Conditionally expose resources based on available services

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https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/keystone-based-resource-availability

Expose resources as available based on presence of the service.

Problem description

Currently we unconditionally register and present to the user all resource plugins that we have in-tree, even though the actual service might not be installed in a particular cloud (e.g. Neutron resources on Nova-network based cloud or Sahara resources though Sahara is not that usually installed). This is confusing to the user as (s)he sees resources that can not actually be used as available, and facilitates late failure of instantiated template instead of failing at validation.

The situation is only going to get worse as we move the contrib/ resources back in-tree, and we will probably accept in-tree resources for many more projects under the “Big Tent” governance model.

Proposed change

Add an additional validation step in the resource class that checks if the required endpoint is present. Endpoints can be accessed from the request context that is already available in the resource class as stack.context. This method should be called from Resource.__new__ and raise a StackResourceUnavailable exception (new subclass of StackValidationError) when appropriate.

The list_resource_types method should tolerate the StackResourceUnavailable and do not output resources raising this as part of available resources list.

Client plugins must implement a service_type property to be used during validation and also during client instantiation.

Every resource type must implement the default_client_plugin class attribute to be used in the base Resource class to validate the endpoints presence in the context.

Alternatives

Keep the things as they are continuing to confuse users and fail later than earlier for templates with resources for services unavailable in the current deployment.

Implementation

Assignee(s)

Primary assignee:

Kanagaraj Manickam <kanagaraj-manickam>

Assisted by:

Pavlo Shchelokovskyy <pshchelo>

Milestones

Target Milestone for completion:

liberty-1

Work Items

  • changes in the client plugins

  • add default_client_plugin to all resource plugins

  • changes in the base resource class

  • changes in the list_resource_types and show_resource_type service methods

  • unit tests

  • scenario integration tests (based on some “exotic” resource) - check if resource is listed as available - check if template with resource validates

Dependencies

None