Booting an Image in OpenStack Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora - havana

[Sheldon Hearn]

Booting the image doesn't work for the "Basic architecture" sample architecture (controller node and compute node), because the cirros instance can't reach the metadata service, which is running on the controller node.

I appreciate that openstack-nova-network creates a DNAT rule for the metadata service on the compute node, but that doesn't work, at least on CentOS 6.4.

The workaround that worked for me was to enable the metadata API on the compute node:

service openstack-nova-metadata-api start
chkconfig openstack-nova-metadata-api on
reboot

If the docs were updated to include this before starting the openstack-nova-network service, the reboot would not be required.

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URL: http://docs.openstack.org/havana/install-guide/install/yum/content/nova-boot.html
source File: file:/home/jenkins/workspace/openstack-install-deploy-guide-fedora/doc/install-guide/section_nova-boot.xml
xml:id: nova-boot

[Sheldon Hearn (sheldonh)]

I've been working up a doc patch for this, but am hindered by lack of knowledge as to

* whether this affects anything other than CentOS, and
* whether my work-around is acceptable.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/53317

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/53317
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/ebb4f920300c2d9b71bf86396a8703a1d96270d6
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit ebb4f920300c2d9b71bf86396a8703a1d96270d6
Author: Sheldon Hearn <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 23 13:10:51 2013 +0200

    Install Guide: unreachable metadata service

    Recommend installing a local metadata service on compute nodes on
    RHEL, CentOS and Fedora.

    Change-Id: I64b65908a72c7b586dbcba133e95096779ee6043
    backport: havana
    Partial-Bug: 1243157

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/havana
Review: https://review.openstack.org/53949

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/53949
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/405b6a3d8f71955256ba97a03fce1d2a4b30af70
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: stable/havana

commit 405b6a3d8f71955256ba97a03fce1d2a4b30af70
Author: Sheldon Hearn <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 23 13:10:51 2013 +0200

    Install Guide: unreachable metadata service

    Recommend installing a local metadata service on compute nodes on
    RHEL, CentOS and Fedora.

    backport: havana
    Partial-Bug: 1243157
    (cherry picked from commit ebb4f920300c2d9b71bf86396a8703a1d96270d6)

    Change-Id: Ia836f9dffedcf2afb37e57b5f0f874b0dc23ea13