>-----Original Message----- >From: Clint Byrum [mailto:cl...@fewbar.com] >Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:24 PM >To: openstack-dev >Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [heat] Custom Flavor creation through Heat > >Excerpts from Kodam, Vijayakumar (EXT-Tata Consultancy Ser - FI/Espoo)'s >message of 2013-11-12 09:25:19 -0800: >> Hi, >> >> In Telecom Cloud applications, the requirements for every application are >> different. One application might need 10 CPUs, 10GB RAM and no disk. Another >> application might need 1 CPU, 512MB RAM and 100GB >>Disk. This varied >> requirements directly affects the flavors which need to be created for >> different applications (virtual instances). Customer has his own custom >> requirements for CPU, RAM and other >>hardware requirements. So, based on >> the requests from the customers, we believe that the flavor creation should >> be done along with the instance creation, just before the instance is >> created. Most of >>flavors will be specific to that application and >> therefore will not be suitable by other instances. >> >> The obvious way is to allow users to create flavors and boot customized >> instances through Heat. As of now, users can launch instances through heat >> along with predefined nova flavors only. We have made >>some changes in our >> setup and tested it. This change allows creation of customized nova flavors >> using heat templates. We are also using extra-specs in the flavors for use >> in our private cloud >>deployment. >> This gives an option to the user to mention custom requirements for the >> flavor in the heat template directly along with the instance details. There >> is one problem in the nova flavor creation using >>heat templates. Admin >> privileges are required to create nova flavors. There should be a way to >> allow a normal user to create flavors. >> >> Your comments and suggestions are most welcome on how to handle this problem >> !!!
>Seems like you just need to setup your Nova policy to allow a role to do >flavor creation: > >"compute_extension:flavormanage": "rule:admin_api", >"compute_extension:v3:flavor-manage": "rule:admin_api", > >And then enhance Heat to make those API calls. There must be some valid reason for adding those checks in the Nova Policy. I would like to understand the implications before making any changes. Regards, VijayKumar _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
