DPDK, and bring new resources?" 13:26:19 #info All new feature work in Airship is happening in OpenStack: 13:26:54 #link https://airship.atlassian.net/projects/AIR/issues 13:27:16 #info DPDK, Tungsten Fabric etc. is happening in OSH, and brought to Airship on June 18 to bring new NFV features (upstream) 13:27:33 #info Features are market-driven. Business will invest resources if they see ROI, i.e. benefit end users. 13:27:52 #info Airship 2.0 is modular design, e.g. something for host provisioning + Airship for workloads on top of cluster 13:29:48 #info Because Manuel is on vacation and absent from discussion today but he made comments last week, Bin indicated that team communicated with Manuel offline and resolved his comments and concerns. Manuel agreed to move forward and bring Airship proposal for TSC creation review and approval. 13:31:30 #info Because no further comments, and all comments and concerns are resolved, group reaches consensus and agrees to recommend "Airship-based Infrastructure Deployment and Lifecycle Management" project proposal for TSC creation review and approval. 13:32:15 #topic AOB 13:32:35 #info Bin asked everyone to propose items for discussion for future meetings 13:32:45 #info Meeting adjourned 13:33:55 #endmeeting