OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)

attach volumes when launch instances

Bug #1571392 reported by Lingfeng Xiong
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OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Sunkara Ramya Sree

Bug Description

It is better to add a UI option allowing attaching volumes when launch a new instance.
Some instances need to mount the attached volume at boot time (usually software start at boot time). Without this feature, it is required to launch a instance, attach volume then reboot it to make the software to use that volume.

Tags: angularjs
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Ankur (ankur-gupta-f) wrote :

Hello. Could you provide some more detail and use cases where this might be important. Thank you

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Lingfeng Xiong (xionglingfeng) wrote :

Hi Ankur,
For example. I installed a git server VM. The operating system is installed on a ephemeral device, but of course the repository must stay in a persistent driver. In this case, I created an volume and attach the volume to the VM.
To make my git server automatically start, I created items in /etc/fstab to mount that persistent driver. Then even my VM reboots, the software can automatically start.

However, for some reason, I need to delete the instance and recreate it from image. In Horizon, I clicked on "Launch instance" button and pick that image, then create a instance. After creation, the instance starts, and I do not have any chance to mount the volume. Then my git server starts without volume mounted, and failed.

There are two ways to solve this problem: 1. allow mounting volumes in instance creation, or 2. allow put instance to "shutdown" status after creation.

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Ankur (ankur-gupta-f) wrote :

Thank you for your quick reply. Will look into it. Hopefully can get more feedback on community on the BKM to implement this.

Ankur (ankur-gupta-f)
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Itxaka Serrano (itxaka) wrote :

Sounds like this should be a BP rather than a bug?

Ankur (ankur-gupta-f)
Changed in horizon:
assignee: Ankur (ankur-gupta-f) → nobody
Matt Borland (palecrow)
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importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: angularjs
Sunkara Ramya Sree (ramyasunkara)
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assignee: nobody → Sunkara Ramya Sree (ramyasunkara)
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