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Hi Ricardo,

This is really good suggestion. I'd like to see whether we can use "foreach"/"repeat" in ResourceGroup in Heat.

Regards,
Gary Duan

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From: Ricardo Rocha [mailto:rocha.porto at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:49 AM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Magnum] Magnum supports 2 Nova flavor to provision minion nodes

Hi Hongbin.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Hongbin Lu <hongbin.lu at huawei.com> wrote:
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> From: Duan, Li-Gong (Gary, HPServers-Core-OE-PSC) 
> [mailto:li-gong.duan at hpe.com]
> Sent: April-20-16 3:39 AM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Magnum] Magnum supports 2 Nova flavor to 
> provision minion nodes
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> Hi Folks,
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> We are considering whether Magnum can supports 2 Nova flavors to 
> provision Kubernetes and other COE minion nodes.
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> This requirement comes from the below use cases:
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> -          There are 2 kind of baremetal machines in customer site: one is
> legacy machines which doesn’t support UEFI secure boot and others are 
> new machines which support UEFI secure boot. User want to use Magnum 
> to provisions a Magnum bay of Kubernetes from these 2 kind of 
> baremetal machines and for the machines supporting secure boot, user 
> wants to use UEFI secure boot to boot them up. And 2 Kubernetes 
> label(secure-booted and
> non-secure-booted) are created and User can deploy their 
> data-senstive/cirtical workload/containers/pods on the baremetal 
> machines which are secure-booted.
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> This requirement requires Magnum to supports 2 Nova flavors(one is
> “extra_spec: secure_boot=True” and the other doesn’t specify it) based 
> on the Ironic 
> feature(https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/kilo-
> implemented/uefi-secure-boot.html
> ).
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> Could you kindly give me some comments on these requirement or whether 
> it is reasonable from your point? If you agree, we can write design 
> spec and implement this feature?
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> I think the requirement is reasonable, but I would like to solve the 
> problem in a generic way. In particular, there could be another user 
> who might ask for N nova flavors to provision COE nodes in the future. 
> A challenge to support N groups of Nova instances is how to express 
> arbitrary number of resource groups (with different flavors) in a Heat 
> template (Magnum uses Heat template to provision COE clusters). Heat 
> doesn’t seem to support the logic of looping from 1 to N. There could 
> be other challenges/complexities along the way. If the proposed design 
> can address all the challenges and the implementation is clean, I am 
> OK to add support for this feature. Thoughts from others?

This looks similar to the way we looked at passing a list of availability zones. Mathieu asked and got a good answer:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-March/088175.html

Something similar can probably be used to pass multiple flavors? Just in case it helps.

Cheers,
  Ricardo

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> Regards,
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> Gary
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