OpenStack Compute (nova)

availability-zone should be available in openstack metadata

Bug #1039579 reported by Scott Moser on 2012-08-21

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	OpenStack Compute (nova)	Fix Released	Undecided	Scott Moser	OpenStack Compute (nova) 2012.2 "folsom"

Bug Description

I'd like to add 'availability-zone' to the openstack metadata service.

That piece of information, is configurable for each nova host (FLAGS.node_availability_zone). It gives some info about the "cloud" that is being run on is extremely useful for a generic guest. In EC2 Ubuntu selects mirrors based on it.

It doesn't seem completely obvious to do this because availability-zone is obtained via "ec2utils.get_availability_zone_by_host(services, instance['host'])".

Other than that, it seems like information that should be in metadata.

OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) on 2012-08-21

Changed in nova:
assignee:	nobody → Scott Moser (smoser)
status:	New → In Progress

Revision history for this message

OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote on 2012-08-23: Fix merged to nova (master)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/11715
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/30e6879d8139e13fc70b0d1c8ef13d7ee03ca5c3
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 30e6879d8139e13fc70b0d1c8ef13d7ee03ca5c3
Author: Scott Moser <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Aug 21 11:16:02 2012 -0400

add availability_zone to openstack metadata

This adds the key 'availability_zone' to the metadata for openstack.

    'availability-zone' in EC2 is very useful to the instance to figure out
    where it is. For example, Ubuntu uses this information to determine
    mirror location on EC2.

Fixes bug 1039579.

Change-Id: I212d3854b75e08a67138b5cd0bea178c47840e11