[nova][neutron][ptg] Summary: Leaking resources when ports are deleted out-of-band

Matt Riedemann mriedemos at gmail.com
Fri May 3 22:10:46 UTC 2019


On 5/3/2019 3:35 PM, Balázs Gibizer wrote:
> 2) Matt had a point after the session that if Neutron enforces that
> only unbound port can be deleted then not only Nova needs to be changed
> to unbound a port before delete it, but possibly other Neutron
> consumers (Octavia?).

And potentially Zun, there might be others, Magnum, Heat, idk?

Anyway, this is a thing that has been around forever which admins 
shouldn't do, do we need to prioritize making this change in both 
neutron and nova to make two requests to delete a bound port? Or is just 
logging the ERROR that you've leaked allocations, tsk tsk, enough? I 
tend to think the latter is fine until someone comes along saying this 
is really hurting them and they have a valid use case for deleting bound 
ports out of band from nova.

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Thanks,

Matt



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