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Hi all.

Hardware nodes consoles have some specific: limited number of

concurrent console sessions (often to 1) that can be established.

There are some issues (described below) due to conflict between

distributed ironic conductors services and local console processes.

This affect only case with local console processes, currently

shellinabox and socat for example.

There are some possible "global" solutions:

1) Pluggable internal task API [1], currently rejected by community;

2) Non-pluggable internal task API that uses external service (there

is not necessary service currently in OpenStack);

3) Custom distributed process management based on ssh access

between ironic conductor hosts (looks like a hack);

4) New console interface drivers which implements tasks management

internally (like "k8s_shellinabox", "k8s_socat").

And partial solutions (some of them proposed below) are possible.

In multi-conductor environment ironic conductor process can be

died/stopped/blocked (removed) or started/restarted (added).

Possible cases:

1) Conductor removed

a) gracefully stopped. Some daemon processes like shellinabox

for consoles can continue to run. This issue can be fixed currently

as separate bug.

b) died/killed. Daemon processes can continue to run. This issue can

be fixed only by distributed tasks management ("global" solutions above).

c) all host with conductor died. No fix needed.

2) Conductor added/restarted

New conductor try to start processes for enabled consoles, but currently

processes on conductor hosts that works with these nodes before not

stopped [2]. I see two possible solution for this issue:

1) "Untakeover" periodic task for stopping console processes.

For this solution we should not stop non-local consoles.

2) Do not stop process on old conductor. Use redefined RPC routing

(based on saved into DB conductor that started console) on API side

for set console and wait stopping via API. This routing should also

ignore dead conductors.


If you have some ideas please leave comments.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/431605/

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1632192


Yuriy Zveryanskyy
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