Optionally migrate database at service startup

In some use cases, notably testing, it can be handy to do database
migrations when the web service starts up. This changes adds that
functionality, controlled by a [placement_database]/sync_on_startup
option that defaults to False.

When True, `migration.upgrade('head')` will be called before the
placement application is made available to the wsgi server. Alembic
protects us against concurrency issues and prevents re-doing already
done migrations.

This means that it is possible, with the help of oslo.config>=6.7.0
to do something like this:

    OS_PLACEMENT_DATABASE__CONNECTION=sqlite:// \
    OS_PLACEMENT_DATABASE__SYNC_ON_STARTUP=True \
    OS_API__AUTH_STRATEGY=noauth2 \
    .tox/py36/bin/placement-api

and have a ready to go placement api using an in-RAM sql database.

A reno is added.

Change-Id: Ie43a69be8b75250d9deca6a911eda7b722ef8648

placement/conf/database.py

@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ def get_db_opts():
         help=''),
     cfg.IntOpt('pool_timeout',
         help=''),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('sync_on_startup',
+        default=False,
+        help='If True, database schema migrations will be attempted when the'
+             ' web service starts.'),
 ]  # noqa
 
 

placement/db_api.py

@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@
 
 
 def _get_db_conf(conf_group):
-    return dict(conf_group.items())
+    conf_dict = dict(conf_group.items())
+    # Remove the 'sync_on_startup' conf setting, enginefacade does not use it.
+    del conf_dict['sync_on_startup']
+    return conf_dict
 
 
 @run_once("TransactionFactory already started, not reconfiguring.",

placement/deploy.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 from oslo_middleware import cors
 
 from placement import auth
+from placement.db.sqlalchemy import migration
 from placement import db_api
 from placement import fault_wrap
 from placement import handler
@@ -91,10 +92,12 @@ def deploy(conf):
     return application
 
 
-def update_database():
+def update_database(conf):
     """Do any database updates required at process boot time, such as
     updating the traits table.
     """
+    if conf.placement_database.sync_on_startup:
+        migration.upgrade('head')
     ctx = db_api.DbContext()
     resource_provider.ensure_trait_sync(ctx)
     resource_provider.ensure_resource_classes_sync(ctx)
@@ -117,5 +120,5 @@ def loadapp(config, project_name=NAME):
                          backwards compatibility
     """
     application = deploy(config)
-    update_database()
+    update_database(config)
     return application

placement/tests/fixtures.py

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def generate_schema_create_all(self, engine):
         self.cleanup()
 
         # Sync traits and resource classes.
-        deploy.update_database()
+        deploy.update_database(self.conf_fixture.conf)
 
     def cleanup(self):
         resource_provider._TRAITS_SYNCED = False

releasenotes/notes/db-auto-sync-e418f3f181958c7c.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    A configuration setting ``[placement_database]/sync_on_startup`` is added
+    which, if set to ``True``, will cause database schema migrations to be
+    called when the placement web application is started. This avoids the need
+    to call ``placement-manage db sync`` separately.
+
+    To preserve backwards compatbility and avoid unexpected changes, the
+    default of the setting is ``False``.