Allow user to ignore AZs that are not available to them about bosh-bootstrap

[drnic]

Do you get this if you run it again?

I think this issue can only be "fixed" within BOSH itself. Could you also please create a Jira ticket? https://cloudfoundry.atlassian.net/browse/CF

[BrianMMcClain]

Re-ran it and still got it. Also ran bosh micro deploy from the inception VM and got the issue. Looks like this is the offending code:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh/blob/master/aws_cpi/lib/cloud/aws/cloud.rb#L759

From aws-sdk-ruby...

# @option options [String] :availability_zone Specifies the
#   availability zone where the instance should run.  Without
#   this option, EC2 will choose an availability zone for you.

I'm re-running this after commenting out: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh/blob/master/aws_cpi/lib/cloud/aws/cloud.rb#L114-L116

I've also filed an issue in JIRA: https://cloudfoundry.atlassian.net/browse/CF-232

[drnic]

Brian, for the moment, want to try us-west-2 (same prices as us-east-1).

[BrianMMcClain]

I'll give that a run as well (even if this succeeds)

[BrianMMcClain]

By the way, didn't have a chance to run it in us-west-2, but I did completed the setup in us-east-1 after removing the code that specified the AZ. This is most certainly an issue that should be solved in BOSH's AWS CPI, I've posted my thoughts on the topic in the JIRA ticket I linked previously.

[drnic]

Closing for now as a bootstrap issue.

[drnic]

Theoretically fog should be able to show which AZs are available:

azInfo = connection.describe_availability_zones.body["availabilityZoneInfo"]
azInfo.select {|az| az["zoneState"] == "available"}
azInfo.select {|az| az["zoneState"] == "available"}.map {|az| az["zoneName"]}

Though it shows all available for @BrianMMcClain when he runs it

[drnic]

May need to support a list of AZs to ignore; and actually randomly pick an az for the inception VM and core/0 VM and other VMs if BOSH isn't going to help with VM assignment.

[drnic]

This is still to be implemented in v0.11+

[drnic]

Explicit AZ can be specified via provider.az in settings.yml; shipped in v0.11.2.

See https://github.com/StarkAndWayne/bosh-bootstrap#restrict-aws-availability-zones