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#openstack-nova - 2019-10-30
21:02:33 efried yeah, "everyone" is probably still using api_servers, because we only added the standard ksa stuff in, I think, queens.
21:02:41 dansmith having to have a floating VIP and HA'ing services behind that VIP for everything really sucks
21:02:59 efried is tripleo using multiple endpoints to api_servers?
21:03:12 dansmith efried: just to be clear, "the ksa stuff" doesn't imply anything about multiple endpoints right?
21:03:15 dansmith efried: they are
21:03:19 melwitt efried: whoa, that is old. I can look at it again once I figure out what it's about again
21:03:37 dansmith efried: for glance, but we don't do the failover stuff, so not really for much gain
21:03:38 efried melwitt: thanks, I got a nudge from a downstream (not $employer) who needs it.
21:03:47 melwitt ack
21:04:02 efried dansmith: right, the way nova handles it really isn't HA-ish, it's more load-balance-ish.
21:04:29 dansmith efried: currently, right
21:04:51 efried dansmith: and no, "the ksa stuff" doesn't have anything for mulitiple endpoints... I don't think. (Can you put multiple endpoints in the service catalog?)
21:05:25 dansmith gah
21:05:30 efried dansmith: I can tell you this, cutting over to sdk to talk to glance, api_servers will have to be gone first.
21:05:46 dansmith brb
21:06:34 dansmith efried: I dunno about the service catalog, probably not
21:06:43 dansmith not saying that's a good thing, but.. :)
21:07:10 dansmith efried: okay so, can you put up a patch to deprecate it real quick so I can point people to it?
21:07:17 efried I'm going to have to nail down mordred for the more philosophical aspects of this.
21:07:20 dansmith efried: -W it if you want for completeness and comments or something
21:07:37 efried I can do that, yeah, though now you've got me doubting if we *should*.
21:07:38 dansmith efried: ack, we can blame lots of stuff on him like this
21:07:47 dansmith efried: that's fine, a place to collect feedback
21:07:50 efried ...
21:08:09 dansmith efried: the tripleo people can go voice their hate there if they want, or they may say "meh, okay, we can VIP this too" I honestly don't know
21:08:20 efried cool
21:08:39 dansmith efried: can you do that, like, uh, quickly so I can reply to someone quickly? :D
21:08:47 efried on it rn
21:08:52 dansmith spanks.
21:08:56 efried if people would stop bugging me in IRC.
21:12:57 efried dansmith: while you're waiting, I found this (search for api_servers) http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/queens/implemented/use-ksa-adapter-for-endpoints.html#proposed-change
21:13:47 dansmith "The exception is [glance]api_servers, which will continue to be supported."
21:14:51 dansmith I wonder if "valid_interfaces" is an arbitrary list, such that you could have internal1, internal2, internal3?
21:15:48 openstackgerrit Joshua Cornutt proposed openstack/nova master: Moving get_hash_str() from md5 to sha-256 https://review.opendev.org/615704
21:16:20 dansmith I also don't know how LBs (or HAproxy) handle a failed http session post-request.. meaning if I do a GET against glance and then the connection is reset after I've sent the GET, does the LB retry and re-play that against the next server?
21:16:24 mriedem dansmith: i think it might be, we've had to dig into the ksa code a few times to answer that
21:16:44 dansmith I'd kindof doubt it.. figure it'd fail the client, mark the server, next request doesn't include the bad server
21:16:56 dansmith which means if we don't retry we propagate the failure up
21:17:18 dansmith which is fine in the trivial case, but not so much when we're making multiple calls as part of a complex operation, like against cinder or neutron
21:17:39 dansmith mriedem: might be what, arbitrary?
21:17:45 dansmith or might be constrained?
21:18:32 dansmith based on the description in that spec, though, it tries them in order, so you'd hammer internal1 until it fails, and then try internal2, it sounds like
21:18:37 dansmith which wouldn't be what you'd want really
21:21:26 openstackgerrit Eric Fried proposed openstack/nova master: Deprecate [glance]api_servers https://review.opendev.org/692227
21:21:28 mriedem dansmith: i think valid_interfaces is arbitrary but i've had to look this up multiple times in the ksa code
21:21:28 efried dansmith: ^
21:21:38 dansmith efried: thanks
21:21:50 efried dansmith: no, valid_interfaces is public/private/internal only
21:21:59 efried I think they can have 'URL' suffixes for legacy reasons
21:22:01 mriedem also, on that note in the spec for api_servers, i want to say the godaddy or smorrison made a point that they still really needed that when the spec was being reviewed
21:22:48 dansmith mriedem: yeah, I *think* people are going to be quite unhappy about it, but we'll see
21:22:56 mriedem might have been in the ML, i don't see it in review comments
21:22:59 efried "really needed" meaning it was easier for us to continue to support it than it was for them to stop relying on our shoddy load balancing hack
21:24:27 efried I'm having trouble finding sympathy for "wah, I don't want to set up a load balancer in my cloud" from someone who has enough resources to have multiple glance API endpoints in the first place.
