[openstack-dev] [neutron] Plethora of dbase migration questions...

Paul Michali pc at michali.net
Tue Jul 7 12:03:26 UTC 2015


And for the query, it involves several table references (Router, Port,
IPAllocation).



On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:00 AM Paul Michali <pc at michali.net> wrote:

> Thanks Salvatore for the responses. See @PCM in-line...
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:14 AM Salvatore Orlando <sorlando at nicira.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Some comments inline.
>>
>> Salvatore
>>
>> On 6 July 2015 at 20:00, Paul Michali <pc at michali.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have some urgent requests about migration that I'm hoping to get some
>>> info on. I'm working on a bug where I need to add two (related) fields to a
>>> table for VPNaaS. Here's the objectives related to migration...
>>>
>>> 1) create local_v4_ip and lcoal_v6_ip fields in the vpnservice table
>>> 2) for each entry in the vpnservice table:
>>>     2.1) Get the router.gw_port.fixed_ips list
>>>     2.2) Determine the version of each fixed IP and store the first of
>>> each version (if any) into the appropriate new field.
>>>
>>> I have created a migration file, and I changed the down_revision to be
>>> the number of the revision that is the first in the migration chain in the
>>> VPN repo.
>>>
>>> Here are the many questions I have...
>>>
>>> When I look in the VPN repo, the HEAD file has the version 'kilo', which
>>> is not the current head.
>>>
>>
>>> Shouldn't it the version number of the first file in the migration chain?
>>>
>>
>> It should indeed. How are you generating the revision script? Using
>> neutron-db-manage it should be updated automatically [1]
>>
>
> @PCM I ran neutron-db-manage, when in the neutron repo, and it assigned
> some version, but it was not the latest in the neutron-vpnaas repo.
>
> I checked the VPN repo and there were a chain of versions, which I used to
> determine what the head should be and have set the version accordingly.
> However, in the current repo, head is set to "kilo", which appears to be
> incorrect.  The versions are:
>
> 56893333aa52
> kilo   <<< HEAD
> 3ea02b2a773e
> start_neutron_vpnaas
> None
>
> Should I do a separate commit that fixes the HEAD file, or just fix it as
> part of the bug fix I'm working on.
>
> BTW, at one point, after having correctly set the HEAD and versions in my
> new migration file, I think I ran neutron-db-manage check_migration, and I
> think it set the HEAD to my version, but it did that in the neutron repo,
> and not the VPN repo.  I might have been running from the wrong repo?
>
>
>
>> For my commit, I'm assuming I change the HEAD file to use my migration
>>> file's version?
>>>
>>
>> You can do that manually too, yes.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I set HEAD to my migration file, and my file has a down revision of the
>>> previous head's revision. If I run 'neutron-db-manage --config-file
>>> ../neutron/etc/neutron.conf --config-file
>>> ../neutron/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini check_migration' there is
>>> no output so I guess that is OK.
>>>
>>> As I develop my new migration file, is there a way that I can test it
>>> (running neutron-db-migration, maybe)?
>>>
>>
>> When I test migrations I usually dump the database, run the migration
>> with neutron-db-manage upgrade HEAD (I think it's not necessary to specify
>> HEAD), and restore the db from the dump if the migration fails.
>>
>>
>>> Is there a way to run the migration file under the debugger, as well
>>> (importing pdb, for example)?
>>>
>>
>> The migration process is just like any python application, so I guess you
>> can debug it with pdb.
>>
>
> @PCM Ah, so use "neutron-db-manage upgrade HEAD". That was the piece that
> was missing. I take it there are no specific unit tests of the migration
> files?
>
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> In the migration, I can add the columns needed. What's the best way to
>>> fill out those fields - using raw SQL queries or create a Session object
>>> and access the VpnService object's router object?
>>>
>>
>> If the default value for the column is not enough, and you need to
>> specify a value which depends on other values in the same row I would
>> prefer plain SQL statements, but if that become cumbersome I guess it's ok
>> to use sqlalchemy's session.
>>
>>
>>> I see there is some op.bind() call and then engine.execute(), but could
>>> use some help on the best way to extract the needed queries (I need to
>>> access the vpnservice's router, and then access the (Port) gw_port
>>> relationship, and from that access the (IPAllocation) fixed_ips list).
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps you can point us to the review pages on gerrit, and we can
>> provide detailed comments there.
>>
>
> @PCM Yeah, I haven't pushed it up yet. I have a few more changes to make,
> and should be able to get it up in a few days. The LP bug is 1464387.
>
> Essentially, in the vpnservices table, I'm adding an IPv4 and/or IPv6
> addresses for the  "local" end of VPN connections that will be established.
> This is to allow alternative VPN implementation (appliances, separate S/W,
> H/W, VM based VPN, etc) to specify addresses different than what is
> available on the Neutron router.
>
> However, for the reference implementation, we'll use the Neutron router's
> fixed_ips list (as is done today), and to handle the migration, I'm
> thinking the following is needed:
>
> 1) create the new columns.
> 2) Identify the router for that service and obtain it's GW fixed_ips list.
> 3) Pick first IPv4 address (if any) and IPv6 address (if any), and store
> in new columns.
>
> So I need to form a query and code to do this.
>
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> Appreciate any advise here on how to debug the migration stuff...
>>>
>>> Paul Michali (pc_m)
>>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/neutron/tree/neutron/db/migration/cli.py#n124
>>
>>
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