
If any nova compute service fails to register itself, Kolla Ansible will fail the host that queries the Nova API. This is the first compute host in the inventory, and fails in the task: Waiting for nova-compute services to register themselves Other hosts continue, often leading to further errors later on. Clearly this is not idea. This change modifies the behaviour to query the compute service list until all expected hosts are present, but does not fail the querying host if they are not. A new task is added that executes for all hosts, and fails only those hosts that have not registered successfully. Alternatively, to fail all hosts in a cell when any compute service fails to register, set nova_compute_registration_fatal to true. Change-Id: I12c1928cf1f1fb9e28f1741e7fe4968004ea1816 Closes-Bug: #1940119
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Nova - Compute Service
Nova is a core service in OpenStack, and provides compute services. Typically this is via Virtual Machines (VMs), but may also be via bare metal servers if Nova is coupled with Ironic.
Nova is enabled by default, but may be disabled by setting
enable_nova
to no
in
globals.yml
.
Virtualisation Drivers
The virtualisation driver may be selected via
nova_compute_virt_type
in globals.yml
.
Supported options are qemu
, kvm
, and
vmware
. The default is kvm
.
Libvirt
Information on the libvirt-based drivers kvm
and
qemu
can be found in libvirt-guide
.
VMware
Information on the VMware-based driver vmware
can be
found in vmware-guide
.
Bare Metal
Information on using Nova with Ironic to deploy compute instances to
bare metal can be found in ../bare-metal/ironic-guide
.
Fake Driver
The fake driver can be used for testing Nova's scaling properties
without requiring access to a large amount of hardware resources. It is
covered in nova-fake-driver
.
Consoles
The console driver may be selected via nova_console
in
globals.yml
. Valid options are none
,
novnc
and spice
. Additionally, serial console
support can be enabled by setting
enable_nova_serialconsole_proxy
to yes
.
Cells
Information on using Nova Cells V2 to scale out can be found in nova-cells-guide
.
Vendordata
Nova supports passing deployer provided data to instances using a
concept known as Vendordata. If a Vendordata file is located in the
following path within the Kolla configuration, Kolla will automatically
use it when the Nova service is deployed or reconfigured:
/etc/kolla/config/nova/vendordata.json
.
Failure handling
Compute service registration
During deployment, Kolla Ansible waits for Nova compute services to register themselves. By default, if a compute service does not register itself before the timeout, that host will be marked as failed in the Ansible run. This behaviour is useful at scale, where failures are more frequent.
Alternatively, to fail all hosts in a cell when any compute service
fails to register, set nova_compute_registration_fatal
to
true
.