All auto-allocated VMs go to the first pod

[Jason Hobbs]

We have 3 pods setup in our MAAS. When an allocate request comes in with constraints that don't match any existing machines, MAAS allocates a new VM from a pod. It always picks the first pod, which causes its resources to be exhausted quickly while the other pods still have free resources. Here's the output from 'pods read':

http://paste.ubuntu.com/25172845/

You can see that pod 2 has available resources, while pod 1 has negative resources.

This is with 2.2.2 (6094-g78d97d0-0ubuntu1~16.04.1)

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

MAAS does not have a scheduling algorithm to balance resource allocation between pods. However, you can select which pod you want your resources created. The issue here is that it keeps allocating when resources are not available.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1706458