OpenStack AI Prompts
148 free, production-ready OpenStack AI prompts — copy-paste ready for ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Every prompt ships with fill-in placeholders, a worked example, and production-safety notes, so you get a usable answer on the first try.
- OpenStack Advanced
Nova Live Migration Troubleshooting Prompt
Diagnose Nova live migration failures — shared storage requirements, block migration, network bandwidth, CPU compatibility, error 'migration aborted'.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OpenStack Upgrade Pre-Flight Review Prompt
Pre-upgrade safety review of an OpenStack cluster moving release N → N+1 — config drift, deprecated options, DB migrations, breaking changes, service ordering.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron Networking Debug Prompt
Diagnose Neutron networking failures — unreachable VMs, broken security groups, missing floating IPs, OVS/OVN flow issues — from CLI output and agent logs.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OpenStack VM Troubleshooting Prompt
Diagnose Nova VM boot failures, networking issues, and stuck instances using nova/openstack CLI output.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder Backend Capacity Rebalance Runbook Prompt
Plan a controlled rebalance of Cinder volumes across storage backends when one backend is near-full and another is idle — using volume migration and retype — without stalling tenant I/O or letting the scheduler keep filling the hot backend.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Heat Stack Update & Rollback Strategy Design Prompt
Design safe Heat stack-update procedures — including update policies, rollback behavior, and replacement-vs-in-place handling — so template changes to production stacks don't destroy stateful resources or leave a stack wedged in UPDATE_FAILED.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Kolla-Ansible passwords.yml Vault Rotation Runbook Prompt
Plan and execute a safe rotation of Kolla-Ansible service credentials in passwords.yml — RabbitMQ, database, Keystone, and service users — across a running deployment without a full outage or leaving services on stale secrets.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron OVN Metadata Agent HA & Scaling Design Prompt
Design a highly available, horizontally scaled ovn-metadata-agent layer so instance cloud-init metadata requests never fail or hang, across a large OVN deployment with many chassis and high instance churn.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Conductor & RPC Worker Scaling Tuning Prompt
Right-size nova-conductor, scheduler, and API workers plus oslo.messaging RPC pools so the control plane stops timing out under fleet growth — without over-provisioning RabbitMQ connections or starving the database pool.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova CPU Model & Live-Migration Compatibility Design Prompt
Design a Nova cpu_mode/cpu_models strategy across a mixed-generation compute fleet so live migration works between hosts, guests get the CPU features they need, and you avoid the trap of host-passthrough locking VMs to a single host generation.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Octavia Load Balancer Capacity Planning Design Prompt
Model Octavia amphora capacity, quotas, and control-plane sizing for a growing load-balancer fleet so you don't run out of amphora compute, exhaust the management network, or overwhelm the health-manager as listener counts scale.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
RabbitMQ Quorum Queues Migration Design Prompt
Plan a migration of an OpenStack RabbitMQ cluster from classic mirrored queues to quorum queues so the message bus survives partitions and node loss predictably — sequencing the oslo.messaging config changes without dropping RPC or notification traffic mid-cutover.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Swift Object Expiration & Versioning Design Prompt
Design a Swift object lifecycle strategy combining object versioning and the object-expirer so tenants get recoverable overwrites and automatic deletion, without the expirer queue backing up or versioning silently doubling storage cost.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Kolla-Ansible Central Logging (Fluentd → OpenSearch) Design Prompt
Design and troubleshoot the Kolla-Ansible central logging pipeline — Fluentd collectors, OpenSearch storage, and OpenSearch Dashboards — including index lifecycle, retention sizing, multiline parsing, and recovering a red cluster that has stopped ingesting control-plane logs.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Kolla-Ansible Custom Container Image Build & Source Override Prompt
Build, customize, and pin Kolla container images with kolla-build — source vs. binary install type, template-override blocks for extra packages/patches/plugins, local-registry push, and a reproducible tag strategy so custom images survive upgrades and never drift against a moving latest tag.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Kolla-Ansible Prometheus + Grafana Monitoring Stack Design Prompt
