Nova has supported listing the fixed ips for a single host for a while. Well, except for that time we broke it by removing the database call it used and not noticing. My change to fix that situation has just landed, so this should now work again. To list the fixed ips used on a…
Month: April 2013
Michael’s surprisingly unreliable predictions for the Havana Nova release
I should start out by saying that because OpenStack is an open source project, it is hard to know exactly what will land in Havana — the developers are volunteers, and sometimes things get in the way of them doing the work they intended. However, these are the notes I wrote up on the high…
Getting started with OpenStack development
I just gave my presentation at the Havana Conference about how to get started with OpenStack development. A few people asked for my slide deck, so I am posting it here. The talk was taped, and I am sure some more formal release will happen in the future, but I wanted to get this out…
Faster pip installs
Last week with the help of the lovely openstack-infra people, I discovered that you can have a local cache of pip downloads. This speeds up rebuilding test environments when you need to jump between branches with different dependencies. Its as simple as chucking something like: export PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE=~/cache/pip …into your .bashrc or equivalent.
Merged in Havana: configurable iptables drop actions in nova
LaunchPad bug 1013893 asked nicely if the drop action for iptables rules created by nova-network could be configured. The idea here is that you might want to do something other than a plain old drop — for example logging before dropping. This has now been implemented in Havana. To configure the drop action, set the…