Re: [Openstack-operators] Cinder HA with zookeeper or redis?

2018-09-10 Thread James Penick
9/2018 10:58 PM, Adam Spiers wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > James Penick wrote: > >> Hey folks, > >> Does anyone have experience using zookeeper or redis to handle HA > >> failover > >> in cinder clusters? > > > > I'm guessing you m

[Openstack-operators] Cinder HA with zookeeper or redis?

2018-09-06 Thread James Penick
Hey folks, Does anyone have experience using zookeeper or redis to handle HA failover in cinder clusters? I know there's docs on pacemaker, however we already have the other two installed and don't want to add yet another component to package and maintain in our clusters. Thanks! -James _

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova] [neutron] Should we continue providing FQDNs for instance hostnames?

2017-09-08 Thread James Penick
I rely on cloud-init to set my hostnames. I have a number of internal systems which rely on a machine knowing its own hostname. In particular, at least one of my configuration management systems requires that a host pass its fqdn to an API to fetch its CM data, so grabbing hostnames and configurin

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova][ironic][scheduler][placement] IMPORTANT: Getting rid of the automated reschedule functionality

2017-05-23 Thread James Penick
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Edward Leafe wrote: > > > Oh please, not Nova. The last word that comes to mind when thinking about > Nova code is “porcelain”. > Oh I dunno, porcelain is usually associated with so many every day objects. If we really push, we could see a movement in the right

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova][ironic][scheduler][placement] IMPORTANT: Getting rid of the automated reschedule functionality

2017-05-23 Thread James Penick
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > > If Heat was more widely deployed, would you feel this way? Would you > reconsider having Heat as one of those "basic compute services" in > OpenStack, then? > > (Caveat: I haven't looked at Heat in at least a year) I haven't deployed heat in m

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova][ironic][scheduler][placement] IMPORTANT: Getting rid of the automated reschedule functionality

2017-05-22 Thread James Penick
In the case of baremetal in our environment, when a boot attempt fails we mark that node as being in maintenance mode, which prevents Nova from scheduling to it a second time. Then automation comes along and files repair tickets for the bad hardware. Only when a human or other automation fixes the

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova][ironic][scheduler][placement] IMPORTANT: Getting rid of the automated reschedule functionality

2017-05-22 Thread James Penick
l a parent cell, just not a hypervisor within the child cell. On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 05/22/2017 02:45 PM, James Penick wrote: > > > During the summit the agreement was, if I recall, that reschedules would > > happen within a cell, and not betw

Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova][ironic][scheduler][placement] IMPORTANT: Getting rid of the automated reschedule functionality

2017-05-22 Thread James Penick
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > Hi Ops, > > Hi! > > For class b) causes, we should be able to solve this issue when the > placement service understands affinity/anti-affinity (maybe Queens/Rocky). > Until then, we propose that instead of raising a Reschedule when an > affin

Re: [Openstack-operators] glance, nova backed by NFS

2016-10-12 Thread James Penick
Are you backing both glance and nova-compute with NFS? If you're only putting the glance store on NFS you don't need any special changes. It'll Just Work. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Curtis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Kris G. Lindgren > wrote: > > We don’t use shared storag

Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev] [all] A proposal to separate the design summit

2016-02-22 Thread James Penick
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Matt Fischer wrote: > Cross-post to openstack-operators... > > As an operator, there's value in me attending some of the design summit > sessions to provide feedback and guidance. But I don't really need to be in > the room for a week discussing minutiae of implem

[Openstack-operators] Managing pools of pre-allocated instances

2015-02-25 Thread James Penick
Hey folks, I have a team that uses our OpenStack VM and BM clusters in their CI and CD environments (And yes, they really do need baremetal for some of their CI tests, unless I want to support gigantifriggenormous VM flavors).   CI on baremetal works ok, however the time it takes to image the hos

Re: [Openstack-operators] Proposal for an 'Operations' project

2014-11-06 Thread James Penick
Earlier today Jay Pipes mentioned that he had some rsyslog config examples for Doing Useful Things with openstack logs. This would be another useful place to store such things.  Another thing worth tracking would be one off ops-task tooling. Those little shell scripts we've all written to true u