openstack/kolla-ansible.git/doc/source/reference/compute/nova-guide.rst, branch stable/2026.1

Merge "Fix: Update outdated documentation"

2026-04-16T14:54:58+00:00

Fix: Update outdated documentation

2026-04-12T15:31:35+00:00

Change-Id: I5dc53f74afd9a5b565201dc9d3039d82cb65dabc Signed-off-by: Piotr Milewski

Add additional SPICE configuration options

2026-04-02T20:05:13+00:00

Recent changes to OpenStack Compute have added a number of new configuration options for SPICE VDI consoles. Additionally, it is not always desirable to enable the HTML5 transcoding proxy for SPICE consoles in Horizon. This patch adds configuration to globals.yml for most of these new options. Specifically: * nova_spice_html5: whether to enable the HTML5 transcoding proxy or not. Defaults to the previous behaviour of enabling the proxy. Notably, nova_spice_require_secure is not exposed here as it implies that qemu is configured to support TLS, and that TLS certificates have been configured in the nova_libvirt container. These changes are large, and are included in a separate patch for clarity. Additionally, OpenStack Compute added these configuration options in 2023.1, and they are exposed as well: * nova_spice_image_compression: "auto_glz" * nova_spice_jpeg_compression: "auto" * nova_spice_zlib_compression: "auto" * nova_spice_playback_compression: true * nova_spice_streaming_mode: "filter" All configuration options and their various values are documented by OpenStack Compute in their documentation. Partial-Bug: #2131793 (spice-direct consoles) Change-Id: I07f6890f1c7c4e543667d3cbd7b3e82bd9ec83e3 Signed-off-by: Michael Still

Add support for libvirt swtpm (vTPM) configuration.

2025-12-15T09:27:24+00:00

Since both nova-compute and nova-libvirt Kolla images have swtpm packages installed [1], it is possible to configure vTPM for libvirt instances. This patch adds support for such configuration in kolla-ansible. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla/+bug/2062572 Closes-Bug: #2106219 Change-Id: Ic7969b05bde258c38ee31fe2821aeb4e9c77a567 Signed-off-by: fprzewozn

Drop VMware support

2025-08-07T14:42:57+00:00

Change-Id: I20a669bf7796285df04723a9110f9c74788600e1 Signed-off-by: Michal Nasiadka

Support specifying Nova compute provider config

2022-10-07T12:58:38+00:00

In the Victoria cycle, Nova merged improved support for managing resource providers: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:bp%252Fprovider-config-file See the blueprint for more details: https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/admin/managing-resource-providers.html This change allows us to copy the necessary configuration. Change-Id: I0a3caaad73bc6fe27380e7f6bf6b792aca51c84c

nova: improve compute service registration failure handling

2022-03-29T10:26:44+00:00

If any nova compute service fails to register itself, Kolla Ansible will fail the host that queries the Nova API. This is the first compute host in the inventory, and fails in the task: Waiting for nova-compute services to register themselves Other hosts continue, often leading to further errors later on. Clearly this is not idea. This change modifies the behaviour to query the compute service list until all expected hosts are present, but does not fail the querying host if they are not. A new task is added that executes for all hosts, and fails only those hosts that have not registered successfully. Alternatively, to fail all hosts in a cell when any compute service fails to register, set nova_compute_registration_fatal to true. Change-Id: I12c1928cf1f1fb9e28f1741e7fe4968004ea1816 Closes-Bug: #1940119

Support copying static Vendordata file into Nova API container

2021-11-25T17:24:05+00:00

Nova provides a mechanism to set static vendordata via a file [1]. This patch provides support in Kolla Ansible for using this feature. Arguably this could be part of a generic mechansim for copying arbitrary config, but: - It's not clear if there is anything else that would take advantage of this - One size might not fit all [1] https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html#api.vendordata_jsonfile_path Change-Id: Id420376d96d0c40415c369ae8dd36e845a781820

Revert VMware deprecation

2020-10-14T16:12:02+00:00

Nova has reversed their deprecation of the VMware driver, and the Kolla community has shown an interest in it. Change-Id: I82f1074da56ed16c08317d1f92ed7f0a6f4a149a

Drop RDP console variables

2020-07-27T13:38:56+00:00

These are noop after Hyper-V support was removed. Change-Id: Ib451b154893e5cedc366aed83c35f48d92c7ab82