[Openstack] nova-compute and querying keystone for glance endpoint

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Wed Mar 20 03:56:35 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Nathanael Burton <
nathanael.i.burton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Lorin Hochstein <
> lorin at nimbisservices.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All:
>>
>> I was doing a Folsom deployment from scratch, and when I tried to launch
>> an instance my compute host failed to connect to the glance server to
>> download the image, instead it tried to connect to itself.
>>
>> I can resolve this by putting "glance_host=<ip>" into nova.conf. But I'd
>> prefer if my compute host fetched this information from keystone rather
>> than hard-code (hard-configure?) like this.
>>
>> I assume that I don't have the right config in nova.conf (a template for
>> that file is here: <
>> https://github.com/lorin/openstack-ansible/blob/folsom/playbooks/templates/etc/nova/nova.conf>).
>> However, tracing through the nova code, I couldn't figure out where it was
>> that the compute host was supposed to connect to keystone to get the right
>> endpoint for glance.
>>
>> Where in the nova Folsom code does the nova-compute service query the
>> keystone service catalog to get the endpoint for glance?
>>
>>
> Lorin,
>
> I don't believe nova pulls the glance endpoint from keystone's service
> catalog.  I believe it's based on FLAGS.glance_api_servers here
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/folsom/nova/image/glance.py#L73
>
> Nate
>
>
OK, so I'm not crazy, that means that I really do need to do something like:

glance_api_servers=192.168.206.130:9292

or (since the default port is used)

glance_host=192.168.206.130


Lorin
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