Lack of tools in CentOS (and Fedora) for operators of large infrastructure/installations
Doesn’t fit in e.g. Cloud SIG
Home for these tools + bits and pieces to install/config infrastructure
E.g. if logging, there are good & bad examples of what to log, how to log, etc.
So provide a guide of how-to install each specific tool, what to watch, etc.
E.g. OpenStack installations log way too much, including things that are not errors but look like errors, so need some filtering afterwards.
Useful outside of each specific SIG.
Relationship with Config Mgmt SIG
Would provide manifests/playbooks/recipes/etc. To get tools installed would first look to existing sources in CentOS & SIGs.
Configs ultimately belong to the Config Mgmt SIG.
Working against duplicated efforts in tools stacks
Diff stacks of software reimplement or bring in the same tools
Use case: correlate logs amongst all these things
E.g. openshift on top of openstack, want to be able to correlate the logged error into each part of the stack - storage, underlying OS, orchestration, etc.
Give operators tools to do deep-cause analysis
KB - having ELK, graphon, etc. in the project helps on community side as we have a very operator-heavy base, many potential consumers.