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Hi all,
please see below original email below from Dmitry. I've modified the
subject to bring larger audience to the issue.

I'd like to split the issue into two parts:

   1. Maintenance mode for OpenStack controllers in HA mode (HA-ed
   Keystone, Glance, etc.)
   2. Maintenance mode for OpenStack computes/storage nodes (no HA)

For first category, we might not need to have maintenance mode at all. For
example, if we apply patching/upgrade one by one node to 3-node HA cluster,
2 nodes will serve requests normally. Is that possible for our HA solutions
in Fuel, TripleO, other frameworks?

For second category, can not we simply do "nova-manage service disable...",
so scheduler will simply stop scheduling new workloads on particular host
which we want to do maintenance on?


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Dmitry Pyzhov <dpyzhov at mirantis.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
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Mike Scherbakov
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