Design, size, and troubleshoot the Kolla-Ansible in-cluster monitoring stack — Prometheus, node/cAdvisor/mysqld/rabbitmq/openstack exporters, Alertmanager, and Grafana — including scrape targets, retention vs. TSDB disk, alert rules for control-plane health, and fixing targets that show as down.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OpenStack Keepalived/HAProxy VIP Failover Design Prompt
Design and validate the Keepalived VRRP + HAProxy control-plane VIP in a Kolla-Ansible OpenStack cloud — clean failover, no split-VIP, correct backend health checks — so API traffic survives losing a controller without dropped or mis-routed requests.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OpenStack etcd / Tooz Coordination Cluster Recovery Prompt
Diagnose and recover the etcd coordination backend that Kolla-Ansible OpenStack uses for Tooz distributed locks — quorum loss, member flapping, and services stuck on lock acquisition — without corrupting the keyspace.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
OpenStack Skyline Dashboard Gateway Deployment Design Prompt
Design a production Skyline (skyline-apiserver + skyline-console) deployment in Kolla-Ansible — Keystone integration, VIP/TLS through HAProxy, WebSocket console proxying, and a safe cutover path from Horizon — without breaking SSO or noVNC.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder Volume Stuck-State Recovery Prompt
Safely diagnose Cinder volumes stuck in transitional states (creating, attaching, detaching, error_deleting, in-use after VM deletion) by correlating cinder-volume logs, backend driver state, and Nova attachment records before any reset-state.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Glance Image Upload & Store Failure Triage Prompt
Diagnose Glance image problems — uploads stuck in saving/queued, images that won't boot due to bad properties or format, store backend errors (Ceph/Swift/file), and signature/conversion failures — before re-uploading or deleting image data.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Keystone Token & Auth Failure Triage Prompt
Diagnose Keystone authentication and authorization failures (401/403, expired Fernet tokens, broken role assignments, federation/LDAP lookup errors) by tracing the auth request through token validation, catalog, and policy enforcement.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron Port Binding Failed Debug Prompt
Diagnose Neutron ports stuck in BINDING_FAILED or DOWN by tracing the ML2 mechanism driver negotiation, the L2 agent state on the compute host, and the segment/physnet mapping that the vif_type resolution depends on.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova-compute Host Health Recovery Prompt
Triage an unhealthy nova-compute host reporting as down in the service list — distinguishing a dead nova-compute service, a hung libvirt/qemu, an AMQP heartbeat problem, or a wedged hypervisor — and recover it without endangering running instances.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Live Migration Failure Debug Prompt
Debug failed or stuck Nova live migrations — pre-check rejections, instances stuck in MIGRATING, libvirt 'migration job' errors, and post-migration cleanup left on the source host — across shared and block (non-shared) storage scenarios.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova NoValidHost Scheduler Triage Prompt
Diagnose why nova-scheduler returns NoValidHost for a boot/migrate request by walking the filter chain, Placement allocation candidates, and host aggregate metadata to find which constraint eliminated every compute host.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Oslo.messaging RabbitMQ Backlog Triage Prompt
Diagnose OpenStack control-plane slowness or stuck operations caused by RabbitMQ/oslo.messaging issues: ballooning reply/notification queues, partitioned clusters, stale agent consumers, and RPC timeouts across Nova/Neutron/Cinder.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Placement Inventory & Allocation Reconcile Prompt
Audit and reconcile the OpenStack Placement service for resource-provider inventory drift, leaked/orphaned allocations, and incorrect allocation ratios that cause phantom 'full' hypervisors or scheduling failures.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder NetApp & NFS Driver Mount/Export Debug Prompt
Diagnose Cinder NFS/NetApp backend failures where volumes won't attach because of stale exports, mount option drift, or export-policy mismatches.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Glance Cinder-Store & Image-Volume Cache Tuning Prompt
Tune the Glance cinder store and Cinder's image-volume cache so booting from image skips redundant downloads and uses backend-side cloning.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Heat Nested Stack & ResourceGroup Index Design Prompt
Design maintainable Heat templates using nested stacks, ResourceGroup, conditions, and index_var so scaling and rolling updates don't replace the wrong resources.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Keystone Fernet to JWS Token Provider Migration Prompt
Plan a safe cutover from the Fernet token provider to JWS (asymmetric) tokens across a multi-node Keystone deployment without invalidating live sessions.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Magnum Cluster Autoscaler & Node Group Rolling Upgrade Prompt
