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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016, at 12:15 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> Forgive me for thinking out loud, but I'm trying to sort out how nova 
> would use a microversion in the nova API for the get-me-a-network 
> feature recently added to neutron [1] and planned to be leveraged in 
> nova (there isn't a spec yet for nova, I'm trying to sort this out for a 
> draft).
> 
> Originally I was thinking that a network is required for nova boot, so 
> we'd simply check for a microversion and allow not specifying a network, 
> easy peasy.
> 
> Turns out you can boot an instance in nova (with neutron as the network 
> backend) without a network. All you get is a measly debug log message in 
> the compute logs [2]. That's kind of useless though and seems silly.
> 
> I haven't tested this out yet to confirm, but I suspect that if you 
> create a nova instance w/o a network, you can latter try to attach a 
> network using the os-attach-interfaces API as long as you either provide 
> a network ID *or* there is a public shared network or the tenant has a 
> network at that point (nova looks those up if a specific network ID 
> isn't provided).
> 
> The high-level plan for get-me-a-network in nova was simply going to be 
> if the user tries to boot an instance and doesn't provide a network, and 
> there isn't a tenant network or public shared network to default to, 
> then nova would call neutron's new auto-allocated-topology API to get a 
> network. This, however, is a behavior change.
> 
> So I guess the question now is how do we handle that behavior change in 
> the nova API?
> 
> We could add an auto-create-net boolean to the boot server request which 
> would only be available in a microversion, then we could check that 
> boolean in the compute API when we're doing network validation.
> 

I think a flag like this is the right approach. If it's currently valid
to boot an instance without a network than there needs to be something
to distinguish a request that wants a network created vs. a request that
doesn't want a network.

This is still hugely useful if all that's required from a user is to
indicate that they would like a network, they still don't need to
understand/provide details of the network.



> Today if you don't specify a network and don't have a network available, 
> then the validation in the API is basically just quota checking that you 
> can get at least one port in your tenant [3]. With a flag on a 
> microversion, we could also validate some other things about 
> auto-creating a network (if we know that's going to be the case once we 
> hit the compute).
> 
> Anyway, this is mostly me getting thoughts out of my head before the 
> weekend so I don't forget it and am looking for other ideas here or 
> things I might be missing.
> 
> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/get-me-a-network
> [2] 
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/30ba0c5eb19a9c9628957ac8e617ae78c0c1fa84/nova/network/neutronv2/api.py#L594-L595
> [3] 
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/30ba0c5eb19a9c9628957ac8e617ae78c0c1fa84/nova/network/neutronv2/api.py#L1107
> 
> -- 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Riedemann
> 
> 
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