[WHIRR-682] OpenStack Nova throttling prevents Whirr from bringing up clusters with multiple nodes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: core

Environment

whirr.provider=rackspace-cloudservers-uk

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 14/Nov/12 21:48
• Updated: 07/Mar/13 23:06

Description

You can't create a 3 node hadoop cluster on OpenStack Nova, because it rate-limits VM requests (in time and per-day). The endpoints send a 413-coded message, but this is not detected as a retryable action