puppetlabs/puppetlabs-cloud-provisioner — pull request #74 by bodepd (2012-02-08 00:55:28+00:00)
Title: (#12499) Watch for error states during instance creation

Previously, when creating a machine instance, the create action
would loop waiting for one of the following events:
- timeout
- Fog Exception
- created instance enters the state of 'running'

This does not correctly account for the fact that it is possible
for an openstack created machine instance to enter a state of 'error'

I frequently see error states when creating instance with the openstack
ec2 compatibility APIs. It usually occurs when there is either not
sufficient disk or memory to fullfill a request.

According to the ec2 docs, it appears that error is not a valid ec2 state:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/ApiReference-ItemType-InstanceStateType.html?r=1124