Sébastien Han

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A must-have cron job on your OpenStack Cloud

Running OpenStack on production can be difficult, so every optimizations are good to take :).

Basically, this script flushes expired tokens and moves deleted instance to other tables. You want to run this script only on one of your cloud controllers.

#!/bin/bash

# 1. Purge expired tokens
# 2. Move deleted instances to another table that you MUST not backup,
# unless you have data retention policies.

MAX_ROWS=100

logger -t keystone-cleaner "Starting token cleanup"
/usr/bin/keystone-manage token_flush
logger -t keystone-cleaner "Ending token cleanup"

logger -t deleted-rows-archiver "Starting archiving deleted rows"
/usr/bin/nova-manage db archive_deleted_rows --max_rows $MAX_ROWS
logger -t deleted-rows-archiver "Ending archiving deleted rows"

exit 0

Depending on the amount of deleted instances that you get on a daily basis you’d like to modify the MAX_ROWS variable.


Running these two tasks on a daily basis and ideally prior to running your databases backup is a good start.

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