Ironic in API 1.82 added the option for nodes to be associated with
a specific shard key. This can be used to partition up the nodes within
a single ironic conductor group into smaller sets of nodes that can
each be managed by their own nova-compute ironic service.
We add a new [ironic]shard config option to allow operators to say
which shard each nova-compute process should target.
As such, when the shard is set we ignore the peer_list setting
and always have a hash ring of one.
Also corrects an issue where [ironic]/conductor_group was considered
a mutable configuration; it is not mutable, nor is shards. In any
situation where an operator changes the scope of nodes managed by a
nova compute process, a restart is required.
blueprint ironic-shards
Co-Authored-By: Jay Faulkner <jay@jvf.cc>
Change-Id: Ie0c71f7bc5a62d607ffd3134837299fee952a947
John Garbutt
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