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

[Yuvi Panda]

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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