21:24:35 efried Isn't there an openstack project that does load balancing for you?
21:24:50 dansmith efried: a six-node mini cloud would still have three controllers in our setups
21:25:01 mriedem efried: are you thinking of octavia?
21:25:10 dansmith efried: we don't deploy less than three controllers (and thus glance apis) no matter how big or small your cloud is, which means it's *always* an issue
21:25:25 efried ...yes, it looks like I may be thinking of octavia
21:25:39 mriedem i don't know much about octavia, but doesn't that spawn VMs to run the load balancer?
21:25:46 mriedem and thus kind of a chicken and egg issue?
21:25:49 efried I dunno how it works
21:25:50 dansmith yeah, octavia is not a solution to this problem
21:26:02 mriedem johnsom would know
21:26:04 dansmith it's a thing you use on top of a functioning cloud to LB an application
21:26:07 mriedem right
21:26:08 dansmith (afaik)
21:27:14 efried it's not a chicken/egg when you're using it as a *load balancer*. It would be chicken/egg if you were using it for HA.
21:27:15 mriedem e.g. we don't use trove instances to run the nova db...
21:27:21 efried which, again, this is not and never has been.
21:28:03 dansmith efried: it's totally chicken and egg for nova to use it between it and glance, for whatever reason :D
21:28:20 efried but at this point I need to stfu and get back to unwedging osc. I'll look for discussion on that patch I guess.
21:28:33 dansmith yep, thanks pointing people at that soonly
21:28:36 efried and probably expect dansmith to start a ML thread for his people
21:28:37 efried yeah
21:29:01 dansmith yeah, octavia requires a functioning nova to work against
21:29:09 dansmith so nova using octavia to talk to glance is not a thing :)
21:29:26 mriedem here is the thread btw http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-April/116028.html
21:29:45 mriedem which also bled into may
21:30:00 mriedem http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-May/116574.html is godaddy
21:32:10 dansmith yeah
21:32:59 dansmith I know tripleo and similar things HA certain endpoints, but AFAIK, glance and rabbit have always been multiple servers
21:33:38 dansmith especially for fundamental things like that, it's far easier to set that kind of thing in config vs. something you need an api to do,
21:33:45 dansmith for the same reason that cells in the database is problematic
21:33:50 dansmith anyway
21:34:05 johnsom o/ Not all of the Octavia drivers use nova, but I still would not recommend using Octavia load balancers for internal API traffic. There are many chickens and eggs to fight with for that. I.e. keystone, neutron, potentially glance/nova, etc.
21:34:35 mriedem note that a lot of that ML thread is about removing the endpoint_override options, which we haven't done i don't think
21:34:40 mriedem ksa has an override option
21:35:12 mriedem http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-May/116149.html sums up what dan was saying
21:35:17 dansmith well, if I'm understanding this right, once it's down in ksa then we lose the ability to retry smartly right?
21:35:33 mriedem i'm just saying the thread diverged a bit,
21:35:34 dansmith yup
21:35:47 mriedem between overrding the endpoint (don't use the catalog) and multiple api servers for load balancing
21:37:12 mriedem something something openstack ironic > k8s ingress > nova|glance > profit!!!
21:37:13 dansmith and godaddy and blair there actually mention failover more than load-balancing
21:37:35 dansmith heh, well, k8s actually handles this as part of the infra, AFAIK, so ... yeah ;)
21:38:05 mriedem yeah, that's blair's "I think it'd be useful if all OpenStack APIs and their clients actively handled this poor-man's HA without having to resort to haproxy"
21:38:20 mriedem i.e. would be nice if openstack just handled this natively
21:40:01 dansmith right
21:40:17 sean-k-mooney honestly k8s with the nginx ingress control + cert manger + lets encrypt is a nice way to get free tls and do load balancing or at least revers proxying

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