[Labs-admin] Replacing instance pages on Wikitech with a tool using the keystone/nova api

Mon Mar 27 13:36:31 UTC 2017

What's the thinking on making striker a more general portal where we could
fold this into it in some fashion? :D

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:

> DEATH TO SMW!
>
> I don't think anyone actually used those wiki pages as wiki pages.
>
> On Mar 25, 2017 6:12 PM, "Bryan Davis" <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I wanted to learn a bit about the keystone rest api, so I started
>> building a tool that would display things from it. One thing led to
>> another and I ended up building something that lists all projects in
>> our cluster and lets you see details on instances. Take a look at
>> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/keystone-browser/>.
>>
>> The success I've had made me think of
>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53642> and the quest to kill off
>> SMW. I think having project pages on wiki is a good thing, but this
>> tool could be used as a substitute for the SMW generated admin,
>> members, and instances lists in Template:Nova Project. That would also
>> let us stop creating, updating, and deleting the instance pages. The
>> instance view I've been able to create is not a 1-to-1 replacement for
>> the data that can be found in the current Nova_Resource:$FQDN pages,
>> but its not missing too much. Applied security groups and the physical
>> host running the VM are probably the most useful missing bits of data.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Bryan
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