[JCLOUDS-1393] Error creating servers in Rackspace

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: jclouds-compute
• Labels: rackspace-cloudnetworks-uk rackspace-cloudnetworks-us rackspace-cloudservers-uk rackspace-cloudservers-us
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ignasi Barrera
• Created: 08/Mar/18 13:36
• Updated: 08/Mar/18 14:20

Description

Deploying servers in Rackspace fails because jclouds attempts to use the Nova legacy API to create the related security groups, and the API is no longer available:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Security groups are required, but the extension is not available in region IAD!
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:145) ~[guava-18.0.jar:na]
at org.jclouds.openstack.nova.v2_0.compute.functions.CreateSecurityGroupIfNeeded.apply(CreateSecurityGroupIfNeeded.java:101) ~[openstack-nova-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0]
at org.jclouds.openstack.nova.v2_0.compute.functions.CreateSecurityGroupIfNeeded.apply(CreateSecurityGroupIfNeeded.java:57) ~[openstack-nova-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0]
at org.jclouds.openstack.nova.v2_0.compute.loaders.FindSecurityGroupOrCreate.createNewSecurityGroup(FindSecurityGroupOrCreate.java:52) ~[openstack-nova-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0]
at org.jclouds.openstack.nova.v2_0.compute.loaders.FindSecurityGroupOrCreate.load(FindSecurityGroupOrCreate.java:43) ~[openstack-nova-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0]
at org.jclouds.openstack.nova.v2_0.compute.loaders.FindSecurityGroupOrCreate.load(FindSecurityGroupOrCreate.java:31) ~[openstack-nova-2.1.0.jar:2.1.0]
at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$LoadingValueReference.loadFuture(LocalCache.java:3527) ~[guava-18.0.jar:na]
at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.loadSync(LocalCache.java:2319) ~[guava-18.0.jar:na]
at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.lockedGetOrLoad(LocalCache.java:2282) ~[guava-18.0.jar:na]
at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.get(LocalCache.java:2197) ~[guava-18.0.jar:na]
... 35 common frames omitted

There is a workaround to configure it to internally use the Neutron API (see this blog post for details). It can be applied as follows when creating the Rackspace context:

Context neutronContext = ContextBuilder.newBuilder("rackspace-cloudnetworks-us")
   .credentials("username", "api-key")
   .overrides(<your custom properties>)
   .modules(<your cusrom modules>)
   .build();

Module neutronLink = ContextLinking.linkContext("openstack-neutron",
   Suppliers.ofInstance(neutronContext));

ComputeServiceContext rackspace = ContextBuilder.newBuilder("rackspace-cloudservers-us")
   .credentials("username", "api-key")
   .overrides(<your custom properties>)
   .modules(ImmutableSet.of(neutronLink, <your cusrom modules>))
   .buidView(ComputeServiceContext.class);

However, since the cloudservers and cloudnetworks providers will always have the same configuration, jclouds should configure it by default, transparently, when creating a cloudservers context.