RFE: option to overwrite allocations for instances

[jayaditya gupta]

Add an option to overwrite allocations for instances which already
have allocations (but the operator thinks might be wrong?);

this would probably only be safe with a specific instance.

This is mentioned as TO-DO in nova/cmd/manage.py Line 2126

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

> nova/cmd/manage.py Line 2126

That doesn't mean much depending on which branch you're looking at. Looking at master today and that doesn't align with any TODO in the code. Use a tag or git hash and link to the actual TODO you're referring to. Also, we don't normally need to track TODOs in the code with bugs (nova already has enough bugs that don't get looked at).

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

Sorry I read the wrong line, so you're referring to this in the heal_allocations command:

# - add an option to overwrite allocations for instances which already
# have allocations (but the operator thinks might be wrong?); this
# would probably only be safe with a specific instance.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/715395
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?id=87936baaac3a1b5227ab779398dc26b4546e1af1
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: master

commit 87936baaac3a1b5227ab779398dc26b4546e1af1
Author: jay <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Apr 6 16:03:17 2020 +0200

    Support for --force flag for nova-manage placement heal_allocations command

    Use this flag to forcefully heal allocation for a specific instance

    Change-Id: I54147d522c86d858f938df509b333b6af3189e52
    Closes-Bug: #1868997