Openstack node provide fails for containerized undercloud

[Bogdan Dobrelya]

When running an OVB (WIP) fs001 CI job for containerized undercloud [0] with the introspection fixes (WIP) [1] applied, the command fails:

$ openstack overcloud node provide --all-manageable

The failure message https://pastebin.com/JRCxxuQ1

The related patches https://review.openstack.org/#/c/546663/ are about to help partially fixing that prolly.

[0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/542556
[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/550100

[Dmitry Tantsur (divius)]

This is a combination of two problems:
1. we have full cleaning enabled, which may take hours, we need metadata cleaning instead,
2. our workflows do not properly error out on timeouts; this https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-common/blob/master/workbooks/baremetal.yaml#L23-L29 will continue successfully after timeout is reached

[Dmitry Tantsur (divius)]

The fix for #1 is https://review.openstack.org/#/c/551240/

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/551240
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/commit/?id=198d66ab2a8973fbbd353c150399dfca2fb75a36
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: master

commit 198d66ab2a8973fbbd353c150399dfca2fb75a36
Author: Dmitry Tantsur <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Mar 9 11:14:34 2018 +0100

    undercloud: enable only metadata cleaning

    We plan on disabling automated cleaning by default, but when it's
    enabled, we only need the metadata cleaning, because the full secure
    cleaning takes hours when secure ATA erase is not supported.

    Partial-Bug: #1754609
    Change-Id: Icd8b86a7ab3cff21efb113cb58bd6690cd29a03c

[Adriano Petrich (apetrich)]

At the point that I'm in the introspection changes have been merged and I'm trying to test https://review.openstack.org/#/c/542556/102 and getting some pretty dismal results:

I've bumped into some issues with undercloud install, some of them are:

/home/zuul/undercloud-passwords.conf was read only for root as in:
4 -rw-------. 1 root root 2064 Apr 4 14:34 undercloud-passwords.conf
the same for some other files like
-rw-------. 1 root root 1163 Mar 10 16:47 /usr/libexec/os-apply-config/templates/etc/os-collect-config.conf

and even then I was only able to make an undercloud install with --use-heat

still trying to get to the introspection state

[Adriano Petrich (apetrich)]

Forget #4 I was able to retry twice and didn't get any errors. So it might have been some transient problem.

[Adriano Petrich (apetrich)]

Fix solved by other patches like comment #2 #3