Gyorgy Szombathelyi <gyorgy.szombathe...@doclerholding.com> wrote:

Hi!

Maybe I'm overseeing something, but I'm wondering if table renames breaks rolling upgrades.

Yes, they would. Do you suggest that we allowed such a migration anywhere in Newton?

E.g. if I'm upgrading neutron server instances one-by-one, and doing a db expand during the process, the old neutron-server instances will continue to work. However, without the new renamed tables, the
new instances won't work.  Just would be good to know:

With the current approach to neutron-server upgrades that neutron team supports, we don’t allow new neutron-servers running while contract phase is not applied yet. The process is documented at:

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/neutron/devref/upgrade.html#server-upgrade

- In this form, why the expand phase is useful? The expanded database won't work with a new server instance, and it is not required for the older ones.

It contains operations that are safe to execute while old neutron-server instances are running. After expansion happens, you must shutdown all neutron-servers, then apply contract phase, then start your new neutron-servers. This is the only scenario currently supported.

- Actually what would be the workflow for a downtime-less upgrade? From Liberty to Mitaka it worked fairly good, even without
using expand-contract.

Depending on what you mean by asking for downtime-less. If it’s data plane wise, current agents should be able to work and upgrade without disrupting any data flows. If you suggest that neutron API should be available at all times, then this scenario is just not supported at this moment.

While your mileage may vary, I really doubt you could safely upgrade L->M without API downtime. You are either lucky, or you just haven’t noticed some failures. The way we currently handle database access does not accommodate for no-downtime upgrade process for api endpoints. We are looking into implementing some form of it in Ocata, but only time will tell if we succeed to deliver. Until then, you can’t avoid API downtime.

Ihar

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