Design a safe node-group rolling upgrade and cluster-autoscaler config for Magnum Kubernetes clusters so node replacements drain pods without dropping workloads.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron OVN BGP EVPN L3 Gateway Design Prompt
Design and validate an OVN-BGP-Agent EVPN/VRF deployment so tenant networks are advertised into a fabric without overlapping VLAN sprawl.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova SR-IOV & PCI Passthrough Whitelist Debug Prompt
Diagnose why SR-IOV VFs or passthrough PCI devices fail to attach, get the wrong NUMA affinity, or never show up in Placement inventory.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova vTPM & Emulated Secure Boot Flavor Design Prompt
Design Nova flavors and image properties for vTPM and UEFI Secure Boot so confidential/Windows workloads boot with measured boot and a persistent TPM, validated before fleet use.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Swift Proxy Memcache & Rate-Limit Tuning Prompt
Tune the Swift proxy-server pipeline (memcache, ratelimit, container/account caching) to stop 503 storms and cache stampedes under load.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Aodh Alarm Evaluation Debug Prompt
Diagnose Aodh alarms that never transition state, fire false positives, or fail to trigger their action URL for auto-scaling and alerting.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Blazar Host Reservation and Lease Design Prompt
Design Blazar resource reservation — dedicated host leases, instance reservations, and capacity carve-outs without starving general scheduling.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
CloudKitty Rating and Chargeback Pipeline Design Prompt
Design a CloudKitty rating pipeline — collector sources, hashmap/pyscript rules, and per-tenant chargeback reports that reconcile with usage.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cyborg Accelerator Device Debug Prompt
Diagnose Cyborg GPU/FPGA accelerator attach failures, missing device profiles, and placement resource-provider mismatches for instances.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Mistral Workflow Execution Debug Prompt
Diagnose Mistral workflow executions stuck in RUNNING, tasks erroring on YAQL/Jinja, and action failures against OpenStack services.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Senlin Cluster Scaling Policy Debug Prompt
Troubleshoot Senlin auto-scaling clusters where scaling policies fail to fire, nodes get stuck in ERROR, or health policy recovery loops.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Tacker VNF Lifecycle Debug Prompt
Troubleshoot Tacker NFV orchestration — VNF instantiate/heal/scale failures, VIM connectivity, and TOSCA/VNFD template errors.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Trove Database Replication and Failover Debug Prompt
Diagnose Trove DBaaS replication lag, broken replica chains, and failed promote/failover operations on MySQL/PostgreSQL instances.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Zun Container Lifecycle Debug Prompt
Troubleshoot Zun containers stuck in Creating/Error, networking failures via Kuryr, and capsule scheduling problems on compute hosts.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Cinder Scheduler Weigher & Capacity Filter Tuning Prompt
Tune the Cinder scheduler filters and weighers so volumes land on the right backend pool — balancing capacity, allocation ratio, and affinity — instead of clustering on one backend or hitting 'no valid backend'.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Designate Zone Transfer & Secondary Zone Debug Prompt
Diagnose why Designate secondary zones won't transfer (AXFR/IXFR), NOTIFY isn't received, or zone serials drift from an external master, while keeping the backend nameservers in sync.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Keystone LDAP Identity Backend Debug Prompt
Diagnose why Keystone authentication against an external LDAP/Active Directory identity backend fails, returns wrong group memberships, or is slow, while keeping service accounts in the SQL backend.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Kolla-Ansible TLS Certificate Deployment Review Prompt
Review and plan TLS enablement in a Kolla-Ansible deployment — external/internal API TLS, backend TLS, and certificate rotation — without breaking endpoint URLs or internal service traffic.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron OVN Southbound DB Bloat & Compaction Debug Prompt
Diagnose a bloated or slow OVN Southbound/Northbound database in a Neutron OVN deployment — runaway size, slow ovsdb-server, chassis churn — and compact it safely without disrupting the dataplane.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Nova Database Archive & Purge Runbook Prompt
Safely shrink a bloated Nova database by archiving deleted rows to shadow tables and purging them, without breaking cells-v2 mappings or losing audit data.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova vGPU Mediated Device Flavor Design Prompt
