Code Search

The Hound code search engine is deployed in our infrastructure to service all OpenStack repositories.

At a Glance

Hosts:

• http://codesearch.openstack.org

Puppet:

• https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/puppet-hound/tree/
• system-config: modules/openstack_project/manifests/codesearch.pp

Projects:

• https://github.com/etsy/Hound

Bugs:

• https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/748
• https://github.com/etsy/Hound/issues

Resources:

• Hound README

Overview

Hound is configured to read projects from a config.json file that is automatically generated from the Gerrit projects.yaml, defined in the $::project_config::jeepyb_project_file variable in Puppet.

Maintenance

Hound uses ‘git pull’ to keep repos in sync. If a force push is ever used to correct an issue in a repo, then hound will not be able to pull or index those changes. The only way to detect this is to look in /var/log/hound.log. The error message looks like hound attempting to update the repo and getting a ‘remote host hung up’ message. The issue can be corrected by an infra-root removing the relevant hound data directory. Hound will re-clone with the new history.