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Bug #2270

Unable to create instances on OpenStack without floating IPs

Added by Anonymous about 10 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

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Priority:
Normal
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Host creation
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Description

Ohad, after our chat in the channel I cloned the develop branch (ca8e438b88260e9c1fd2847726bbb7d05d92ad18) and with that I'm able to create hosts as long as a floating IP is chosen. But without a floating IP the host creation process does not move past the "running - Acquiring IP address for testwithoutfloatip.ohmy.com" phase. It eventually times out and fails with "Unable to save. Failed to get IP for".

From the logs: http://pastie.org/6363087

The host is created on the OpenStack side though: http://pastie.org/6363089


Related issues

Related to Foreman - Bug #4616: Problems provisioning hosts in EC2 with 1.4.1-2Closed2014-03-10
Related to Foreman - Bug #4710: Problems provisioning hosts in Rackspace with 1.4.1-2Closed2014-03-19
Has duplicate Foreman - Bug #3252: launching openstack VMs adds the external networkDuplicate2013-10-15

Associated revisions

Revision 1b110b37 (diff)
Added by Greg Sutcliffe about 9 years ago

Fixes #2270 - Detect all OpenStack IPs and test which allows SSH

Revision eb1bba78 (diff)
Added by Greg Sutcliffe about 9 years ago

Fixes #2270 - Detect all OpenStack IPs and test which allows SSH

(cherry picked from commit 1b110b37dd4a332ee0682e33daaaa848da8bcad7)

Revision 346b20ee (diff)
Added by Greg Sutcliffe almost 9 years ago

Fixes #4710, #2270 - Wait for VM to become ready before looking for IPs

History

#1 Updated by Anonymous about 10 years ago

I forgot to mention that Foreman, along with the proxy, puppetmaster, and bind are running on a VM in the same private network as the testwithoutfloatip.ohmy.com host.

#2 Updated by Mateusz Kisielewski about 10 years ago

Same problem here:

Failed to get IP for ubuntu006.<domain_name>: The specified wait_for timeout (600 seconds) was exceeded/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fog-1.9.0/lib/fog/core/wait_for.rb:10:in `wait_for'
...
Rolling back due to a problem: Acquiring IP address for ubuntu006.<domain_name> 2 failed ubuntu006.<<domain_name> setComputeIP
Removing Compute instance for ubuntu006.<domain_name>
Failed to destroy a compute Openstack (OpenStack) instance ubuntu006.<domain_name>: ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound/usr/share/foreman/app/models/compute_resource.rb:104:in `find_vm_by_uuid'
...
Failed to save: Failed to get IP for ubuntu006.<domain_name>: The specified wait_for timeout (600 seconds) was exceeded,
Failed to destroy a compute Openstack (OpenStack) instance ubuntu006.<domain_name>: ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound

Greetings,
SCR

#3 Updated by Ohad Levy about 10 years ago

  • Priority changed from High to Normal

what would be the right behavior then? go over all floating ips and fixed ip to try to connect?

#4 Updated by Anonymous about 10 years ago

That's a good question. How about Foreman doesn't use a floating IP to communicate with a host unless explicitly instructed to do so (even though the user has selected a floating IP network from the drop down list)? Perhaps with a "Manage this host using its floating IP?" checkbox during the host creation phase.

In a typical OpenStack cluster the fixed address pool is larger than the floating IP one. It's probably reasonable to assume that most hosts will communicate with other hosts using their fixed IPs on the internal network -- for provisioning, monitoring, log collection, DNS, etc. A smaller subset of hosts will have floating IPs attached if they have to provide services to the outside world but those are the exceptions and will still use their fixed IPs.

Thoughts?

#5 Updated by Sam Kottler about 10 years ago

The only problem with not using the floating IP is that the VM may not be on a network that's accessible to Foreman. Maybe we could allow the user to choose either globally or on a host by host basis whether to connect to the internal address or floating IP?

#6 Updated by Anonymous about 10 years ago

Sam Kottler wrote:

Maybe we could allow the user to choose either globally or on a host by host basis whether to connect to the internal address or floating IP?

I can't comment on how granular the config option should be but I do feel it's reasonable to allow the user to state a preference, either globally or per host, for using the fixed or floating IP. Doing so allows varying deployments of Foreman/OpenStack be catered for.

