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Web UI and dependencies added by it are beyond the updated scope of Rubick project (see README file for updates of scope). This change removes components of Web UI (front-end related code) and components of API service (celery, flask etc). Update README to reflect the current scope of Rubick project. blueprint decouple-ui Change-Id: I302626395c1a677871ac5154f2064bef400be3f1
Rubick
Rubick is a tool to analyze OpenStack installation for possible problems. It is a library that provides a representation of the OpenStack configuration and inspection/validation/analysis actions on that representation.
Config representation
The first step to create representation of OpenStack architecture and configuration is a collection of data from an installation of the platform. There are several ways to collect those data, including automated discovery from different sources. The most simple way is to parse pre-populated directory structure that contain configuration files of OpenStack services from different nodes in a cluster.
With more complicated discovery engines, it is possible that those files are collected automatically via SSH based on inspection of process list at every node listed in hypervisor inventory of OpenStack Compute service, and even more complicated scenarios. However, that is a scope of specialized discovery service which Rubick is not at the moment.
The next step is to organize all the colleced data into single data structure, called OpenStack configration model. This is an object model that includes physical nodes of the cluster, OpenStack services and their instances, configuration parameters, etc. See detailed description of the proposed model in the documentation.
Config analysis
Once the OpenStack configuration model is created, it could be used to validate the correctness of static OpenStack settings, as well as the dynamic state of OpenStack cluster.