
This builds on the ProviderTree work in the compute driver and resource tracker to take the supported capabilities from a driver and turn those into standard traits on the compute node resource provider. This is a simple way to expose in a REST API (Placement in this case) what a compute node, via its driver, supports. This is also something easy that we can do in lieu of a full-blown compute capabilities REST API in nova, which we've talked about for years but never actually done anything about. We can later build on this to add a request filter which will mark certain types of boot-from-volume requests as requiring specific capabilities, like for volume multiattach and tagged devices. Any traits provided by the driver will be automatically added during startup or a periodic update of a compute node: https://pasteboard.co/I3iqqNm.jpg Similarly any traits later retracted by the driver will be automatically removed. However any traits associated with capabilities which are inappropriately added to or removed from the resource provider by the admin via the Placement API will not be reverted until the compute service's provider cache is reset. The new call graph is shown in this sequence diagram: https://pasteboard.co/I25qICd.png Co-Authored-By: Adam Spiers <aspiers@suse.com> Related to blueprint placement-req-filter Related to blueprint expose-host-capabilities Change-Id: I15364d37fb7426f4eec00ca4eaf99bec50e964b6
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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: