Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2017-10-03 10:53:44 -0500: > We plan on deprecating personality files from the compute API in a new > microversion. The spec for that is here: > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/509013/ > > Today you can pass new personality files to inject during rebuild, and > at the PTG we said we'd allow passing new user_data to rebuild as a > replacement for the personality files. > > However, if the only reason one would need to pass personality files > during rebuild is because we don't persist them during the initial > server create, do we really need to also allow passing user_data for > rebuild? The initial user_data is stored with the instance during > create, and re-used during rebuild, so do we need to allow updating it > during rebuild? >
My personal opinion is that rebuild is an anti-pattern for cloud, and should be frozen and deprecated. It does nothing but complicate Nova and present challenges for scaling. That said, if it must stay as a feature, I don't think updating the user_data should be a priority. At that point, you've basically created an entirely new server, and you can already do that by creating an entirely new server. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
