Open Stack

Hi,

  Goal:

I'd like to replicate the industry standard of providing a on-by-
default (UI) option to auto-assign a floating IP to a newly launched
instance. It must be toggleable however (to follow industry standard).

With openstackclient I'm hoping the feature could be added through e.g
"--auto-assign-floating-ip", where it is unspecified where the stateful
glue logic actually resides. 


  Scenario:

We use Horizon as UI and OpenContrail as VPC provider, where our
virtual networks by default really are private networks, e.g. following
actual industry standard VPC behaviour.

Our users are today required to themselves perform the Assign Floating
IP operation [1] operation before their instance has achieved what 98%
of users desire. So this is both unexpected for users and likewise far
from industry standard (defaults should make a happy user).


  Problem:

Recognizing that deployments are different, and this probably won't
satisfy 100% of deployments architecture, there is furthermore the
unfortunate situation of:
 - nova: we're not adding anything
 - horizon: UI's not a brain

I'm aware of the "--get-me-a-network" effort which is admirable. I
haven't been on top of its progress, but from what I understand today
it hasn't seen the light of day yet. Any update aligned with my goal
would be helpful.

So how can one solve an OpenStack cross-project problem like this,
possibly without having to implement an artificial superintelligence
first?

For any operators around who've dealt with this, and possibly run a
proprietary UI: Have you perchance added an ... "instance launch
orchestrator" that takes arguments to this dear instance orchestration
platform, seeing that Nova in fact *isn't* an "instance launch
orchestrator" (at least not moddable)?

We're at the point where we want this so much that we'll do it regardless of upstream, but I can't for the life of me think that we're alone with the use case.

Regards,
Martin Millnert
[1] http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/networking/v2/index.html?exp
anded=create-floating-ip-detail