Looking at a debug patch with a tripleo run, the instance that fails the heat stack create with the 404 fails to schedule: http://logs.openstack.org/60/428360/2/experimental/gate-tripleo-ci-centos-7-nonha-multinode/7a6e5bc/logs/subnode-2/var/log/nova/nova-conductor.txt.gz#_2017-02-03_05_17_35_826 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager [req-5e120dea-89b0-4cf7-a7cc-d7893234aea2 - - - - -] Failed to schedule instances 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager Traceback (most recent call last): 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/conductor/manager.py", line 866, in schedule_and_build_instances 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager request_specs[0].to_legacy_filter_properties_dict()) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/conductor/manager.py", line 597, in _schedule_instances 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager hosts = self.scheduler_client.select_destinations(context, spec_obj) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/scheduler/utils.py", line 371, in wrapped 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager return func(*args, **kwargs) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/scheduler/client/__init__.py", line 51, in select_destinations 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager return self.queryclient.select_destinations(context, spec_obj) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/scheduler/client/__init__.py", line 37, in __run_method 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager return getattr(self.instance, __name)(*args, **kwargs) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/scheduler/client/query.py", line 32, in select_destinations 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager return self.scheduler_rpcapi.select_destinations(context, spec_obj) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/scheduler/rpcapi.py", line 129, in select_destinations 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager return cctxt.call(ctxt, 'select_destinations', **msg_args) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_messaging/rpc/client.py", line 169, in call 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager retry=self.retry) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_messaging/transport.py", line 97, in _send 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager timeout=timeout, retry=retry) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_messaging/_drivers/amqpdriver.py", line 458, in send 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager retry=retry) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_messaging/_drivers/amqpdriver.py", line 449, in _send 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager raise result 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager NoValidHost_Remote: No valid host was found. There are not enough hosts available. 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager Traceback (most recent call last): 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_messaging/rpc/server.py", line 218, in inner 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager return func(*args, **kwargs) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/scheduler/manager.py", line 98, in select_destinations 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager dests = self.driver.select_destinations(ctxt, spec_obj) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/scheduler/filter_scheduler.py", line 79, in select_destinations 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager raise exception.NoValidHost(reason=reason) 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager NoValidHost: No valid host was found. There are not enough hosts available. 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager 2017-02-03 05:17:35.826 43546 ERROR nova.conductor.manager That should put it in the cell0 database and the _get_instance() method in the compute API should pull it out of there.