On overcloud nodes deployed by instack, there are no credentials that you can use to log into the local console. This makes troubleshooting failed nodes in the face of network connectivity failures (where you cannot SSH in to node as heat-admin) needlessly difficult to troubleshoot. Having a user that can only log in to the local console and that can sudo to root would facilitate troubleshooting.
Any update on it, how we can access the console of overcloud nodes in order to debug things.
Mike, can you please post a lead to the docs for this?
The resulting content will be an article on modifying the image with virt-customize tools. mozari has provided me with the necessary info.
Article posted here: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1556833 Victor and Salman, Does this suit your needs? Any additional information required?
The included info should cover everything, so removing the need_info. If there is additional info that would be helpful please feel free to reach out and ask.
Assigning Radek as the QA contact. Radek - could you take a look at the changes for this bug?
A couple of things that are worth fixing: "such installing additional components" -> "such as installing additional components" "Install the libguestfs-tools from" -> "Install the libguestfs-tools package from" "the contents of the overcloud-full.qcow2." -> "the contents of the overcloud-full.qcow2 image." The boot options for virt-manager aren't rendered as a list; instead, (literal) * signs are displayed. AFAICT, you need an empty line above the list, too. In "After installing the necessary packages to customize the image, we now remove our subscriptions", "we/our" is used although the rest of the document speaks directly to the reader. Please consider s/we now// ; s/our/your/. Other than that, the article looks good to me!
Fixes from comment#10 implemented. adahms, are we good to close this BZ?
Hi Dan, Looks good to me - we should be alright to close this one now. Thank you for implementing the feedback, and to Radek for the detailed comments! Kind regards, Andrew