[openstack-dev] [nova] Hard fail if you try to rename an AZ with instances in it?
Jay Pipes
jaypipes at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 22:35:54 UTC 2018
On 03/28/2018 03:35 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> On 3/27/2018 10:37 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>>
>> If we want to actually fix the issue once and for all, we need to make
>> availability zones a real thing that has a permanent identifier (UUID)
>> and store that permanent identifier in the instance (not the instance
>> metadata).
>>
>> Or we can continue to paper over major architectural weaknesses like
>> this.
>
> Stepping back a second from the rest of this thread, what if we do the
> hard fail bug fix thing, which could be backported to stable branches,
> and then we have the option of completely re-doing this with aggregate
> UUIDs as the key rather than the aggregate name? Because I think the
> former could get done in Rocky, but the latter probably not.
I'm fine with that (and was fine with it before, just stating that
solving the problem long-term requires different thinking)
Best,
-jay
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