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On 07/17/2018 08:13 AM, Flint WALRUS wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm a trying to install Octavia as a new service on our cloud 
> and facing few issues that I've been able to manage so far, until this 
> nova-api keypair related issue.
> 
> When creating a loadbalancer with the following command:
> 
> openstack --os-cloud <MyCLOUD> loadbalancer create --name lb1 
> --vip-network-id <NETID>
> 
> My loadbalancer is in ERROR state with the following error from the NOVA 
> API logs:
> 
> 2018-07-17 14:03:58.721 25812 INFO nova.api.openstack.wsgi 
> [req-69713077-c1e9-409a-9f9b-e3d5fb8006fc - - - - -] HTTP exception 
> thrown: Invalid key_name provided.
> 
> 2018-07-17 14:03:58.723 25812 INFO nova.osapi_compute.wsgi.server 
> [req-69713077-c1e9-409a-9f9b-e3d5fb8006fc - - - - -] 
> 10.1.0.10,172.21.0.21 "POST 
> /v2.1/8dfa9231b14545bbab9d222c4425dd2f/servers HTTP/1.1" status: 400 
> len: 489 time: 0.8432851
> 
>  From my understanding of the nova-api source code it seems to be 
> related to nova-api not being able to found out the expected ssh 
> keypair, however if I'm doing:
> 
> openstack --os-cloud <MyCLOUD> keypair list
> 
> I'm correctly seing the octavia_ssh_key entry for my user.
> 
> Has anyone already made it work using kolla?
> On a side note, I'm using stable/queens branch for both kolla docker 
> images and kolla-ansible.

Don't know how kolla handles it, but I'm fairly sure that the ssh key 
has to be created/owned by the user that creates the amphora instances, 
which is not the same as the user that creates the load-balancer. I 
believe it's the user specified in the service_auth section of octavia.conf.

     ~iain