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// See http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/cli_config_drive.html type Metadata struct { Uuid             string           `json:"uuid"` <del> Name             string           `json:"name"` </del> <ins> Hostname         string           `json:"hostname"` </ins> AvailabilityZone string           `json:"availability_zone"` Devices          []DeviceMetadata `json:"devices,omitempty"` // .. and other fields we don't care about.  Expand as necessary.

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<!-- This form is for bug reports and feature requests ONLY! If you're looking for help check and the . --Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST?: /kind bug What happened: The OpenStack cloud provider currently uses the name of the kubelet node to register with the API server. However the name is not guaranteed to conform to the DNS-1123 subdomain spec. Given a node name of , the following message appears in the kubelet logs: What you expected to happen: The OpenStack Cloud provider uses the instance id instead of the instance name. This will guarantee that the id conforms the DNS-1123 spec without making any assumptions on what the instance name may be. How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): In the OpenStack console, rename a kubelet node to and attempt to register the kubelet node to the api server. Anything else we need to know?: Environment: OpenStack Newton Kubernetes version (use ):Cloud provider or hardware configuration: OpenStack OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): Ubuntu 14.04.5 Kernel (e.g. ): Linux -cab9-44ff-9c99- 4.4.0-103-generic ~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 4 19:33:04 UTC 2017 x8664 x8664 x86_64 GNU/Linux Install tools: Others:
/sig openstack
/assign I prefer to conform hostname to DNS-1123 subdomain spec. Already submitted a PR on this.
I think the issue may be more than just the hostname. The hostname on my vm is set to Since the OpenStack cloud provider uses the instance name to register with the api server, I also get error messages like the following: It seems like for OpenStack specifically, it sets it's node name to the name returned from the OpenStack metadata server () which is not restricted to being DNS-1123 compliant.
The node name must match ([A-Za-z0-9][-A-Za-z0-9_.]*)?[A-Za-z0-9], not contain '/'.
I can confirm that Openstack can boot up instances with the name like . But this will break kubelet currently as stated above. For such cloud provider based nodes, the nodeName registered is retrieved from the provider, which should not be allowed when registering nodes for kubelet.

Agree. +1. I've an extra check in PR . PTAL. Thanks.
I think the question here is: Why did you choose to use as the nodename? This is the display name of the server, a property made for humans by humans. Essentially it is a field that everybody should be able to fill in whatever they think their server should be called. This doesn't need to be unique and has no guarantees about format or length or character format. We've had a number of people putting in unicode characters in the display name, for example. Furthermore, it can be changed during runtime of the server, without rebooting. Other possibilities for the nodename are: instance UUID, which is a string in a defined format, guaranteed to be unique and is only separated by dashes. Found in If you would like to have some way to associate your nodename with whatever is shown in the Horizon dashboard as server display name, there is . OpenStack already takes care to sanitize any weird display name. E.g. some weird display name like gets a reasonable hostname: <img width="745" alt="screen shot 2018-01-10 at 08 52 49" src="https://user-"What do you think about changing the source for selecting the nodename?
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Once upon a time, the cloud provider's (only!) role was to discover a dynamic list of nodes by regex. In that world, using the nodename made perfect sense because the admin could then configure it to be something like , with the obvious use of regex patterns to group the relevant nodes. Fast forward a few years, and this style of node registration is long gone, and there is no need to make the node name human readable, and in fact numerous reasons to choose other unique identifiers. There is still to removing "human-friendly" node names, however. In the end, I didn't see a good alternative that would please everyone (and meet the required technical character set/length constraints). I stuck with because at least it was under the control of the cluster admin, and so it could be obviously contrived to match our imposed k8s node name == openstack instance name constraint (once that constraint was communicated).