Boston
May 8-11, 2017
Using Cinder for Nova Ephemeral Storage Backend
Operators have asked for a long time for a way to force boot-from-volume always so that their backing block storage is always used rather than local storage on the compute host. Some examples of previous discussions:
- https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/newton/approved/flavor-root-disk-none.html - accepted for Newton but never merged the code (abandoned).
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/create-bdm-from-flavor-extra-specs - pushback on the design since it bakes block device mapping into flavor extra specs, combining two of the worst areas for technical debt in Nova.
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-February/113063.html see "Enable Cinder as an ephemeral storage backend for Nova" section - discussed at the Pike PTG and agreed from the Nova team that this is what we want.
The goal of this session is to get operator feedback and to find out what operators have been doing for this requirement in the past, and to validate what we intend to do on the development side in Pike (option c above).
Tuesday, May 9, 4:40pm-5:20pm (8:40pm - 9:20pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: N/A
Principal Architect - OpenStack
Matt Riedemann works for Huawei in the cloud unit. He has been involved with OpenStack since the Grizzly release primarily doing upstream development. He was the Nova PTL for the Newton, Ocata, Pike and Queens releases and was the first stable branch maintenance team PTL. He continues to be active on the Nova and stable maintenance core teams. He can be found on freenode IRC as mriedem. FULL PROFILE
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