[kolla] Updating libvirt container images without VM downtime

Danny Webb Danny.Webb at thehutgroup.com
Wed Jan 5 09:30:06 UTC 2022


If working properly the restart of the libvirtd container is a non-impacting action for running VMs.  The only containers on the hypervisors that have an actual impact on the VMs in the standard setups are the restart of the ovs-vswitchd / ovn-controller / ovsdb containers which result in a small blip of the VM neworks that we've noticed.
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From: J-P Methot <jp.methot at planethoster.info>
Sent: 04 January 2022 19:17
To: openstack-discuss <openstack-discuss at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: [kolla] Updating libvirt container images without VM downtime

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Hi,

I'm looking for validation regarding the way Kolla and containers work
in regard to upgrading the libvirt containers. Essentially, when you
upgrade the libvirt container to a new container image, the container
needs to be restarted, thus creating downtime for the VMs. There is no
way to avoid this downtime, unless you migrate the VMs to another node
and then move them back once the container has restarted, right?

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Jean-Philippe Méthot
Senior Openstack system administrator
Administrateur système Openstack sénior
PlanetHoster inc.



Danny Webb
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
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