Putting the fun back in OpenStack CI/CD pipelines with RHOSP and Gitlab
Introduction As a technical consultant, an important part of my daily activities is being able to develop code or customization for the customer I'm working with. Quite often, this means working extra hours in lab environments to make sure we have a 100% reliable, reproducible and idempotent software change. If you're worked with 'Red Hat OpenStack Platform' after version 7, you probably know that a Director-based deployment of RHOSP can be quite time-consuming and may involve some decent amount of trial-and-error. At the same time, if I only wanted to test a specific feature in a lab, it may take me a few hours to launch a complete environment to try that feature out. This was beginning to become very time-consuming, even with powerful hypervisors. So, I came up with the crazy idea to make my life easier and use a gitlab pipeline to deploy RHOSP so I didn't have to perform the pre-required steps manually. Defining the Production Chain Here's the pr