<div dir="ltr"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if it deserves to be mentioned in our documentation, this seems to be a common practice. If an administrator wants to patch his environment, he should be prepared for a temporary downtime of OpenStack services. And he should plan to perform patching in advance: choose a time with minimal load and warn users about possible interruptions of service availability.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Our current implementation of patching does not protect from downtime during the patching procedure. HA deployments seems to be more or less stable. But it looks like it is possible to schedule an action on a compute node and get an error because of service restart. Deployments with one controller... well, you won’t be able to use your cluster until the patching is finished. There is no way to get rid of downtime here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As I understand, we can get rid of possible issues with computes in HA. But it will require migration of instances and stopping of nova-compute service before patching. And it will make the overall patching procedure much longer. Do we want to investigate this process?</div>
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