Display report in logs detailing installation status of requested operators

[bitscuit]

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Describe the solution you'd like After creating an OperandReqest, the status of each requested operator is only shown in the OperandRequest status field - ODLM logs do not indicate whether installation of these operators was successful or not. This leads to extra debugging time when installation is not successful because there could be multiple OperandRequests, so would need to look through all of them to determine which operator did not install properly.

ODLM logs should show a table with each row containing an operator from the OperandRequest and an indication successful or unsuccessful installation, e.g.:

Operator	Status
ibm-mongodb-operator	Installed
ibm-iam-operator	Error

Anything else you would like to add: An improved solution would be to also include installation status of CRs from each operator, e.g.:

Service	Status
ibm-mongodb-operator	Installed
ibm-mongodb-operator/MongoDB/ibm-mongodb	Installed
ibm-iam-operator	Installed
ibm-iam-operator/Authentication/example-authentication	Installed
ibm-iam-operator/OIDCClientWatcher/example-oidcclientwatcher	Error

But implementing this is challenging since not all CRs offer good status information

[gyliu513]

It would be great if we can also add reason and time elapsed here as well.

Service	Status	Reason	Time Elapsed
ibm-mongodb-operator	Installed
ibm-mongodb-operator/MongoDB/ibm-mongodb	Installed
ibm-iam-operator	Installed
ibm-iam-operator/Authentication/example-authentication	Installed
ibm-iam-operator/OIDCClientWatcher/example-oidcclientwatcher	Error

[gyliu513]

Related with https://github.com/IBM/operand-deployment-lifecycle-manager/issues/622

[Daniel-Fan]

I am wondering that whether it is possible to show the installation status in the events section of the ODLM instead of logs of pod. Currently we did not have info listed in the events section.

[gyliu513]

I was also wondering if we can print out the log periodically, so that we can always get the real time progress, and after install finished, print out a summary of install.

[bitscuit]

@Daniel-Fan

I am wondering that whether it is possible to show the installation status in the events section of the ODLM instead of logs of pod. Currently we did not have info listed in the events section.

I think events section should be reserved for information about ODLM pod itself, not information about the work it is doing

@gyliu513 for time elapsed, do you mean how long it took for operand to be installed/errored?

I was also wondering if we can print out the log periodically, so that we can always get the real time progress, and after install finished, print out a summary of install.

I think @horis233 mentioned we can print the log whenever ODLM tries to reconcile an OperandRequest.

[gyliu513]

@gyliu513 for time elapsed, do you mean how long it took for operand to be installed/errored?

@bitscuit Yes . But if we can support print the log periodically, then the state may not installed/errored, if maybe installing/pending etc, so for this case, the time elapsed just means the time for this state.

[gyliu513]

@horis233 @bitscuit how is this going?

[horis233]

@bitscuit Do you have any progress or a plan for this issue?

[bitscuit]

Sorry, I have not looked at this recently because of various release work. I can try to include it in the next dev sprint, but if anything more urgent comes up, this will be the first thing to be put on hold.

[horis233]

@bitscuit no worries. Take your time.

@gyliu513 I believe we can try to commit it in 2Q.