[openstack-dev] [mogan][valence] Valence integration

Zhenguo Niu niu.zglinux at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 02:22:56 UTC 2017


Thanks Yang, Lin for the explanation!

The Valence flavor shows a good example for baremetal instances, we do need
such a flavor :D

I will draft a spec for this, you can help to review later. Another
question is whether the Valence client is ready to use or we need to wrap
the REST API ourselves?



On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Yang, Lin A <lin.a.yang at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Zhenguo,
>
>
>
> Please checkout the latest valence api spec, current it support two ways
> to specify the arguments when composing node via valence api.
>
> 1. Specify flavor for composition -  Specify flavor uuid in ‘flavor_id’
> field {flavor_id: flavor_uuid} besides the name and description fields. An
> example of request body shows as below.
>
>   {‘name’: ‘new_node’,
>
>    ‘description’: ‘test composition’,
>
>    ‘flavor_id’: ‘fake_uuid’}
>
>
>
> 2. Specify every hardware details, like cpu, memory, local/remote drive,
> nic, in ‘properties’ field.
>
>   {‘name’: ‘new_node’,
>
>    ‘description’: ‘test composition’,
>
>    ‘properties’: {‘processor’: {‘total_cores’:8,
>
>                                                     ‘model’:
> ‘fale_model’},
>
>                             ‘memore’: {‘capacity_mib’: 4096,
>
>                                                   ‘type’: ‘DDR3’}}}
>
> We will update user document to list all available parameters for node
> composition soon.
>
>
>
> [0] https://github.com/openstack/valence/blob/
> 0db8a8e186e25ded2b17460f5ae2ce9abf576851/api-ref/source/
> valence-api-v1-nodes.inc
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lin.
>
> *From:* Zhenguo Niu [mailto:niu.zglinux at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 21, 2017 4:20 AM
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.
> openstack.org>
> *Subject:* [openstack-dev] [mogan][valence] Valence integration
>
>
>
> hi guys,
>
>
>
> Here is a spec about Mogan and Valence integration[1], but before this
> happen, I would like to know what information needed when requesting to
> compose a node through Valence. From the API doc[2], I can only find name
> and description parameters, but seems like it's incorrect, I suppose that
> it should at least include cpus, ram, disk or maybe cpuinfo. We need to
> align with this before introducing a new flavor for both RSD nodes and
> generic nodes.
>
>
>
>
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/441790/
>
> [2] https://github.com/openstack/valence/blob/master/
> api-ref/source/valence-api-v1-nodes.inc#request
>
>
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Zhenguo Niu
>



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Best Regards,
Zhenguo Niu
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