omni/nova

Setup

Updated: 12th December 2016 (Updated to be in sync with Platform9 release 2.4)

Prerequesites

1. Working green field OpenStack deployment (code currently based out of stable/liberty)
2. The virtualenv used by nova should have Amazon boto package installed

Components

• Nova driver: Handles instance creation, power operations and snapshotting an instance to AMI

Instructions

1. Copy the nova/ec2 directory to /nova/nova/virt/
2. Update the configuration files -
   1. edit /etc/nova/nova.conf

   [DEFAULT]
   compute_driver = ec2.EC2Driver
   
   [AWS]
   secret_key = <your aws secret access key>
   access_key = <your aws access key>
   region_name = <was region to use>
   max_cpus = <maximum CPUs that nova should use (default: 500)>
   max_memory_mb = <maximum memory that nova should use (default: 102400 i.e. 1000GB)>
   max_disk_gb = <maximum storage that nova should use (default: 1024 i.e. 1 TB)>
   

3. Restart the nova compute services

Running unit tests:

1. Copy the nova/tests/ec2 to /nova/tests/unit/virt directory
2. To run the AWS Driver unit tests -

   tox -e <env> nova.tests.unit.virt.ec2
   e.g. to run python 2.7 tests -
   tox -e py27 nova.tests.unit.virt.ec2