[Openstack-operators] [nova] Removing seeded flavors

Eric Windisch eric at windisch.us
Sun Apr 3 02:33:48 UTC 2016


I recall these being embedded being a real operational pain when my team
wanted to replace the defaults. +1 on removal
On Mar 31, 2016 2:27 PM, "Dan Smith" <dms at danplanet.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to float this past the operators list for visibility:
>
> Historically Nova has seeded some default flavors in an initial install.
> The way it has done this is really atypical of anything else we do, as
> it's embedded in the initial database schema migration. Since we're
> moving where we store those flavors now, leaving their creation in the
> original migration means even new deploys will just have to move them to
> the new location. That, and we don't even use them for our own testing
> as they're too large.
>
> So, this will involve removing them from that migration, making sure
> that devstack creates you some flavors to use if you're going that
> route, and updates to the manuals describing the creation of base
> flavors alongside getting an image set up to use.
>
> For real deployments, there should be little or no effect, but PoC type
> deploys that are used to those flavors being present may need to run a
> couple of flavor-create commands when bootstrapping, just like you have
> to do for images.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Dan
>
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