Boot from volume default

[Adrien Cunin]

In the instance launcher, when selecting Image or Image snapshot as boot source, the Create volume option is set to yes by default.

1) Has this default value choice been discussed somewhere?
2) Is there a way to change that default value? It'd be nice :-)

[Mateusz Kowalski (makowals)]

Re 2, you can do it in here -- https://github.com/openstack/horizon/blob/master/openstack_dashboard/dashboards/project/static/dashboard/project/workflow/launch-instance/source/source.controller.js#L422 -- in case you deploy from source code or willing to repackage locally

[Ross Martyn (rossmartyn04)]

(Horizon - Newton (Ubuntu Packages))

Further to this, the 'boot source' menu seems to be inconsistent at times, and often the 'default' or 'main' option can be different. This is apparently due to slow responses from other OpenStack components. Could this be configured in some way?

Further to this, it would be brilliant if these things, i.e default 'boot source' and 'create new volume?' were configurable in local_settings.conf.

[Akihiro Motoki (amotoki)]

There is no answer which is better to enable or disable boot from volume by default. It depends on operators and there is no answer.

It looks better to introduce a config option which controls whether boot from volume should be the default or not.

[Akihiro Motoki (amotoki)]

I set the priority to High because we received similar requests several times.

[Akihiro Motoki (amotoki)]

/Just note/ the default value of vol_create (boot from volume or not) was changed about one year ago in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/304140/

[Christopher Brown (snecklifter)]

In reply to comment #5

Yes, and bugs about the user experience have been around for a while too....

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

Christopher, shouldn't we keep the two bugs separate? Although they are definitely related, they are different. The latest two comments in the other bug seem to agree with that.

[Rob Cresswell (robcresswell-deactivatedaccount)]

Patch here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/425283/

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/425283
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/horizon/commit/?id=d734f482ece979018801f38242933dd627e8cd2d
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit d734f482ece979018801f38242933dd627e8cd2d
Author: Mohammed Naser <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 25 11:53:09 2017 -0500

    Add config for default create volume option

    This patch adds the ability to configure the default "create volume"
    value when launching an instance with Cinder enabled.

    Co-Authored-By: Rob Cresswell <email address hidden>

    Closes-Bug: 1678109
    Change-Id: I272f7f1b20cc1276976c464a82d1776de92d17e7

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/horizon 12.0.0.0b2 development milestone.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/newton
Review: https://review.openstack.org/472815

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/ocata
Review: https://review.openstack.org/472819

[Simon Leinen (simon-leinen)]

Operators and users may experience this as a regression when upgrading to Newton. The patch that has now merged into master would providers a workaround that still allows them to use the new launch-instance workflow. To provide a smooth upgrade path, it would be good to have the patch in Newton and Ocata too. So I cherry-picked this change to the stable/ocata and stable/newton branches. The cherry-picked applied cleanly. One test had to be updated due to a change in the size of a data structure.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Rob Cresswell (<email address hidden>) on branch: stable/newton
Review: https://review.openstack.org/472815

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/472819
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/horizon/commit/?id=6c0ec31de0e07097f338c9259e99dae5d6abf2b7
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: stable/ocata

commit 6c0ec31de0e07097f338c9259e99dae5d6abf2b7
Author: Mohammed Naser <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 25 11:53:09 2017 -0500

    Add config for default create volume option

    This patch adds the ability to configure the default "create volume"
    value when launching an instance with Cinder enabled.

    Co-Authored-By: Rob Cresswell <email address hidden>

    Closes-Bug: 1678109
    Change-Id: I272f7f1b20cc1276976c464a82d1776de92d17e7
    (cherry picked from commit d734f482ece979018801f38242933dd627e8cd2d)

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/horizon 11.0.3 release.