This is mostly directed at operators but I'm cross-posting to the ops
and dev lists.
First, does anyone use the os-hosts API and if so, for what use cases?
The os-hosts and os-services APIs are very similar, and they work on the
same resources (the 'services' records in the nova database).
Both APIs allow you to list services and show details for a specific
service.
Both APIs allow you to enable and disable a service so instances will
not be scheduled to that service (compute host).
There are some additional 'action' APIs that are specific to the
os-hosts API, which are:
1. Putting the service (host) into maintenance mode. This is only
implemented by the XenServer virt driver and despite the description in
the support matrix [1] I'm told that it doesn't actually evacuate all of
the guests from the host, it just sets a flag in the Xen management
console, and is therefore pretty useless. Regardless, we have other APIs
that allow you to do the same thing which are supported across all virt
drivers, which would be disabling a service and then migrating the
instances off that host.
2. Reboot host. This is only supported by the XenServer and Hyper-v
drivers. This is also arguably something that does not need to live in
the compute API. As far as I know, the backing drivers do no
orchestration of dealing with guests in the nova database when
performing a reboot of the host. The compute service for that host may
be temporarily disabled by the service group health check which would
take it out of scheduling decisions, and the guests would be down, but
the periodic task which checks for unexpectedly stopped instances runs
in the nova-compute service, which might be dead now so the nova API
would show the instances as running when in fact they are actually stopped.
3. Shutdown host. Same as #2 for reboot host.
4. Start host. This is literally not supported by any in-tree virt
drivers. The only drivers that implement the 'host_power_action' method
are XenServer and Hyper-v and they do not support the 'startup' action.
Since this is an RPC call from nova-api to nova-compute, you will at
least get a 501 error response indicating it is not supported or
implemented (even though 501 is the wrong response for something like this).
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So is anyone using any of these APIs? As noted, only Xen users can use
the maintenance mode API but I'm told it's useless. Which leaves the
stop/reboot power action APIs, which are only for XenServer and Hyper-v.
Are there any users of those drivers that use those APIs and if so, why?
If no one uses any of those power action or maintenance APIs, then we
propose to deprecate the os-hosts API. The list/show/enable/disable APIs
are already covered by the os-services API which we actually intend to
improve [2] so those would be the replacement.
[1]
https://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/support-matrix.html#operation_maintenance_mode
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/447149/
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Thanks,
Matt
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