[Openstack] how to use extra_specs??

David Kang dkang at isi.edu
Tue Nov 6 14:49:22 UTC 2012



 Victor,

 You raised a very good point.
If you want to use any existing flag, what Razique said is OK.
But if you want to add new key value pairs, I don't think the current nova-compute can do that.
Especially if you are using the currnent nova/virt/libvirt as compute driver, you cannot.

 In our bare-metal provisioning effort, our compute driver nova/virt/bm defines a new flag
called "instance_type_extra_specs" in /etc/nova/nova.conf.
Any key value pairs can be specified there.
For example, for TileEmpower board we declare the flag as follows:

instance_type_extra_specs=cpu_arch:tilepro64

 Our bare-metal provisioning code is still in review.

 David

----- Original Message -----
> Yes sure,
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> But in this example you use an existing key “free_ram_rmb”?! Ist that
> right?
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> What I want to do is to create my own key value paris for compute
> nodes (who can I do that) and for the extra_specs variable of the
> flavors
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> Best Regards
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> Viktor
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> From: i Mahroua [mailto:razique.mahroua at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:49 AM
> To: Mauch, Viktor (SCC)
> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] how to use extra_specs??
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> You can also use the cli, does the job too
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> nova boot --flavor 1 --image 1f3fbdde-4c8a-4b3b-9cf1-a3b9fd0f1d9e
> --key_name key1 --hint query='[">=", "free_ram_mb", 1024]' vm1
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> Nuage & Co - Razique Mahroua
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> razique.mahroua at gmail.com
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> Le 6 nov. 2012 à 11:46, "Mauch, Viktor (SCC)" < mauch at kit.edu > a
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> Or being more specific,
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> How can a add key/value pairs to a compute node???
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> So I can check the extra_specs data with the key/value paris of the
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> Cheers Viktor
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> From: openstack-bounces+mauch=kit.edu at lists.launchpad.net
> [mailto:openstack- bounces+mauch=kit.edu at lists.launchpad.net ] On
> Behalf Of Mauch, Viktor (SCC)
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:37 AM
> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] how to use extra_specs??
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> Just one more noob question.
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> Is it normal that If I set a set key/value pair let’s say
> {“my_special_key”:”my_special_value”} to an existing flavor, that the
> scheduler failed to find a host for an instance of this flavor.
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> (I use devstack with folsom stable code)
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> Cheers Viktor
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> From: Vinay Bannai [ mailto:vbannai at gmail.com ]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:09 AM
> To: Mauch, Viktor (SCC)
> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] how to use extra_specs??
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> The simplest way would be to create key/value pairs for flavor types
> (instance types).
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> This information would be associated in a separate table in nova db
> (instance_type_extra_specs) and would go along with the instance type.
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> Once it is in the database, you can use this information to customize
> all kinds of things like the nova scheduler, additional data that can
> be passed to the instance at the time of the creation. This is the
> high level overview. If you search the mailing list archives you will
> find some additional discussion about this topic.
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> Vinay
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> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Mauch, Viktor (SCC) < mauch at kit.edu >
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> Hi guys,
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> can anyone tell me (with an example) how to use the extra_specs
> variable for an instance_type??
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> Best Regards
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> Viktor
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