There is also a draft PR available now: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/28837 Am 02.07.19 um 12:51 schrieb Sebastian Wagner: > All, > > especially in the Ceph Orchestrator world, we're facing an issue where > we don't have a place for for Python code that can be imported by the > MGR and by tools that deploy Ceph. > > Having a Library for common Python code would also provide a way to ease > some other Python related problems (also orchestrator independent): > > 1. There is duplicated code in the cython bindings. Especially the > Exceptions are duplicated for each binding. > > 2. There is no good way to share Python code between different tools > written in Pyhton > > 3. There is no way to share common code, like e.g. common data > structures between the different layers of the Orchestrator stacks. > > 4. There is no statically type-checkable Python API for the (mon) > command API. > > 5. The local Ceph version number is hard coded into the ceph cli binary > > Now, the idea is to build a new Python package that is supposed to be > importable by everyone. > > From a user's POV, this would look something like > >> >> from ceph.mon_command_api import MonCommandApi >> from ceph.deployment_utils import DriveGroupSpec >> from ceph.exceptions import Error >> >> MonCommandApi(...).osd_pool_create(pool='my_pool', ...) >> >> try: >> ... >> except OSError: >> ... > > What would be the scope of this library? Basically everything where > there is a real benefit for having it included, like sharing common code > between things. From the orchestrator, this could include common > deployment recipes. Or recipes used by the SSH orchestrator. > > Some open questions are: > > What about code that right now lives in the dashboard, like > pybind/mgr/dashboard.controllers.rbd.Rbd#_rbd_disk_usage > for calculating the RBD disk usage? > > Where does it live in the ceph git? /src/python-common/ ? > > How can we package it? > > Python 2? > > Thanks, > Sebastian > -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx
