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Thanks for the detail reply :-).

And many thanks for the patch, I'll give a try and let you know.

Cheers!


On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall at managedit.ie> wrote:
> P.S. - That patch is against the current "stable/folsom" branch.. It won't
> apply to Grizzly cleanly..
>
> Thanks,
> Kiall
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall at managedit.ie>
> wrote:
>>
>> Response inline.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kiall
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Sébastien Han <han.sebastien at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Kial,
>>>
>>> Hold on...
>>> You obviously didn't understand my question. So please don't try to
>>> teach me anything. I can admit that the initial description of my
>>> request was a bit unclear. So I'm gonna try to clarify it.
>>
>>
>> I apologize, I certainly did not intend any insult.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I use nova-network with the VLAN manager, so I have a network range
>>> per projects (fixed ips), per VLAN. Each project uses a specific pool,
>>> I use the floating IPs to expose instances to another private network
>>> and I don't use the "auto_assign_floating_ip" parameter.
>>
>>
>> Great - Sounds like a pretty standard setup.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Now, when I perform a "nova floating-ip-create <my-pool>" this gives
>>> me the first floating IP available of that pool. What I want to
>>> know/achieve is to decide the floating IP address to create. Basically
>>> this could lead to a command like:
>>>
>>> # nova floating-ip-create <my-pool>
>>> <floating-ip-that-I-want-create-from-a-pool>
>>
>>
>> Ah - I understand now.
>>
>> This is not supported by Nova Network (I can't say if it's supported with
>> Quantum).
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But as you can see below, it's not available from the CLI:
>>>
>>> # nova help floating-ip-create
>>> usage: nova floating-ip-create [<floating-ip-pool>]
>>>
>>> Allocate a floating IP for the current tenant.
>>>
>>> Positional arguments:
>>>   <floating-ip-pool>  Name of Floating IP Pool. (Optional)
>>>
>>> Then I'll associate this floating IP to one of my instances.
>>>
>>> Let's try to raise the level of this discussion. Now if there is
>>> something that I don't know, or something that I missed, feel free to
>>> teach/correct me.
>>
>>
>> Again - I apologize. No insult was intended.
>>
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a workaround, or code patch.
>>> Something that doesn't require huge amount of work. Is that doable?
>>
>>
>> I believe it is doable without significant changes to the code.
>>
>> By patching the code to allow an extra parameter to pass through from the
>> REST API call, all the way through to the DB's allocation method, the
>> allocation method could be made to choose a particular IP by altering the
>> SQL query executed.
>>
>> Some pointers to the relevant parts of the code:
>>
>> REST API:
>>
>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/folsom/nova/api/openstack/compute/contrib/floating_ips.py#L162-180
>>
>> Network Service API:
>>
>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/folsom/nova/network/api.py#L177-188
>>
>> Network Service Manager:
>>
>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/folsom/nova/network/manager.py#L406-443
>>
>> DB API:
>>
>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/folsom/nova/db/api.py#L263-269
>>
>> DB Implementation:
>>
>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/folsom/nova/db/sqlalchemy/api.py#L700-718
>>
>> I hope this helps!
>>
>> Actually - It looked like it could be done fairly quickly, you can try
>> this (untested) patch: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1317723/plain/
>>
>> Once applied, you should be able to supply an "ip" param as part of the
>> REST API call, and you will get that specific IP - if it is available. This
>> doesn't update the CLI, I've never looked at it's code so wouldn't know
>> where to start :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kiall
>>
>>>
>>> Anyone?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall at managedit.ie>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi Sebastian,
>>> >
>>> > The commands are nearly identical - just replace quantum with nova!
>>> >
>>> > Although, it sounds like you already have floating IPs being allocated
>>> > randomly.
>>> >
>>> > That could be one of two things - either you have
>>> > auto_assign_floatingip=True in your configuration, or you misunderstand
>>> > the
>>> > difference between fixed and floating ips.
>>> >
>>> > When you boot an instance, does it get a private or public IP? And -
>>> > when
>>> > you ran the network-create command, what IP range did you use?
>>> >
>>> > Kiall
>>> >
>>> > On Oct 30, 2012 9:26 AM, "Sébastien Han" <han.sebastien at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> @Kiall, if it does, tell us more about it please.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall at managedit.ie>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> > I'm fairly confident that quantum is not a requirement for this.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Nova's in-built networking supports exactly this since as long ago
>>> >> > as I
>>> >> > can
>>> >> > remember.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thanks,
>>> >> > Kiall
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Oct 30, 2012 9:04 AM, "Emilien Macchi" <emilien at enovance.com>
>>> >> > wrote:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Hello Sebastien,
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> What you can do today is to choose manually which floating IP you
>>> >> >> need
>>> >> >> to
>>> >> >> associate with a specific instance.
>>> >> >> You need to run OpenStack Folsom + Quantum.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> First, you need to create Floating IP pool(s) from Quantum CLI, and
>>> >> >> after
>>> >> >> that, the tenant is able to associate this IP to a private instance
>>> >> >> :
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> quantum floatingip-create ext_net
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> quantum floatingip-associate $FLOATING_ID $PORT_ID
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> More informations about Networking configuration with Quantum CLI
>>> >> >> here
>>> >> >> :
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/demo_logical_network_config.html
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Cheers ;-)
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Emilien Macchi
>>> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------
>>> >> >> // eNovance Inc.              http://enovance.com
>>> >> >> // ✉ emilien at enovance.com     ☎ +33 (0)1 49 70 99 80
>>> >> >> // 10 rue de la Victoire 75009 Paris
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> ________________________________
>>> >> >> De: "Sébastien Han" <han.sebastien at gmail.com>
>>> >> >> À: "Openstack" <openstack at lists.launchpad.net>
>>> >> >> Envoyé: Lundi 29 Octobre 2012 17:25:47
>>> >> >> Objet: [Openstack] Allocate specific floating IP to an instance
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Hi Stacker,
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I know OpenStack is not designed that way and I don't think it's
>>> >> >> possible (or maybe I misses something :)) but I was wondering if
>>> >> >> there
>>> >> >> is any simple workaround to choose a specific floating IP to
>>> >> >> allocate.
>>> >> >> In other words, don't give me a random or N+1 next floating IP
>>> >> >> available but let me decide which floating IP I want to assign to
>>> >> >> my
>>> >> >> instance. It doesn't make sense in a public cloud but it does for a
>>> >> >> corporate/private cloud. It would be nice to have :)
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Thanks in advance.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Cheers!
>>> >> >>
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