Bug 1399512

Description of problem: Pulp component is one of the components which generates cases resulting in negative customer unsatisfaction and frustration. It is also one of the components that engineers ned to spent a lot of time ojn

This bug is being opened as part of the Sat 6 Get well program and will be used to track Pulp issues

Some of the common bugs and generic issues are :

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223023: [RFE] Allow Pulp to force resync a repository
- hit by many customers
- basic robustness requirement


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374723:
[Improvement] prevent running pulp-manage-db when pulp workers are up
- without that, easy to corrupt pulp DB during upgrade
- Sat6.2 upgrades were affected by lack of it


(still) improve generate applicability task performance/scalability
- even in Sat6.2.4, pulp related tasks spend big deal of time in reg.app.
- either implement bz1309673 (make calculation incremental), or allow the tasks running in parallel (by celery workers)


(generic): supportability of pulp-admin?
- officially, we do not support the tool (it has some limitations/drawbacks)
- BUT we often use it as workarounds/diagnosis
- either make it "official" or replace by something else


(generic, not such prio, issue) - handle own exceptions better (than skipping them)
- worth logging what exception (that often means something wrong happened) happened
- example: bz1327522


(no bugzilla): get rid of mongodb in favour of a real (relational) DB
- pulp requires relational DB what mongo isnt (this affects also workarounds we offer to custs)
- unable to build DB schema for pulp database (affects investigation)
- I know about plans to migrate to psql, not sure the state


Actual results: High Resolution times, frustration from customers regarding functionality issues. not functional DB- mongodb . Buggy . need to use unofficial pulpadmin


Expected results: Lower resolution times, user and customer module, lesser bugs


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