I’ve been asked some questions about a recent change to nova that I am responsible for, and I thought it would be easier to address those in this format than trying to explain what’s happening in IRC. That way whenever someone compliments me on possibly the longest unit test name ever written, I can point…
Category: OpenStack
The linux.conf.au 2016 Call For Proposals is open!
The OpenStack community has been well represented at linux.conf.au over the last few years, which I think is reflective of both the growing level of interest in OpenStack in the general Linux community, as well as the fact that OpenStack is one of the largest Python projects around these days. linux.conf.au is one of the…
Another Nova spec update
I started chasing down the list of spec freeze exceptions that had been requested, and that resulted in the list of specs for Kilo being updated. That updated list is below, but I’ll do a separate post with the exception requests highlighted soon as well. API Add more detailed network information to the metadata server:…
Kilo Nova deploy recommendations
What would a Nova developer tell a deployer to think about before their first OpenStack install? This was the question I wanted to answer for my linux.conf.au OpenStack miniconf talk, and writing this essay seemed like a reasonable way to take the bullet point list of ideas we generated and turn it into something that…
How are we going with Nova Kilo specs after our review day?
Time for another summary I think, because announcing the review day seems to have caused a rush of new specs to be filed (which wasn’t really my intention, but hey). We did approve a fair few specs on the review day, so I think overall it was a success. Here’s an updated summary of the…
Soft deleting instances and the reclaim_instance_interval in Nova
I got asked the other day how the reclaim_instance_interval in Nova works, so I thought I’d write it up here in case its useful to other people. First off, there is a periodic task run the nova-compute process (or the computer manager as a developer would know it), which runs every reclaim_instance_interval seconds. It looks…
Specs for Kilo, an update
We’re now a few weeks away from the kilo-1 milestone, so I thought it was time to update my summary of the Nova specifications that have been proposed so far. So here we go… API Add more detailed network information to the metadata server: review 85673. Add separated policy rule for each v2.1 api: review…
Specs for Kilo
Here’s an updated list of the specs currently proposed for Kilo. I wanted to produce this before I start travelling for the summit in the next couple of days because I think many of these will be required reading for the Nova track at the summit. API Add instance administrative lock status to the instance…
One week of Nova Kilo specifications
Its been one week of specifications for Nova in Kilo. What are we seeing proposed so far? Here’s a summary… API Add instance administrative lock status to the instance detail results: review 127139. Add more detailed network information to the metadata server: review 85673. Add separated policy rule for each v2.1 api: review 127863. Add…
Compute Kilo specs are open
From my email last week on the topic: I am pleased to announce that the specs process for nova in kilo is now open. There are some tweaks to the previous process, so please read this entire email before uploading your spec! Blueprints approved in Juno =========================== For specs approved in Juno, there is a…