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This commit updates the nova driver to latest release of Platform9. Some of the notable changes include: 1. Addition of unit tests 2. Configurable maximum usable resources i.e. memory, disk and cpu 3. Better integration for security groups with latest changes in neutron
Setup
Updated: 12th December 2016 (Updated to be in sync with Platform9 release 2.4)
Prerequesites
- Working green field OpenStack deployment (code currently based out of stable/liberty)
- 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
- Copy the nova/ec2 directory to /nova/nova/virt/
- Update the configuration files -
- 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)> - Restart the nova compute services
Running unit tests:
- Copy the nova/tests/ec2 to /nova/tests/unit/virt directory
- 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