Open Stack

Hi,

Echoing this request - it's very handy on Amazon EC2 when a shutdown -h 
now command results in instance termination.

Is there a reason for the difference in OpenStack, or is this just how 
it was implemented? :)


I'd probably be writing a cron script to look at the database to 
'terminate' instances in 'shutdown' state and thereby freeing their 
resources...


Regards,

Tom

On 07/03/2011 11:44 PM, Terry.Rankine at csiro.au wrote:
> Wont it need my EC2 credentials on the VM then?
>
> The credentials used to start the VM are not stored on the VM. I guess I can pass them in via the start-up string, but I would prefer if there was another way.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Terry
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> Sure.  Just install the euca2ools on the guest and write a script.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jul 1, 2011, at 1:07 AM,<Terry.Rankine at csiro.au<mailto:Terry.Rankine at csiro.au>>  wrote:
>
> Hi Guys
> I am building an ‘worker image’ for an on-demand specific ‘compute this’ workflow.
> The image is totally aware of its success or failure of the ‘compute this’ task, and uploads its output back to S3 storage.
> 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).
> 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.
> Is it possible for the VM to ‘shutdown and terminate’ itself?
> Terry
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