[Openstack] How to run the HEAT autoscaling YAML

Mike Spreitzer mspreitz at us.ibm.com
Mon Nov 10 14:43:25 UTC 2014


Venu Murthy <venum at thoughtworks.com> wrote on 11/06/2014 08:34:37 PM:

> In terms of the architecture for OpenStack setup, if we have a 
> controller node, Compute Node A and Compute Node B. 
> In the same availability zone. 
> 
> I do understand that this autoscaling is more for the instances. But
> how can we load balance or start spawning our instances on Compute 
> Node B, if the Compute Node A's utilisation has reached a threshold....

OpenStack gives a HOT author no access to the relationship between host 
and guest.  You can autoscale based only on metrics about the guest or 
things relatable to the guest in HOT.  Would it work for you to autoscale 
based on load or performance of your guests?

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