[openstack-dev] [nova] Options for using trusted certificates in Nova image signature verification

2016-10-11 Thread Hamilton, Peter A.
Hi everyone, We are interested in improving user trust in the cloud and are currently working on certificate validation for image signatures in Nova. Users can upload signed images to Glance and then boot them via Nova, with Nova validating the image signature when it downloads the image. Adding c

[openstack-dev] [Nova] cross-project bug fixes

2013-12-12 Thread Hamilton, Peter A.
I am in the process of getting a bug fix approved for a bug found in openstack.common: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/60500/ The bug is present in both nova and cinder. The above patch is under nova; do I need to submit a separate cinder patch covering the same fix, or does the shared nature

[openstack-dev] Premature failure during instance spawn

2013-06-26 Thread Hamilton, Peter A.
In Nova, specifically the libvirt driver's spawn process (nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py), I've noticed that an attempt is made to launch an instance even if a failure occurs before the libvirt XML is assembled. In this case, I'm referring to when errors are logged but no corresponding exception is ra