CLI support for validations

The following section describes the options when running or listing the existing validations.

Running validations

Validations can be executed by groups or individually. The current CLI implementation allows to run them using the following CLI options:

$ openstack tripleo validator run [options]

--plan, --stack: This option allows to execute the validations overriding the default plan name. The default value is set to overcloud. To override this options use for example:

$ openstack tripleo validator run --plan mycloud

--validation: This options allows to execute a set of specific validations. Specify them as <validation_id>[,<validation_id>,…] which means a comma separated list. The default value for this option is [].

For example you can run this as:

$ openstack tripleo validator run --validation check-ftype,512e

Running validation groups

--group: This option allows to run specific group validations, if more than one group is required, then separate the group names with commas. The default value for this option is [‘pre-deployment’].

Run this option for example like:

$ openstack tripleo validator run --group pre-upgrade,prep

--extra-vars: This option allows to add a dictionary of extra variables to a run of a group or specific validations.

$ openstack tripleo validator run \
              --extra-vars '{"min_undercloud_ram_gb": 24, "min_undercloud_cpu_count": 8}' \
              --validation undercloud-ram,undercloud-cpu

--extra-vars-file: This option allows to add a valid JSON or YAML file containing extra variables to a run of a group or specific validations.

$ openstack tripleo validator run \
              --extra-vars-file /home/stack/envvars.json \
              --validation undercloud-ram,undercloud-cpu

--workers, -w: This option will configure the maximum of threads that can be used to execute the given validation.

$ openstack tripleo validator run \
              --extra-vars-file /home/stack/envvars.json \
              --validation undercloud-ram,undercloud-cpu \
              --workers 3

Getting the list of the Groups of validations

To get the list of all groups used by tripleo-validations and get their description, the user can type the following command:

$ openstack tripleo validator group info

--format, -f: This option allows to change the default output for listing the validations. The options are csv, value, json, yaml or table.

$ openstack tripleo validator group info --format json

Getting a list of validations

Validations can be listed by groups and depending which validations will be listed, the output might be configured as a table, json or yaml. The user can list the validations using the following command:

$ openstack tripleo validator list [options]

--group: This option allows to list specific group validations, if more than one group is required, then separate the group names with commas.

$ openstack tripleo validator list --group prep,pre-introspection

--format, -f: This option allows to change the default output for listing the validations. The options are csv, value, json, yaml or table.

$ openstack tripleo validator list --format json

Getting detailed information about a validation

To get a full description of a validation, the user can run the following command:

$ openstack tripleo validator show dns

Getting the parameters list for a validation or a group of validations

To get all the available Ansible variables for one or more validations:

--validation: This options allows to execute a set of specific validations. Specify them as <validation_id>[,<validation_id>,…] which means a comma separated list. The default value for this option is [].

openstack tripleo validator show parameter --validation undercloud-ram,undercloud-cpu
{
    "undercloud-cpu": {
        "parameters": {
            "min_undercloud_cpu_count": 8
        }
    },
    "undercloud-ram": {
        "parameters": {
            "min_undercloud_ram_gb": 24
        }
    }
}

--group: This option allows to list specific group validations, if more than one group is required, then separate the group names with commas.

openstack tripleo validator show parameter --group prep
{
    "512e": {
        "parameters": {}
    },
    "service-status": {
        "parameters": {}
    },
    "tls-everywhere-prep": {
        "parameters": {}
    },
    "undercloud-cpu": {
        "parameters": {
            "min_undercloud_cpu_count": 8
        }
    },
    "undercloud-disk-space": {
        "parameters": {
            "volumes": [
                {
                    "min_size": 10,
                    "mount": "/var/lib/docker"
                },
                {
                    "min_size": 3,
                    "mount": "/var/lib/config-data"
                },
                {
                    "min_size": 3,
                    "mount": "/var/log"
                },
                {
                    "min_size": 5,
                    "mount": "/usr"
                },
                {
                    "min_size": 20,
                    "mount": "/var"
                },
                {
                    "min_size": 25,
                    "mount": "/"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "undercloud-ram": {
        "parameters": {
            "min_undercloud_ram_gb": 24
        }
    },
    "undercloud-selinux-mode": {
        "parameters": {}
    }
}

--download: This option allows to generate a valid JSON or YAML file containing the available Ansible variables for the validations.

To generate a JSON or YAML file containing for the variables of the undercloud-ram and undercloud-cpu validations:

openstack tripleo validator show parameter \
                                 --download [json|yaml] /home/stack/envvars \
                                 --validation undercloud-ram,undercloud-cpu

To generate a JSON or YAML file containing for the variables of the validations belonging to the prep and pre-introspection groups:

openstack tripleo validator show parameter \
                                 --download [json|yaml] /home/stack/envvars \
                                 --group prep,pre-introspection

--format, -f: This option allows to change the default output for listing the validations parameters. The options are json or yaml.