problem importing instackenv.json

[Rafael Urena]

I've installed the undercloud and find i cannot import my instack.json file.

# openstack baremetal import --json /home/stack/instackenv.json
Invalid input [name=tripleo.baremetal.v1.register_or_update, class=DirectWorkflowSpec, unexpected=[u'instance_boot_option']]

I've looked online and cannot find this error anywhere, any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I found that the file /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-common/workbooks/baremetal.yaml was not like the one on github. Not sure if that is the issue. I thought perhaps this was what was being used to import the json file.

[Julie Pichon (jpichon)]

It does look like a more recent version of tripleo-common is needed here, both for that yaml file (updated Mistral workbook) and the updated Mistral action that goes with it.

[Julie Pichon (jpichon)]

I'm not entirely sure what's the preferred/recommended way to fix it in this case, I believe it's due to a mismatch between using the latest client dev version with not quite the latest tripleo-common code. Did you update both/either packages recently?

As a workaround, since I assume this is a development environment, you could clone the tripleo-common repository [1], run the commands at the start of the README [2], and update the workbook with:

$ mistral workbook-update ~/tripleo-common/workbooks/baremetal.yaml

Let me know if this helps. I'll try to find out what's the proper way to get the latest tripleo-common code to be picked up in the meantime.

[1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-common/
[2] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-common/tree/README.rst#n22 lines 22-30

[Julie Pichon (jpichon)]

I just built a new undercloud on a new setup (using the instructions at http://tripleo.org), and the import command ran fine. How did you install/update your undercloud, could you explain your setup? Could you confirm your tripleo-common package is up to date?

After the installation, the workflow was available with the new argument:

$ mistral workflow-get-definition tripleo.baremetal.v1.register_or_update
register_or_update:
[...]
  input:
   - nodes_json
   - remove: False
   - queue_name: tripleo
   - kernel_name: null
   - ramdisk_name: null
   - instance_boot_option: local
[...]

[Rafael Urena (rurena)]

I am not entirely sure what I did differently from last week when i did this and it worked. I was thinking that perhaps an update or something had occurred over the weekend. I was able to deploy Mitaka and introspection was completed successfully. I will try to upgrade to newton and will let you know if i get any errors after that. I followed these instructions:
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/installation/installing.html

[Rafael Urena (rurena)]

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/post_deployment/upgrade.html

will use the above to upgrade

[Julie Pichon (jpichon)]

Thank you for your answer and the additional information. The patch that is giving you trouble merged very recently indeed (tripleo-common [1], tripleoclient [2]), but the client patch merged after the tripleo-common patch. So I'm surprised you have a new client yet seem to be missing the tripleo-common update. If it was an undercloud update, it's possible the workflow and actions need to be updated manually following the notes I left in comment #2. Please let me know how your new install/upgrade goes (note that these patches should only affect the undercloud) - and perhaps which versions you are using, if you hit the same issue again. Thank you.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/348875/
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/339727/

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