[openstack-dev] [heat] heat delete woes in Juno

Matt Fischer matt at mattfischer.com
Thu Mar 26 19:56:30 UTC 2015


We don't have heat stack-abandon enabled. It's marked as a "preview
feature", have you had any issues? Once you abandon the stack I assume you
remove the resources outside of heat using nova/neutron etc?

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Ala Rezmerita <ala.rezmerita at cloudwatt.com>
wrote:

> Hi Matt
>
> I had similar problems with heat, and the work-around that i used is to
> abandon the stack (heat stack-abandon),
> and then I delete stack resources created  one by one.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ala Rezmerita
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> *De: *"Matt Fischer" <matt at mattfischer.com>
> *À: *openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> *Envoyé: *Jeudi 26 Mars 2015 19:17:08
> *Objet: *[openstack-dev] [heat] heat delete woes in Juno
>
>
> Nobody on the operators list had any ideas on this, so re-posting here.
>
> We've been having some issues with heat delete-stack in Juno. The issues
> generally fall into three categories:
>
> 1) it takes multiple calls to heat to delete a stack. Presumably due
> to heat being unable to figure out the ordering on deletion and resources
> being in use.
>
> 2) undeleteable stacks. Stacks that refuse to delete, get stuck in
> DELETE_FAILED state. In this case, they show up in stack-list and
> stack-show, yet resource-list and stack-delete deny their existence. This
> means I can't be sure whether they have any real resources very easily.
>
> 3) As a corollary to item 1, stacks for which heat can never unwind the
> dependencies and stay in DELETE_IN_PROGRESS forever.
>
> Does anyone have any work-arounds for these or recommendations on cleanup?
> My main worry is removing a stack from the database that is still consuming
> the customer's resources. I also don't just want to remove stacks from the
> database and leave orphaned records in the DB.
>
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