When creating a nova flavor with heat, a unique string is appended to the flavor name.
Issue
[stack@undercloud-3 ~]$ heat stack-create -f nova-flavor.yaml flavor
+--------------------------------------+------------+--------------------+---------------------+--------------+
| id | stack_name | stack_status | creation_time | updated_time |
+--------------------------------------+------------+--------------------+---------------------+--------------+
| 29dbd184-5df3-4793-b571-cb204dde265f | flavor | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | 2016-10-03T20:40:26 | None |
+--------------------------------------+------------+--------------------+---------------------+--------------+
[stack@undercloud-3 ~]$ heat stack-list
+--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+---------------------+--------------+
| id | stack_name | stack_status | creation_time | updated_time |
+--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+---------------------+--------------+
| 29dbd184-5df3-4793-b571-cb204dde265f | flavor | CREATE_COMPLETE | 2016-10-03T20:40:26 | None |
+--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+---------------------+--------------+
[stack@undercloud-3 ~]$ nova flavor-list
+--------------------------------------+-------------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| ID | Name | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public |
+--------------------------------------+-------------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| 1 | m1.tiny | 512 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True |
| 2 | m1.small | 2048 | 20 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True |
| 3 | m1.medium | 4096 | 40 | 0 | | 2 | 1.0 | True |
| 4 | m1.large | 8192 | 80 | 0 | | 4 | 1.0 | True |
| 5 | m1.xlarge | 16384 | 160 | 0 | | 8 | 1.0 | True |
| 8e29f479-ab32-4565-b6d6-eede6e7261f4 | flavor-my_flavor-su3hro7yikbf | 1024 | 0 | 0 | | 4 | 1.0 | False |
+--------------------------------------+-------------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
[stack@undercloud-3 ~]$ cat nova-flavor.yaml
heat_template_version: 2015-04-30
description: Simple template to deploy a single compute instance
resources:
my_flavor:
type: OS::Nova::Flavor
properties:
ram: 1024
vcpus: 4
Environment
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform
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