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[Lorin Hochstein <lorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Christian Parpart wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> while I am still "somewhat" new to OpenStack, I was able to successfully deploy a 6-node OpenStack setup
> with 4 compute nodes, one controller node (yet to be HA'd) and one network node (yet to be HA'd).
> 
> However, now, that I am that far, I am in need to create a custom filter, due to the companies requirements
> on what VMs to put on what hardware.
> Unfortunately, I am not yet that experienced in Python (know quite a few others, so I shouldn't have 
> it that hard in getting into) and I - of course - don't know the Nova API as well as you do.
> 
> So I am looking for a complete basic Hello World Filter Scheduler example, e.g. in form of a github repo,
> that I can fork off, and improve it, and learn Nova by doing.
> 
> I could not really find anything that helpful yet, and I think it might be a wonderful entry-point for
> quite a few of us.
> 
> Is there anyone willing to help us here out a bit?
> 
> Many many thanks,
> Christian Parpart.
> _______________________________________________

Christian:

The admin docs have a chapter on scheduling that discusses the filter scheduler: http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/admin/content/ch_scheduling.html

It's from a user's point, not a developer, but it does describe what all of the built-in filters do. You should be able to look at the corresponding code and see what they do pretty easily.

Check out the nova/scheduler/filters directory which has the implementation of the existing filters: https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/nova/scheduler/filters

The simplest filter is the AllHostsFilter, which doesn't filter anything at all: https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/scheduler/filters/all_hosts_filter.py


Take care,

Lorin
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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com

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