deb-heat/doc/source/schedulerhints.rst
Joe D'Andrea b31259a9ed Adds resource uuid, volume support to lifecycle scheduler hints
Heat resources are now assigned an orchestration id prior to their
instantiation by nova, cinder, et. al. This id is now added to
stack lifecycle scheduler hints. In addition to nova receiving
such hints, cinder is also now supported.

Change-Id: I5a13feb1bdedfbbe44de15e3d9eae72e56ec8a25
Closes-Bug: #1476345
2015-08-27 12:05:39 -04:00

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Heat Stack Lifecycle Scheduler Hints

This is a mechanism whereby when heat processes a stack Server or Volume resource, the stack id, root stack id, stack resource uuid, stack resource name and the path in the stack can be passed to nova and cinder by heat as scheduler hints, to the configured schedulers for nova and cinder.

Enabling the scheduler hints

By default, passing the lifecycle scheduler hints is disabled. To enable it, set stack_scheduler_hints to True in heat.conf.

The hints

When heat processes a stack, and the feature is enabled, the stack id, root stack id, stack resource uuid, stack resource name, and the path in the stack (as a list of tuple, (stackresourcename, stackname)) will be passed to nova and cinder by heat as scheduler hints, to the configured schedulers for nova and cinder.

Purpose

A heat provider may have a need for custom code to examine stack requests prior to performing the operations to create or update a stack. After the custom code completes, the provider may want to provide hints to the nova or cinder schedulers with stack related identifiers, for processing by any custom scheduler plug-ins configured for nova or cinder.