[Openstack] heat autoscaling group/instance relationships

Aaron Knister aaron.knister at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 01:45:49 UTC 2014


Awesome! Thank you Mike! Is there any way to programmatically determine if a given stack resource contains nested stacks? I guess the simplest thing to do is to query a given stack resource as it's own stack and see what comes back. 

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> On Jun 10, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Mike Spreitzer <mspreitz at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Aaron Knister <aaron.knister at gmail.com> wrote on 06/10/2014 02:40:09 PM:
> 
> > I'm trying to figure out how to determine all instances that were 
> > created as part of a given autoscaling group. I want to take a given
> > autoscaling group and list all of its instances. So far I can't 
> > figure out how to do this. The instances themselves have a tag 
> > called "AutoScalingGroupName" (mystack-MyServerGroup-f3r72ifsj2jq 
> > for example) but the value of that doesn't seem to map to anything. 
> > A resource-show on the autoscaling group doesn't seem to show any 
> > identifier that maps to the autoscaling group name. 
> 
> > Any ideas on how I can do this?
> 
> Each of the four kinds of scaling group (InstanceGroup, ResourceGroup, and both AutoScalingGroups) is a nested stack.  List its members the same way you would list the members of any nested stack.  E.g., on the CLI, 
> 
> heat resource-list ${name or UUID of the nested stack} 
> 
> That will give you a disappointing listing.  You can get a little more info about a given member by 
> 
> heat resource-show ${name or UUID of the nested stack} ${member name} 
> 
> That will still be disappointing.  But it will include the "physical ID" --- which is the UUID, and you already know how to get what you want from that. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Mike
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