Additions of new params to add IP spawning behavior would be reasonable.

(assign_public_ip, True/False, etc)

What might you prefer on names?




On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Kurt Yoder <[email protected]> wrote:

> I dug a bit further. The API does allow min_count and max_count, much the
> way boto does for AWS.
>
> When you submit a request with min_count, your instances are named
> <ansible-provide name>-<instance UUID>. That's acceptable, though not ideal.
>
> I'm taking a look at the Ansible ec2 module, and the code for boto
> instance-launching code looks very different than the nova_compute
> instance-launching code. I haven't run it yet; I need to dig around to find
> my ec2 creds so I can run a test.
>
> The Ansible ec2 module also allows one to assign public IPs while
> launching multiple instances. The Ansible nova_compute module does not
> permit this ATM.
>
>
> On Friday, July 11, 2014 9:50:10 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
>> "So should I make a custom module which loops over nova_compute
>> asynchronously, and also assigns floating IPs?"
>>
>> I'd first rather know where the openstack API allows simultaneous
>> creation of N virtual machines of the same image type.
>>
>> I expect the floating IP stuff is fast and a usual with_items loop isn't
>> a problem there, once those guests exist.
>>
>> (Using neutron, I assume?)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Kurt Yoder <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So should I make a custom module which loops over nova_compute
>>> asynchronously, and also assigns floating IPs?
>>>
>>> Would such a module be useful to the wider community, or is it too
>>> specialized to contribute back?
>>>
>>> On Friday, July 11, 2014 6:34:47 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>>
>>>> So some of the provisioning modules, like AWS in particular, support
>>>> spinning up "N" modules at a time by passing "count" or "exact_count".
>>>>
>>>> Rackspace I believe does this with manual looping (for now), but I
>>>> could be wrong and that might have just been historical truth.
>>>>
>>>> If the OpenStack API says we can launch 10 at once, it could be made to
>>>> do similar things.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Kurt Yoder <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I guess that error is because I put a "with_items" in there.
>>>>>
>>>>> How does everyone else do this? I don't understand how to loop
>>>>> asynchronously. See pseudo-code:
>>>>>
>>>>> < start all 5 at once: >
>>>>>    < start up openstack host >
>>>>>    < assign it a floating ip >
>>>>>    < capture the floating ip >
>>>>> < end when all 5 have a floating ip >
>>>>> < wait for all 5 floating IPs to have an open SSH port >
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, July 11, 2014 5:20:34 PM UTC-4, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, "async" is totally a bust. I got a message:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> fatal: [localhost] => lookup plugins (with_*) cannot be used with
>>>>>> async tasks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:17:48 PM UTC-4, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello list,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I anticipate provisioning 10-20 VMs using Ansible, then assigning
>>>>>>> floating IPs to each, then waiting for SSH to become available for each 
>>>>>>> VM.
>>>>>>> I would like to do this in parallel instead of serially. Specifically:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    - Start the VMs, but don't block
>>>>>>>    - Assign the IPs, but don't block
>>>>>>>    - Wait on SSH until all VMs respond
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I saw the nova_compute "wait: 'no'" option, but when I use it I get
>>>>>>> a stack trace:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> failed: [localhost] => (item=1) => {"failed": true, "item": 1,
>>>>>>>> "parsed": false}
>>>>>>>> invalid output was: Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1405028178.0-234314980043958/nova_compute",
>>>>>>>> line 1490, in <module>
>>>>>>>>     main()
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1405028178.0-234314980043958/nova_compute",
>>>>>>>> line 266, in main
>>>>>>>>     _create_server(module, nova)
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1405028178.0-234314980043958/nova_compute",
>>>>>>>> line 194, in _create_server
>>>>>>>>     private = [ x['addr'] for x in getattr(server,
>>>>>>>> 'addresses').itervalues().next() if x['OS-EXT-IPS:type'] ==
>>>>>>>> 'fixed']
>>>>>>>> StopIteration
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Perhaps I'm using it incorrectly:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - name: Launch cluster VM on Openstack
>>>>>>>>   nova_compute:
>>>>>>>>     name: "{{ os_username }}_cluster1"
>>>>>>>>     state: present
>>>>>>>>     login_username: "{{ os_username }}"
>>>>>>>>     login_tenant_name: "{{ os_tenant }}"
>>>>>>>>     login_password: "{{ os_password }}"
>>>>>>>>     image_id: "{{ os_image_id }}"
>>>>>>>>     key_name: "{{ os_username }}_controller_key"
>>>>>>>>     wait: "no"
>>>>>>>>     flavor_id: "{{ os_flavor_id }}"
>>>>>>>>     auth_url: "{{ os_url }}"
>>>>>>>>     user_data: "#cloud-config\nmanage_etc_hosts: true"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, two questions:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    1. Am I using "wait" correctly?
>>>>>>>    2. Should I use "wait" to get to my desired parallel VM launch,
>>>>>>>    as described above, or should I use something else, e.g. "async"?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Kurt
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