Re: [Openstack] [nova] a proposal to change metadata API data

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Packman
On 24/07/2012, Jay Pipes wrote: > > The OpenStack Compute API POST /servers command creates a server UUID > that is passed back in the initial response and allows the user to query > the status of the server throughout its launch sequence. I'm not really seeing how that improves on the situation

Re: [Openstack] [nova] a proposal to change metadata API data

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Packman
On 23/07/2012, Jay Pipes wrote: > > This is only due to the asinine EC2 API -- or rather the asinine > implementation in EC2 that doesn't create an instance ID before the > instance is launched. So, I'm curious, how do you allocate a server id in advance using the openstack api so you can pass it

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] How to improve our bug triaging ?

2012-06-22 Thread Martin Packman
On 21/06/2012, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > * Should we just encourage more people to do BugTriaging ? > Sounds like the obvious solution. However to do good triaging, you need > bug supervisors rights, and when I proposed to open that team (the > nova-bugs team) to anyone, there was resistance. Mayb

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Server UUID from metadata service?

2012-05-16 Thread Martin Packman
On 16/05/2012, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > AFAIK there isn't a way to get the uuid from the metadata server in essex. > We were also discussing that it might be valuable for the ec2 api to tag the > uuid onto the instance, but that doesn't help for essex either. Thanks, will see if there's anothe

[Openstack] [Nova] Server UUID from metadata service?

2012-05-15 Thread Martin Packman
For juju, I need a snippet of shell that cloud-init can use to get the server id on startup. For the ec2 provider, the following is used: $(curl http://169.254.169.254/1.0/meta-data/instance-id) Is there any way of getting the server's uuid rather than the ec2 style i-08x version? Requests ag

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] EC2 api testing

2012-05-08 Thread Martin Packman
On 04/05/2012, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > Are you going to try to get all of the code for those projects into one > package, or build a meta-tool that downloads the others and uses them? I > don't have an opinion one way or the other, I'm just curious. As Josh says, that's one of the things it woul

[Openstack] [Nova] EC2 api testing

2012-05-04 Thread Martin Packman
At the Folsom Design Summit we discussed[1] trying to collaborate on a test suite for EC2 api support. Currently nova supports the common stuff pretty well has differing behaviour in a lot of edge cases. Having a separate suite, along the lines of tempest, that could be run against other existing c