tbechtold

py2pack (https://github.com/saschpe/py2pack) is used to create rpm packages from python modules. Would be great if py2pack can also update an existing package (download new version, update spec file, check requirements, ...)

OpenStack uses Puppet to setup the whole CI (see http://ci.openstack.org/). Adjust the puppet manifests to be able to deploy the manifests on openSUSE and learn more about the setup.

Crowbar is used to automate the installation process of SUSE Cloud. Manila is the "shared filesystem asa service" project for OpenStack. To simplify the installation of Manila, create a new barclamp. This was already started some weeks ago. Current code is at: https://github.com/toabctl/barclamp-manila

Currently there is an internal OpenStack instance (cloud.suse.de). Most of the images there are outdated so it's common that everybody just uploads a new image. Would be nice to have a tool which updates at least the most common images (SLE11&12, openSUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora) automatically once a day. So ater spawning a new VM, there would be no need to first update (and maybe reboot) the machine or upload a new image before you can start to work.

Currently we have only packages for python2 but OpenStack is starting to work with Python3 so we need python3 packages and try to get it working.

Currently there is Monasca which can be used for monitoring an OpenStack cloud. But outside of the OpenStack world, Prometheus seems to be used more often.

py-spy is a python profiler (similar to pyflame (which is unmaintained)). The profiler can be used to create profiling data for running processes. This might be useful to find bottlenecks in OpenStack services.

The SES team already has code to spawn nodes in OVH (OpenStack public cloud) and to register the spawned node as a Jenkins worker. Do something similar for AWS and make it generic so it can be used by others, too.