OpenStack Juno Static IP Patch

There is a bug in OpenStack Juno that prevents BOSH from assigning static IPs. This can be quite an issue when trying to install Cloud Foundry on OpenStack.

This topic explains a very simple fix.

Log on to the controller node

From the Mirantis Fuel Dashboard, navigate to Nodes > Controller and click on the gear icon. The FQDN will list the server you will need to log on to. For this example, ssh into the node-100.prod.myorg.com server:

ssh node-100

Then assign all the environment variables:

source openrc

To find the list of compute nodes, run the following:

nova service-list

The table below shows an example output. (Some columns were removed for easier reading.)

+----+------------------+-------------------------+---------+
| Id | Binary           | Host                    | Status  |
+----+------------------+-------------------------+---------+
| 1  | nova-consoleauth | node-100.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
| 2  | nova-scheduler   | node-100.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
| 3  | nova-conductor   | node-100.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
| 4  | nova-cert        | node-100.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
| 5  | nova-compute     | node-105.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
| 6  | nova-compute     | node-106.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
| 7  | nova-compute     | node-107.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
| 8  | nova-compute     | node-108.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
| 9  | nova-compute     | node-109.prod.myorg.com | enabled |
+----+------------------+-------------------------+---------+

Fix the first compute node

Referring to the output table above, ssh into the first compute node, node-105:

ssh node-105

Once on this server, open the api.py file:

vi /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/network/neutronv2/api.py

Replace the following line:

port_req_body['port']['fixed_ips'] = [{'ip_address': fixed_ip}]

...with:

port_req_body['port']['fixed_ips'] = [{'ip_address': str(fixed_ip)}]

Save the file and restart nova-compute:

service openstack-nova-compute restart

Fix the remaining compute nodes

You can repeat the previous section for the remaining compute nodes (node-106, node-107, node-108, and node-109), or leverage the first server fixed, copy the api.py file, and restart nova-compute.

To leverage the first compute server's patch, get the list of remaining compute servers you need to patch. When you ran nova service-list on the controller node, there were five compute nodes listed, starting with node-105 and ending with node-109. You've already done node-105 so you still need to patch node-106 through node-109.

for i in {106..109}
do
   scp node-106:/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/network/neutronv2/api.py node-$i:/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/network/neutronv2/api.py
   ssh node-$i service openstack-nova-compute restart
done

Now you can deploy Cloud Foundry and use static IPs.