Tag Archives: openstack

November 4, 2019
11:30
by: Dan

Start and Monitor Image Pre-cache Operations in Nova

When you boot an instance in Nova, you provide a reference to an image. In many cases, once Nova has selected a host, the virt driver on that node downloads the image from Glance and uses it as the basis … Continue reading →

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March 3, 2016
11:05
by: Dan

Evacuate in nova: one command to confuse us all

If you’ve ever used OpenStack Nova, you’ve probably at least seen our plethora of confusing commands that involve migrating instances away from a failing (or failed) compute host. If you are brave, you’ve tried to use one or more of … Continue reading →

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June 26, 2015
16:12
by: Dan

Upgrading Nova to Kilo with minimal downtime

Starting in Icehouse, Nova gained the ability to do partial live upgrades. This first step meant that control services (which are mostly stateless) could be upgraded along with database schema before any of the compute nodes. After that step was … Continue reading →

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July 20, 2013
01:04
by: Dan

A brief overview of Nova’s new object model (Part 3)

In parts one and two, I talked about the reasoning for developing an object model inside of Nova, as well as showed a sample implementation for a toy object. In this part, I will examine parts of some “real” objects … Continue reading →

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July 10, 2013
23:14
by: Dan

A tool for watching Zuul and Jenkins

In my work on OpenStack Nova, I often have multiple patches in flight somewhere on the CI system. When patches are first submitted (or resubmitted) they go into Zuul’s “check” queue for a first pass of the tests. After a … Continue reading →

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April 22, 2013
21:45
by: Dan

Dan’s Partial Summary of the Nova Track

Last week, OpenStack developers met in Portland, OR for the Havana Design Summit. Being mostly focused on Nova development, I spent almost all of my time in that track. Below are some observations not yet covered by other folks. Baremetal … Continue reading →

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February 7, 2013
22:32
by: Dan

All your DB are belong to conductor

Well, it’s done. Hopefully. Over the last year, Nova has had a goal of removing direct database access from nova-compute. This has a lot of advantages, especially around security and rolling upgrade abilities, but also brings some complexity and change. Much … Continue reading →

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