[openstack-dev] [keystone][nova] Many same "region_name" configuration really meaingful for Multi-region customers?

Vladimir Eremin veremin at mirantis.com
Fri Mar 4 05:16:59 UTC 2016


Hi,

From my previous 3K+ nodes 6+ regions OpenStack operations experience in Yandex, I found useless to have Cinder and Neutron services in cross-region manner.

BTW, nova-neutron cross-region interactions are still legitimate use case: you may utilize one neutron for many nova regions.

--
With best regards,
Vladimir Eremin,
Fuel Deployment Engineer,
Mirantis, Inc.



> On Mar 4, 2016, at 7:43 AM, Dolph Mathews <dolph.mathews at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Unless someone on the operations side wants to speak up and defend cross-region nova-cinder or nova-neutron interactions as being a legitimate use case, I'd be in favor of a single region identifier.
> 
> However, both of these configuration blocks should ultimately be used to configure keystoneauth, so I would be in favor of whatever solution simplifies configuration for keystoneauth.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Kai Qiang Wu <wkqwu at cn.ibm.com <mailto:wkqwu at cn.ibm.com>> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> Right now, we found that nova.conf have many places for region_name configuration. Check below:
> 
> nova.conf
> 
> *******
> [cinder]
> os_region_name = ***
> 
> [neutron]
> region_name= ***
> 
> 
> 
> *******
> 
> 
> From some mult-region environments observation, those two regions would always config same value.
> Question 1: Does nova support config different regions in nova.conf ? Like below
> 
> [cinder]
> 
> os_region_name = RegionOne
> 
> [neutron]
> region_name= RegionTwo
> 
> 
> From Keystone point, I suspect those regions can access from each other.
> 
> 
> Question 2: If all need to config with same value, why we not use single region_name in nova.conf ? (instead of create many region_name in same file )
> 
> Is it just for code maintenance or else consideration ?
> 
> 
> 
> Could nova and keystone community members help this question ?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Best Wishes,
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kai Qiang Wu (吴开强 Kennan)
> IBM China System and Technology Lab, Beijing
> 
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