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[Andrew Bogott <abogott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rogerio --

> I'm developing a application to work along with openstack. My 
> application needs to keep track of all instances being started or 
> terminated such as feeding it information about the location, status 
> and other information about launched and terminated instances.

Nova already includes a notification framework which works well for this 
sort of thing.

If you want your code to run on a different host or even a separate 
process, you should enable queue-based notifications on nova commandline 
with something like

--notification_driver = nova.notifier.rabbit_notifier

Then you can set up your code as a queue consumer to receive these messages.

That's not the approach that I'm using currently, though.  What I did is 
easier but somewhat more intrusive:  I wrote a custom notification 
driver that checks for interesting messages and does my work inline.

--notification_driver = nova.notifier.list_notifier
--list_notifier_drivers = nova.sharedfs.sharedfs_notifier.SharedFSNotifier

That results in SharedFSNotifier's notify(message) function getting 
called for each notification, where it vets the messages and responds as 
needed:

        event_type = message.get('event_type')
        if event_type not in ['compute.instance.delete.start',
                              'compute.instance.create.end']:
        etc.

You can see the complete class in this patch:  
https://review.openstack.org/#change,5292 .  Look for the file 
'sharedfs_notifier.py'.

Hope that helps!

-Andrew