Hey, As I'm the one who found this bug I'd like to take a stab at coding a solution. The JIRA issue can be found here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-607 It's currently marked as not assigned to anyone but I didn't know if anyone had done any preliminary work looking at this and/or is doing anything behind the scenes and/or has any ideas as to best go about solving the issue. Taking a look at things my thinking was going this direction (this is a thousand foot POV so I don't have all the nitty-gritty details worked out yet just an idea): 1.) Add method 'floatingIpPoolNames(Set<String>)' to NovaTemplateOptions. 2.) This of course will be passed to a Template via 'Template.options(novaTemplateOptions).build()' 3.) Further down the call chain, and in class 'AllocateAndAddFloatingipToNode', and specifically around line 81 which makes a call to 'floatingApi.create()', check if we have any ip-pools defined. Implementation might got something like this: if <some-pools-defined> then: for(String poolName : somePoolIterator) //allows for passing multiple pools ip = floatingApi.allocate(poolName); if ip != null break; else: floatingApi.create() How the NovaTemplateOptions will get from step 2 to 3 I honestly don't know yet as I've not gone through the source but I'm assuming it's relatively painless. Thoughts? Thanks, Chris
