OpenStack: override DHCP information sent by DNSMASQ to a VM

One of the most annoying thing is when the resolv.conf of your VM keeps changing because of the information sent by the DNSMASQ process. In this article, I assume that your setup has some conventions such as:

  • One network per customer, with fixed_ips range with something like 10.100.$ID.0/24
  • One ID (number) per tenant

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Openstack and rsyslog

I don’t want to see my logs poluted by INFO messages saying “hey, I’m running!”. No thanks, it burns my I/O cycles for nothing. If it doesn’t work I have a monitoring system for that and if it’s broken I simply change the log level to DEBUG. Of course it’s personal thoughts, however for those you who are interested just click ;-).

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