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This is a method of using wsgi-intercept to provide a context manager that allows talking to placement over requests, but without a network. It is a quick and dirty way to talk to and make changes in the placement database where the only network traffic is with the placement database. This is expected to be useful in the creation of tools for performing fast forward upgrades where each compute node may need to "migrate" its resource providers, inventory and allocations in the face of changing representations of hardware (for example pre-existing VGPUs being represented as nested providers) but would like to do so when all non-database services are stopped. A system like this would allow code on the compute node to update the placement database, using well known HTTP interactions, without the placement service being up. The basic idea is that we spin up the WSGI stack with no auth, configured using whatever already loaded CONF we happen to have available. That CONF points to the placement database and all the usual stuff. The context manager provides a keystoneauth1 Adapter class that operates as a client for accessing placement. The full WSGI stack is brought up because we need various bits of middleware to help ensure that policy calls don't explode and so JSON validation is in place. In this model everything else is left up to the caller: constructing the JSON, choosing which URIs to call with what methods (see test_direct for minimal examples that ought to give an idea of what real callers could expect). To make things friendly in the nova context and ease creation of fast forward upgrade tools, SchedulerReportClient is tweaked to take an optional adapter kwarg on construction. If specified, this is used instead of creating one with get_ksa_adapter(), using settings from [placement] conf. Doing things in this way draws a clear line between the placement parts and the nova parts while keeping the nova parts straightforward. NoAuthReportClient is replaced with a base test class, test_report_client.SchedulerReportClientTestBase. This provides an _interceptor() context manager which is a wrapper around PlacementDirect, but instead of producing an Adapter, it produces a SchedulerReportClient (which has been passed the Adapter provided by PlacementDirect). test_resource_tracker and test_report_client are updated accordingly. Caveats to be aware of: * This is (intentionally) set up to circumvent authentication and authorization. If you have access to the necessary database connection string, then you are good to go. That's what we want, right? * CONF construction being left up to the caller is on purpose because right now placement itself is not super flexible in this area and flexibility is desired here. This is not (by a long shot) the only way to do this. Other options include: * Constructing a WSGI environ that has all the necessary bits to allow calling the methods in the handlers directly (as python commands). This would duplicate a fair bit of the middleware and seems error prone, because it's hard to discern what parts of the environ need to be filled. It's also weird for data input: we need to use a BytesIO to pass in data on PUTs and POSTs. * Using either the WSGI environ or wsgi-intercept models but wrap it with a pythonic library that exposes a "pretty" interface to callers. Something like: placement.direct.allocations.update(consumer_uuid, {data}) * Creating a python library that assembles the necessary data for calling the methods in the resource provider objects and exposing that to: a) the callers who want this direct stuff b) the existing handlers in placement (which remain responsible for json manipulation and validation and microversion handling, and marshal data appropriately for the python lib) I've chosen the simplest thing as a starting point because it gives us something to talk over and could solve the immediate problem. If we were to eventually pursue the 4th option, I would hope that we had some significant discussion before doing so as I think it is a) harder than it might seem at first glance, b) likely to lead to many asking "why bother with the http interface at all?". Both require thought. Partially implements blueprint reshape-provider-tree Co-Authored-By: Eric Fried <efried@us.ibm.com> Change-Id: I075785abcd4f4a8e180959daeadf215b9cd175c8 |
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api-guide/source | ||
api-ref/source | ||
contrib | ||
devstack | ||
doc | ||
etc/nova | ||
gate | ||
nova | ||
placement-api-ref/source | ||
playbooks/legacy | ||
releasenotes | ||
tools | ||
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.gitreview | ||
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CONTRIBUTING.rst | ||
HACKING.rst | ||
LICENSE | ||
MAINTAINERS | ||
README.rst | ||
babel.cfg | ||
bindep.txt | ||
lower-constraints.txt | ||
requirements.txt | ||
setup.cfg | ||
setup.py | ||
test-requirements.txt | ||
tests-py3.txt | ||
tox.ini |
README.rst
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OpenStack Nova
OpenStack Nova provides a cloud computing fabric controller, supporting a wide variety of compute technologies, including: libvirt (KVM, Xen, LXC and more), Hyper-V, VMware, XenServer, OpenStack Ironic and PowerVM.
Use the following resources to learn more.
API
To learn how to use Nova's API, consult the documentation available online at:
For more information on OpenStack APIs, SDKs and CLIs in general, refer to:
Operators
To learn how to deploy and configure OpenStack Nova, consult the documentation available online at:
In the unfortunate event that bugs are discovered, they should be reported to the appropriate bug tracker. If you obtained the software from a 3rd party operating system vendor, it is often wise to use their own bug tracker for reporting problems. In all other cases use the master OpenStack bug tracker, available at:
Developers
For information on how to contribute to Nova, please see the contents of the CONTRIBUTING.rst.
Any new code must follow the development guidelines detailed in the HACKING.rst file, and pass all unit tests.
Further developer focused documentation is available at:
Other Information
During each Summit and Project Team Gathering, we agree on what the whole community wants to focus on for the upcoming release. The plans for nova can be found at: