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Document self-service workflow for setup of new machines

Added by livdywan 5 days ago. Updated 5 days ago.

Status:
Feedback
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
okurz
Category:
Feature requests
Target version:
openQA Project (public) - Ready
Start date:
Due date:
2025-04-09 (Due in 9 days)
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Tags:
infra, reactive work

Description

Motivation

Machines are newly setup or repurposed once in a while. Allowing individual squads to setup hardware themselves can help get things done quicker. However documentation on this process is sparse.

Acceptance Criteria

  • AC1: Members of squads other than QE Tools have access to documentation on how to setup hardware
  • AC2: Setup steps are documented in a way that can be easily looked up and linked to

Suggestions

  • Provide a template with steps to follow to setup new machines
    • How to setup IPMI and the according management web interface
    • Ensure access via QA engineering networks in DE, CZ, BJ
    • DNS hostname and zones
    • Setup of ipxe
    • Integration with OSD / salt / workerconf.sls
    • Jira SD ticket flow
    • Provide a reference test to validate the setup
  • Consider existing Setup guide for new machines
  • Docs for qe infra
  • Ask members of squads for feedback e.g. from QE Virt

Related issues 1 (1 open — 0 closed)

Copied from openQA Infrastructure (public) - action #179380: Finish fundamental setup for orion to serve as a vmware 7 server in OSD size:SBlockedokurz2025-03-242025-04-15

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Updated by livdywan 5 days ago

  • Copied from action #179380: Finish fundamental setup for orion to serve as a vmware 7 server in OSD size:S added
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Updated by okurz 5 days ago

  • Due date set to 2025-04-09
  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • Assignee set to okurz
  • Priority changed from Normal to Low
  • Target version set to Ready

What do you guys think we can do to improve? I think existing documentation e.g. https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/wiki/#Setup-guide-for-new-machines is already sufficient enough. The question is if people can discover the documentation.

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Updated by livdywan 5 days ago

okurz wrote in #note-2:

What do you guys think we can do to improve? I think existing documentation e.g. https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/wiki/#Setup-guide-for-new-machines is already sufficient enough. The question is if people can discover the documentation.

I don't think you are the target audience here to be honest. See AC1 😉

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Updated by okurz 5 days ago

livdywan wrote in #note-3:

okurz wrote in #note-2:

What do you guys think we can do to improve? I think existing documentation e.g. https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/wiki/#Setup-guide-for-new-machines is already sufficient enough. The question is if people can discover the documentation.

I don't think you are the target audience here to be honest. See AC1 😉

Exactly. That's why I am asking others for feedback. Who had problems finding documentation? Where did they look? And then we can say where they didn't look and maybe link back and forth

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