[openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators]flush expired tokens and moves deleted instance

Daniel Comnea comnea.dani at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 01:45:46 UTC 2015


+100

Dani

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

>  This is often mentioned as one of those items which catches every
> OpenStack cloud operator at some time. It’s not clear to me that there
> could not be a scheduled job built into the system with a default frequency
> (configurable, ideally).
>
>
>
> If we are all configuring this as a cron job, is there a reason that it
> could not be built into the code ?
>
>
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> *From:* Mike Smith [mailto:mismith at overstock.com]
> *Sent:* 24 January 2015 18:08
> *To:* Daniel Comnea
> *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions);
> openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators]
> [openstack-dev][openstack-operators]flush expired tokens and moves deleted
> instance
>
>
>
> It is still mentioned in the Juno installation docs:
>
>
>
> By default, the Identity service stores expired tokens in the database
> indefinitely. The
>
> accumulation of expired tokens considerably increases the database size
> and might degrade
>
> service performance, particularly in environments with limited resources.
>
> We recommend that you use cron to configure a periodic task that purges
> expired tokens
>
> hourly:
>
> # (crontab -l -u keystone 2>&1 | grep -q token_flush) || \
>
> echo '@hourly /usr/bin/keystone-manage token_flush >/var/log/keystone/
>
> keystone-tokenflush.log 2>&1' \
>
> >> /var/spool/cron/keystone
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Mike Smith
> Principal Engineer, Website Systems
> Overstock.com
>
>
>
>  On Jan 24, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Daniel Comnea <comnea.dani at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>   I just bumped into Sebastien's blog where he suggested a cron job
> should run in production to tidy up expired tokens - see blog[1]
>
> Could you please remind me if this is still required in IceHouse/ Juno? (i
> kind of remember i've seen some work being done in this direction but i
> can't find the emails)
>
>   Thanks,
> Dani
>
> [1]
> http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2014/08/18/a-must-have-cron-job-on-your-openstack-cloud/
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