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#openstack-nova - 2017-03-31
19:23:13 JayF I think root is more reasonable... but it's unfortunate that it's not dictated
19:23:19 JayF someone, just tell me what to do :P
19:24:02 mriedem dictated by the user making the rescue request?
19:24:14 JayF dictated by a document, or something like that
19:24:25 mriedem because the admin on a windows rescue image is going to be Administrator, right?
19:24:31 JayF I just want to be told what right is, because there being no "right answer" means I have to document the hell out of it
19:24:45 JayF we don't support arbitrary rescue images in ironic's implementatino
19:24:59 JayF not really possible since we're implementing rescue as booting a ramdisk and configuring it
19:25:00 clarkb also you should be able to rescue windows with linux but the other direction is much harder
19:25:24 clarkb (there are even distros out there purpose built for this)
19:25:31 mriedem JayF: what are you going to do in the nova driver impl then? ignore the image ref passed in, or put the instance into error state?
19:25:49 JayF mriedem: ignore the one passed in, I think is how it's written
19:25:54 JayF mariojv: ^ you just looked at that patch, do you know?
19:25:55 sdague_ mriedem: ok, going through https://review.openstack.org/#/c/441692 with a deeper comb. While I realize that it probably isn't going to get done in Pike anyway, it does feel better on an expectation front to say that Pike is about getting an optional facility there for people to play around with instead of jumping all the way to recommended operating mode
19:26:19 JayF mriedem: I think we're happy doing whatever you think is right in that case, but imo ignoring the image request seems the sanest.
19:26:21 mriedem sdague_: isn't that what i said in there? i said a config option, disabled by default
19:26:35 mriedem JayF: that's not honoring the API...
19:26:49 JayF so you think we should put instance into error and raise an instance fault/
19:26:51 JayF ?
19:26:51 mriedem so i'm not sure if it's better to fault and say you can't do that, or just ignore it
19:27:07 JayF I mean, technically, it's borderline impossible for us to respect the api with bare metal
19:27:13 mriedem putting the instance into error state is maybe something we shouldn't do
19:27:26 mriedem so it's a question of ignore, or fault
19:27:30 sdague_ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/441692/3/specs/pike/approved/list-instances-using-searchlight.rst@15 ... definitely leans in a different direction
19:28:15 mriedem https://review.openstack.org/#/c/441692/3/specs/pike/approved/list-instances-using-searchlight.rst@48
19:28:21 mriedem "By default this path will be disabled."
19:28:34 JayF mriedem: I'll put a note on the nova patch for us to think about that case more explicitly -- right now we're trying to get the patches lined up to prove rescue working in tempest
19:29:08 mriedem JayF: fwiw, when you do boot from volume or attach a volume and provide a device name in the api, the libvirt driver totally ignores that device name and has since liberty
19:29:19 mriedem so we have some precedence for drivers ignoring the api
19:29:21 clarkb JayF: couldn't you publish a rescue image in glance that would be used if specified, and its up to use to figure it out if they specify something different?
19:29:27 JayF mriedem: prior are for ignoring the user, I'll take it :P
19:29:43 JayF clarkb: we're treating it similar to a provisioning ramdisk, configurable by operator/deployer only
19:30:05 JayF clarkb: and I would have to think hard about the security implications of letting an api end-user dictate an image to pxe boot
19:30:47 JayF clarkb: plus it's sorta ... setting up a user for failure. I'd rather ignore their image request than provide support for it, but have building an image that works be borderline impossible without special knowledge.
19:31:07 clarkb JayF: as a user of your APIs I really disagree on that last point
19:31:22 clarkb I'm really tired of clouds making bad decisions for me and forcing me to abide by them when there is no reason to
19:31:59 clarkb image upload is/was that same general problem. So what did people do they ran their own pxe servers and dd'd over ubuntu images with image that then booted pxe
19:32:54 JayF There /is/ a reason for it here: rescue is not some arbitrary image booted on a hypervisor, it's a ramdisk, that has to have proper hardware support, as well as a properly configured ironic-python-agent. As someone who has operated ironic clouds, I'm not sure I'd want any of my api users being able to pxe boot an arbitrary ramdisk on hardware
19:32:54 clarkb (it may make sense here but as a general rule I'm not a fan of it)
19:33:30 clarkb JayF: also fwiw I think your users likely can already pxe boot arbitrary ramdisks on hardware
19:33:47 clarkb (its a really common workaround for the I can't upload my own images problem)
19:34:00 JayF clarkb: not in an ironic configured for localboot only
19:34:16 JayF clarkb: they can localboot anything they want, but not pxe boot it directly from ironic's setup
19:34:28 clarkb JayF: you local boot the image that speaks pxe
19:34:54 JayF oh, I forgot the #1 reason why that likely shouldn't be allowed:
19:35:04 JayF we pxe boot the rescue ramdisk from an internal-use-only rescue network
19:35:14 JayF to flip it over to tenant networks before the rescue is complete
19:35:33 JayF so allowing arbitrary ramdisks to boot in rescue would be enabling a tenant to run arbitrary code inside your rescue network
19:35:43 JayF which would be a major security concern
19:45:46 openstackgerrit Matt Riedemann proposed openstack/nova master: Ensure reservation_expire actually expires reservations https://review.openstack.org/452300
19:50:22 openstackgerrit Matt Riedemann proposed openstack/nova master: Ensure reservation_expire actually expires reservations https://review.openstack.org/452300
20:01:21 openstackgerrit Anusha Unnam proposed openstack/nova master: Add description to policies in security_groups.py https://review.openstack.org/452309
20:15:42 leakypipes dansmith: is there such a thing as a cells.json file?
