[nova][ironic][ptg] Resource tracker scaling issues

Dan Smith dms at danplanet.com
Tue Nov 12 16:12:49 UTC 2019


> Hi, using several cells for the Ironic deployment would be great
> however it doesn't work with the current architecture.  The nova
> ironic driver gets all the nodes available in Ironic. This means that
> if we have several cells all of them will report the same nodes!  The
> other possibility is to have a dedicated Ironic instance per cell, but
> in this case it will be very hard to manage a large deployment.

That's a problem for more reasons than just your scale. However, doesn't
this solve that problem?

https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/stein/implemented/ironic-conductor-groups.html

--Dan



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