[Openstack] Async API and graceful stop

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Mon Sep 30 13:20:26 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Radek Skokan
<radek.skokan.conf at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am wondering if is there support for asynchronous operation in the REST
> API. Particularly I am looking at start and stop server operations.
>
> For the stop operation, if I'm not mistaken, it is realized as a Nova
> extension "os-stop". Is there any documentation for it?
>

Here's the link to the documentation for that extension:
http://api.openstack.org/api-ref-compute.html#ext-os-server-start-stop


>
> Is it possible to issue a graceful/soft stop, something like for reboot:
> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-compute/2/content/Reboot_Server-d1e3371.html
> ?
>
> In this case the async API would be useful as stopping the machine would
> take some time.
>
> Thanks,
> Radek
>
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