[Openstack] [Quantum][Nova] requested_id and port spec

Dan Wendlandt dan at nicira.com
Tue Jul 31 07:15:06 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Nati Ueno <nati.ueno at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi  Matt, Yong, Dan and folks
>
> > Matt
> Thank you for your comment in launchpad
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031096
>

Quantum team get consensus in a Netstack meeting today to propose
>  port-id for requested networks. I took the job.
> At first, i thought i can write extension for this. But as you say
>  we should add port-id for the core API which is only used for quantum API
> 2.0.
>

Hi Nachi, why is it that we can't implement this as an API extension (even
if passing in a network-id is in fact part of the core API)?

dan



> My WIP code is like [1]. This change keep backward compatibility.
>
> > Yong, Dan
> Matt said "you'd be breaking API compatibility and thus the API spec."
>
> This work will change API, so some consensus in community is needed to
> add port_id.
> I wanna discuss about the spec in this thread.
> If the community rejects this addition, I'll implement fixed_ip one
>  ( see previous my message )
>
> [1] WIP code for adding port_id ( Not tested)
>
> +    def _get_port(self, port_id):
> +        if FLAGS.network_api_class !=
> +        "nova.network.quantumv2.api.API":
> +            msg = _("Unknown argment : port_id")
> +            raise exc.HTTPBadRequest(explanation=msg)
> +
> +        if port_id and not utils.is_uuid_like(port_id):
> +            msg = _("Bad port format: port uuid is "
> +                    "not in proper format "
> +                    "(%s)") % port_id
> +            raise exc.HTTPBadRequest(explanation=msg)
> +        try:
> +            port =
> quantumv2.get_client(context).list_networks(**search_opts)
> +            if port.device_id:
> +                raise Exception("Port id %s is already used" % port_id)
> +            return port
> +        except Exception as e:
> +            msg = _("This port_id can't used "
> +                    "(%s)") % port_id
> +            raise exc.HTTPBadRequest(explanation=msg)
> +
>      def _get_requested_networks(self, requested_networks):
>          """Create a list of requested networks from the networks
> attribute."""
>          networks = []
>          for network in requested_networks:
>              try:
> +                port_id = network.get('port_id', None)
> +                if port_id:
> +                    port = self._get_port()
> +                    network['uuid'] = port.network_id
> +                    network['fixed_ip'] = port.fixed_ip
> +
>
> Thank you in advance
> Nachi Ueno
>
> >> Hi Nachi,
> >> It is seemingly a way to make it work, but I think we are thinking to
> >> provide 'port-id' or just 'port' to specify the top resource in quantum
> API.
> >> fix ip is not one.
> >>
> >> Besides, Port can be assigned to more than one fixed IP.
> >
> >Ah, It it true.
> >OK I'll implement port id version.
> >
> >> Imagine in horizon, we created many networks, ports and subnets, but
> when
> >> booting a VM, we use a fixed_ip to specify our resource indirectly.
> >
> >> By the way, we should use openstack-dev at list.openstack.org
> >
> >Sorry, I changed my mail address recently. But  launchpad rejects new
> >mail to receive.
> >I'll find way to fix this.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >Nachi
> >
> >> Thanks
> >> Yong Sheng Gong
> >>
> >> -----netstack-bounces+gongysh=cn.ibm.com at lists.launchpad.net wrote:
> -----
> >> To: openstack at lists.openstack.org, netstack at lists.launchpad.net
> >> From: Nachi Ueno
> >> Sent by: netstack-bounces+gongysh=cn.ibm.com at lists.launchpad.net
> >> Date: 07/31/2012 08:33AM
> >> Subject: [Netstack] [Quantum][Nova] requested_id and port spec
> >>
> >> Hi Dan,folks
> >>
> >> As we talked in netstack IRC meetins, I submit this as bug.
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031096
> >>
> >> I tried to write this, but  the code looks very ugly in order to keep
> >> backward compatibility.
> >> So I wanna propose an alternative design.
> >> In this design, we will use fixed_ip as a temporary identifier of the
> port.
> >>
> >> 1. create port
> >>    fixed_ip assigned
> >>
> >> 2. specify  the fixed_ip in nova boot
> >>
> >> 3. If the fixed_ip is specified,
> >>   nova.network.quantumv2.api.API will check existing port who use the
> >> fixed_ip.
> >>
> >>   if there are existing port and device_id is None
> >>       use the port_id.
> >>
> >>   if there are no existing port.
> >>        create new port with the fixed_ip
> >>
> >> This approach needs no client side change.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance
> >> Nachi Ueno
> >>
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> >--
> >Nachi Ueno
> >email:nati.ueno at gmail.com
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>
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