[openstack-dev] [Fuel] Wipe of the nodes' disks

Oleg Gelbukh ogelbukh at mirantis.com
Thu Dec 24 09:34:31 UTC 2015


I guess that the original idea behind the wipe were security reasons so the
decommissioned node didn't contain any information of the cloud, including
configuration files and such.

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Best regards,
Oleg Gelbukh

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Artur Svechnikov <asvechnikov at mirantis.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
> We have faced the issue that nodes' disks are wiped after stop deployment.
> It occurs due to the logic of nodes removing (this is old logic and it's
> not actual already as I understand). This logic contains step which calls
> erase_node[0], also there is another method with wipe of disks [1]. AFAIK
> it was needed for smooth cobbler provision and ensure that nodes will not
> be booted from disk when it shouldn't. Instead of cobbler we use IBP from
> fuel-agent where current partition table is wiped before provision stage.
> And use disks wiping for insurance that nodes will not booted from disk
> doesn't seem good solution. I want to propose not to wipe disks and simply
> unset bootable flag from node disks.
>
> Please share your thoughts. Perhaps some other components use the fact
> that disks are wiped after node removing or stop deployment. If it's so,
> then please tell about it.
>
> [0]
> https://github.com/openstack/fuel-astute/blob/master/lib/astute/nodes_remover.rb#L132-L137
> [1]
> https://github.com/openstack/fuel-astute/blob/master/lib/astute/ssh_actions/ssh_erase_nodes.rb
>
> Best regards,
> Svechnikov Artur
>
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