20:16:03 dansmith leakypipes: um, what?
20:16:20 leakypipes can you pop into #openstack-helm right quick?
20:16:25 leakypipes dansmith: ^^
20:16:27 leakypipes as superdan :)
20:44:58 openstackgerrit Matt Riedemann proposed openstack/nova master: Reraise reservation commit/rollback errors if not self-healing https://review.openstack.org/452319
20:51:41 mriedem wow there was a whole lot of nothing going on in there
21:04:46 openstackgerrit Scott Moser proposed openstack/nova master: Limit exposure of network device types to the guest. https://review.openstack.org/400883
21:15:35 pramodrj07 Hey All,
21:21:51 pramodrj07 Can anyone help me in understanding the differnece between security groups in nova and sg in neutron?
21:22:51 mriedem pramodrj07: security groups in nova are tied to nova-network, which has been deprecated since the newton release
21:23:17 pramodrj07 Oh cool! Thanks for clarification
21:23:26 mriedem the security group resource APIs were deprecated in the 2.36 microversion
21:24:14 mriedem you can provide security groups when creating a server, and nova will associate the security groups with ports that are attached to the server when creating it
21:24:33 mriedem assuming the network that the port is on enables port security
21:25:04 pramodrj07 Oh ok! So the latest cli client will call neutron security group API when we try to create a sg!?
21:26:27 mriedem which cli? nova boot or openstack server create?
21:26:45 pramodrj07 openstack security group create
21:26:55 pramodrj07 yes Openstack one
21:27:03 mriedem that is openstackclient and will use neutron if there is a network service type in the service catalog
21:28:57 pramodrj07 Oh ok! Gotcha!
21:30:49 pramodrj07 i am extending a plugin for rally to create sgs along with sg rules for neutron. I saw a similar scenario developed for nova. So wanted a clarification!
21:30:58 pramodrj07 Thanks a lot mriedem
21:31:47 mriedem yw
22:40:23 openstack Launchpad bug 1678326 in OpenStack Compute (nova) "Quota is decremented during instance delete in cell0 even if the instance destroy fails" [High,Triaged] - Assigned to Matt Riedemann (mriedem)
22:40:23 mriedem melwitt: here is the bug for the quota commit/rollback thing in the api https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1678326
22:40:28 mriedem long-time coming on writing that
22:41:31 mriedem i don't have a good way of writing a regression test for that one really, unless i stub out instance.destroy() to raise InstanceNotFound to simulate concurrent deletes
22:41:43 melwitt mriedem: thanks for writing that up
22:42:38 melwitt I'm trying to remember how does the instance destroy fail
22:43:20 mriedem it could happen with concurrent delete requests couldn't it?
22:43:56 melwitt I just can't remember what happened to where we figured this out
22:46:04 mriedem idk, it was copied from _delete_while_booting
22:46:15 mriedem which was copied from _delete
22:46:26 mriedem which checks for that here https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/88bc8dc5ce32748452c9d3acda9f35e77fedb6ce/nova/compute/api.py#L1806
22:47:56 mriedem sorry wrong link there
22:48:01 openstack Launchpad bug 1670627 in OpenStack Compute (nova) ocata "quota is always in-use after delete the ERROR instances " [Critical,In progress] - Assigned to Matt Riedemann (mriedem)
22:48:01 melwitt looks like int32bit described it in a comment on https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1670627 but didn't say how delete failed
22:48:09 mriedem https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/88bc8dc5ce32748452c9d3acda9f35e77fedb6ce/nova/compute/api.py#L2025
22:48:59 melwitt sorry, krims0n32 is the lp name
22:49:08 mriedem yeah i was wondering about that
22:49:34 mriedem anyway, the old old code just says # NOTE(comstud): Race condition. Instance already gone.
22:49:38 mriedem again, this is all comstud's fault
22:49:55 openstack Launchpad bug 1670627 in OpenStack Compute (nova) ocata "quota is always in-use after delete the ERROR instances " [Critical,In progress] - Assigned to Matt Riedemann (mriedem)
22:49:55 melwitt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1670627/comments/27
22:50:05 melwitt heh
22:50:34 mriedem 2012 so who knows https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/c729ba8c0aa4d283e84d139bc98e0e89fd933c4a
22:50:45 mriedem seemed like a good idea at the time

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