[Openstack-operators] [nova] Removing seeded flavors

Robert Starmer robert at kumul.us
Sun Apr 3 17:46:04 UTC 2016


I'll add a vote for removal, given how varied private clouds tend to be,
the flavors are often "wrong" for any one particular purpose.

R

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Mike Smith <mismith at overstock.com> wrote:

> +1 from me.  We always just remove them and add our own.  Like Dan said,
> it’s consistent with populating your own images.
>
> Mike Smith
> Lead Cloud Systems Architect
> Overstock.com
>
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Eric Windisch <eric at windisch.us> wrote:
>
> 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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