Docs/Reno: Conditional nova UID/GID

Adding documentation and a release note for the conditional
nova UID/GID work done in the IRR role in:

  https://review.openstack.org/#/c/290110/

Closes-Bug: 1544889
Depends-On: I881555a896455ce3c897d56a143a8a25c088880b
Change-Id: I98a904beb99d9b0bebd35d49c275a2e2f4c59279
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Major Hayden 2016-03-08 15:40:02 -06:00
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@ -105,6 +105,28 @@ multipath support in nova through a configuration override:
libvirt:
iscsi_use_multipath: true
Shared storage and synchronized UID/GID
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Deployers can specify a custom UID for the nova user and GID for the nova group
to ensure they are identical on each host. This is helpful when using shared
storage on compute nodes because it allows instances to migrate without
filesystem ownership failures.
By default, Ansible will create the nova user and group without specifying the
UID or GID. To specify custom values for the UID/GID, set the following
Ansible variables:
.. code-block:: yaml
nova_system_user_uid = <specify a UID>
nova_system_group_gid = <specify a GID>
**WARNING:** Setting this value **after** deploying an environment with
OpenStack-Ansible can cause failures, errors, and general instability. These
values should only be set once **before** deploying an OpenStack environment
and then never changed.
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.. include:: navigation.txt

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features:
- Deployers can optionally set a UID and/or GID for the nova user and group.
This is helpful for environments with shared storage.