How OpenDev Tests Complete System Deployments with Zuul and Ansible
summary
OpenDev runs real production Ansible playbooks unchanged inside a Zuul + Ansible CI job by requesting ephemeral VMs from nodepool, mutating Zuul’s inventory into a nested-Ansible inventory, and deploying a full Grafana stack via an ephemeral Bastion host; runs a fake Let’s Encrypt CA, captures Selenium screenshots and systemd/docker logs as artifacts, and uses a build-set registry for speculative container images. The simulated deployment mirrors production so the actual production deploy is simpler and repeatable — the setup works and finds configuration issues before rollout.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Zuul and OpenDev
- 3:19Zuul and Ansible integration
- 4:46Simulating Grafana deployment
- 8:23Preparing simulated environment
- 10:30Test results and artifacts
- 13:01Production deployment simplicity
- 14:03Speculative container deployments
- 17:15OpenDev resources and Q&A
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