[Openstack-operators] New to Open Stack - shutdown vs terminate

Mike Marrotte marrotte at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 11:47:08 UTC 2011


Sure.  Just install the euca2ools on the guest and write a script.

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On Jul 1, 2011, at 1:07 AM, <Terry.Rankine at csiro.au> wrote:

> Hi Guys
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> I am building an ‘worker image’ for an on-demand specific ‘compute this’ workflow.
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> The image is totally aware of its success or failure of the ‘compute this’ task, and uploads its output back to S3 storage.
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> Since the VM is the best thing to know about success/failure, I figure it should also be the right thing to determine its end of life (shutdown-dont destroy on failure for debugging, and shutdown-terminate-release on success).
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> I would like it to automatically shutdown (and terminate releasing all resources it held – public IP etc) on success, and I would like the VM itself be able to do this. A ‘shutdown –h now’ put the image into shutdown mode, but not terminated and never released the held resources.
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> Is it possible for the VM to ‘shutdown and terminate’ itself?
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> Terry
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