#7 Updated by Ohad Levy about 10 years ago

sounds like we have a few options (the same solution is probably true to all cloud providers)

  1. use all ip addresses of the system to try and find it
  2. let the user select the network per compute resource (not makes a whole lot of sense per vm imho)

another option which i have not yet thought much of, is using similar idea to multiple nics on Bare metal? and mapping those networks to something foreman can consume?

#8 Updated by Anonymous about 10 years ago

Being able to specify the network for each compute resource makes sense.

Just to clarify, being able to allocate a floating IP to an instance is still a great feature to have in Foreman even if the private address is being used for managing it. Otherwise one would need to use external tools (nova CLI, for example) to assign a floating IP to an instance that Foreman created. Currently that's what I use to attach Cinder volumes to instances which means Foreman isn't used entirely for the provisioning process.

#9 Updated by Cédric Jeanneret over 9 years ago

Hello,

We're hitting the very same problem in our infra using foreman 1.2. Just one (probably) stupid question, but why can't foreman ask the IP directly to openstack? Openstack API is well formed, and can return the wanted information.

Some details: when we create a new instance (using nova commands), we get the instance id, like "90fe2237-fab3-4519-b4be-b64ca8a358ee" - this can be used later in order to get the dynamic IP provisioned by openstack… This nova command may be of some use in order to find how to ask it I guess:

nova interface-list <hostname|instance_id>

This will return:
+------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+
| Port State | Port ID                              | Net ID                               | IP addresses | MAC Address |
+------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+
| ACTIVE     | 8e8958ba-b5ff-4373-9324-26b862d352e4 | 5b67e329-266c-4553-a6f8-fb7793cb5454 | 10.27.70.16  |             |
+------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+

There's no "we have to search the whole subet/network" stuff… Just use the openstack restful API.

NOTE: the nova interface-list will not return floating IP attached to the host

This is a major problem I think, as we cannot provision instances with non-floating IP directly from Foreman - we have to start it in Openstack, then do all the foreman stuff by hand in order to make the instance known… not really suitable I think.

Cheers,

C.

#10 Updated by Greg Sutcliffe over 9 years ago

  • Has duplicate Bug #3252: launching openstack VMs adds the external network added

#11 Updated by Andy Taylor over 9 years ago

As we've started using Openstack we've run into the same issue.

From our perspective the simplest fix would be a setting in the Compute Resource - whether to use the fixed or floating IP of the VM. That way you can always have multiple Compute Resources if you want some VMs to have fixed, some floating.

Also I think automatic determination of the VM IP addresses could end up being fairly messy. Foreman would be connecting to some VMs via the fixed and some via the floating.

#12 Updated by cristian falcas over 9 years ago

I would prefer to choose which network is for foreman. In cases with multiple private networks per vm, probably only one will be for foreman management.

Also, the fix for our case (flat network, so no floating ip) is very siumple. In /usr/share/foreman/app/models/compute_resources/foreman/model/openstack.rb change:
super.merge({ :ip => :floating_ip_address })
to
super.merge({ :ip => :private_ip_address })

Sucks if you have other compute resources where foreman is accessing the machines only through the external network.

#13 Updated by Greg Sutcliffe about 9 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Status changed from New to Assigned
  • Assignee changed from Ohad Levy to Greg Sutcliffe

#14 Updated by Dominic Cleal about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Ready For Testing
  • Target version set to 1.9.2

#15 Updated by Anonymous about 9 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.9.2 to 1.9.1

#16 Updated by Dominic Cleal about 9 years ago

  • Legacy Backlogs Release (now unused) set to 5

#17 Updated by Greg Sutcliffe about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

#18 Updated by Dominic Cleal about 9 years ago

  • Related to Bug #4616: Problems provisioning hosts in EC2 with 1.4.1-2 added

#19 Updated by Dominic Cleal about 9 years ago

  • Legacy Backlogs Release (now unused) changed from 5 to 4

We've had a couple of follow-on issues (#4616, #4710) which means I'm reverting this fix in Foreman 1.4.2. It seems the code actually had errors which meant it probably didn't work. We're working on updating this for Foreman 1.5.0 via #4710 and to ensure we don't break other compute resource providers.

#20 Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago

  • Related to Bug #4710: Problems provisioning hosts in Rackspace with 1.4.1-2 added

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