#ansible-network: network_breakout

Meeting summary

1. collections (dmellado, 18:50:54)
   1. bluejeans link https://bluejeans.com/7480904391/ (dmellado, 18:51:00)
   2. starting on bluejeans (dmellado, 19:00:40)
   3. https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ansible-summit-atlanta-2019-networking is the agenda notes (Qalthos, 19:01:33)
   
   
2. network collections (dmellado, 19:02:46)
   1. available collections for arista, cisco, junos, vyos and others (dmellado, 19:03:02)
   2. network_cli and netconf (dmellado, 19:03:09)
   3. available at https://github.com/ansible-network (dmellado, 19:04:33)
   4. automated by https://github.com/ansible-network/network_content_collector (dmellado, 19:05:47)
   5. tested by ansible network zuul as well (dmellado, 19:06:13)
   6. developing collections - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#developing-collections (dmellado, 19:10:36)
   7. using collections - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/user_guide/collections_using.html (dmellado, 19:10:49)
   8. same testing, refer to zuul dashboard: https://dashboard.zuul.ansible.com/t/ansible/status (dmellado, 19:11:41)
   9. showing zuul dashboard at bluejeans (dmellado, 19:14:32)
   10. https://paste.gnome.org/psdhsvev9 (eramirez, 19:23:03)
   11. https://paste.gnome.org/pjzjbkvth (eramirez, 19:24:01)
   12. network-content-collector, great way to start with a new platform (dmellado, 19:28:37)
   13. brad and paul talking about an example of adding dell using network-content-collector (dmellado, 19:30:29)
   14. andriusb speaking about vendors and release cadence (dmellado, 19:39:13)
   15. jamesc explaining about spec and playbooks in collections (dmellado, 19:45:44)
   
   
3. httpapi (dmellado, 19:47:12)
   1. Qalthos speaking about httpapi (dmellado, 19:47:32)
   
   
4. resource module builder (dmellado, 19:54:06)
   1. resource module builder docs - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/network/dev_guide/developing_resource_modules_network.html (samccann, 19:54:22)
   2. code available at https://github.com/ansible-network/resource_module_builder (dmellado, 19:54:44)
   3. brad introducing RMB (dmellado, 19:56:25)
   4. brad explains the main states of rmb modules (dmellado, 20:01:16)
   
   
5. facts modules and subsystem (dmellado, 20:07:19)
   1. trishna introduces the rmb facts tooling (dmellado, 20:07:31)
   2. brad and trishna explains how the rmb models work (dmellado, 20:18:06)
   
   
6. zuul (dmellado, 20:31:38)
   1. https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/ (dmellado, 20:31:56)
   2. we migrated from DCI to zuul, which allows for multi-repo dependencies, among another cool features (dmellado, 20:32:23)
   3. based on yaml and python, and used first in production at openstack (dmellado, 20:32:40)
   4. pre-merge testing now supported (dmellado, 20:33:28)
   5. multi-region testing, clouds such as vexxhost or limestone (dmellado, 20:34:44)
   6. multi-node testing, support several qcow/appliances from several versions (dmellado, 20:35:21)
   7. ansible-networking integration testing all runs in zuul (dmellado, 20:35:56)

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People present (lines said)

1. dmellado (84)
2. eramirez (15)
3. zodbot (10)
4. rharolde (6)
5. samccann (5)
6. ganeshrn (4)
7. Qalthos (2)
8. UjwalKomarla (2)
9. justjais (0)
10. pabelanger (0)