[openstack-dev] [nova] [devstack] [deployment] nova-api and meta-api under uwsgi

Matt Riedemann mriedemos at gmail.com
Tue May 16 16:47:44 UTC 2017


On 5/16/2017 11:11 AM, Chris Dent wrote:
>
> (This is a followup to
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-May/116267.html
> but I don't have that around anymore to make a proper response to.)
>
> In a devstack change:
>
>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/457715/
>
> nova-api and nova-metadata will be changed to run as WSGI
> applications with a uwsgi server by default. This helps to enable
> a few recent goals:
>
> * everything under systemd in devstack
> * minimizing custom ports for HTTP in devstack
> * is part of a series of changes[1] which gets the compute api working
>   under WSGI, including some devref for wsgi use:
>   https://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/wsgi.html
> * helps enforce the idea that any WSGI server is okay
>
> This last point is important consideration for deployers: Although
> devstack will (once the change merges) default to using a
> combination of apache2, mod_proxy_uwsgi, and uwsgi there is zero
> requirement that deployments replicate that arrangement. The new
> 'nova-api-wsgi' and 'nova-metadata-wsgi' script provide a
> module-level 'application' that can be run by any WSGI compliant
> server.
>
> In those contexts things like the path-prefix of an application and
> the port used (if any) to host the application are entirely in the
> domain of the web server's config, not the application. This is
> a good thing, but it does mean that any deployment automation needs
> to make some decisions about how to manipulate the web server's
> configuration.
>
> Some other details which might be relevant:
>
> In the devstack change the compute service is registered to run on a
> default port of either 80 or 443 at '/compute' and _not_ on a custom
> port.
>
> The metadata API, however, continues to run as its own service on
> its own port. In fact, it runs using solely uwsgi, without apache2
> being involved at all.
>
> Please follow up if there any questions.
>
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/457283/
>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/459413/
>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/461289/
>
>
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Thanks for taking the lead on this work Chris (with credit to sdague as 
well for the assist).

-- 

Thanks,

Matt



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