Design Nova compute configuration and flavors for vGPU workloads using mediated (mdev) devices, mapping mdev types to Placement resource providers without stranding GPU capacity.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Swift Large Object SLO/DLO Strategy Design Prompt
Design a Swift large-object strategy choosing between Static Large Objects (SLO) and Dynamic Large Objects (DLO), segment sizing, and manifest handling for multi-gigabyte uploads.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder Orphaned Attachment Cleanup Prompt
Find and safely clean up orphaned or duplicate Cinder volume attachments left behind by failed deletes, evacuations, or migrations, where attachment records no longer map to live instances.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Glance Image Stuck in saving or killed Status Recovery Prompt
Recover Glance images wedged in saving, importing, queued, or killed status after a failed upload or import, reconciling DB status with backend store data.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Keystone Token Validation Latency Debug Prompt
Diagnose slow API calls cloud-wide caused by Keystone token validation latency, covering Fernet overhead, catalog size, caching misses, and auth_token middleware behavior.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron OVN northd Sync Lag Debug Prompt
Diagnose why logical resources in the OVN Northbound DB are not propagating to the Southbound DB or chassis, causing ports that never go ACTIVE or traffic that never programs.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Block Device Mapping and Volume Attach Stuck Recovery Prompt
Recover instances stuck attaching or detaching a Cinder volume, where Nova's block_device_mapping, the Cinder attachment, and the hypervisor's view of the disk have diverged.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Resize Stuck in VERIFY_RESIZE Recovery Prompt
Recover instances stuck in VERIFY_RESIZE, RESIZE_MIGRATING, or RESIZE_PREP after a failed or abandoned resize/cold-migration, restoring clean ACTIVE or original state.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OpenStack AMQP TLS Certificate Rotation Runbook Prompt
Plan and execute rotation of RabbitMQ AMQP TLS certificates across all OpenStack services without dropping RPC connectivity or stranding controllers, computes, and agents.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Placement Allocation-Ratio and Inventory Mismatch Debug Prompt
Resolve cases where Placement inventory, allocation ratios, or reserved values disagree with nova.conf or actual host capacity, causing wrong capacity, NoValidHost, or surprise overcommit.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
RabbitMQ oslo.messaging RPC Timeout Debug Prompt
Triage MessagingTimeout and lost-reply errors between OpenStack services, distinguishing slow workers, broken reply queues, broker overload, and oslo.messaging misconfiguration.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Cinder Volume QoS & Front-End Throttling Design Prompt
Helps you design Cinder QoS specs and volume-type bindings to cap IOPS/throughput per volume and prevent a single tenant from saturating shared Ceph or LVM backends.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Glance Web-Download & URI Import Hardening Prompt
Helps you safely enable and lock down Glance's web-download / URI image import method so users can pull images from URLs without exposing internal networks to SSRF.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Keystone Hierarchical Project & Nested Quota Design Prompt
Helps you design a Keystone project hierarchy with nested quotas so business units self-manage sub-projects without exceeding a parent allocation.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Kolla-Ansible Config Override & Reconfigure Runbook Prompt
Helps you apply custom service config via Kolla-Ansible's /etc/kolla/config overrides and run a targeted reconfigure without redeploying the whole control plane.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Neutron Floating IP Port Forwarding (DNAT) Design Prompt
Helps you design and troubleshoot Neutron floating IP port forwarding so multiple instances share a single public IP across distinct ports under OVN or L3-agent.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Allocation Ratio & Overcommit Tuning Prompt
Helps you safely set per-host and per-aggregate CPU/RAM/disk allocation ratios in Nova so you maximize density without triggering OOM kills or noisy-neighbor problems.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Nova noVNC & Console Proxy Troubleshooting Prompt
Helps you diagnose broken instance consoles where noVNC/SPICE sessions fail to connect, time out, or show a black screen across the proxy chain.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Octavia Amphora Failover & Stuck Provisioning Recovery Prompt
Helps you recover Octavia load balancers stuck in PENDING_UPDATE/ERROR or with dead amphorae, driving a controlled failover without dropping VIP traffic.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Placement Resource Provider Inventory Reshape Debug Prompt
Helps you diagnose and repair Placement reshape failures where allocations get stranded between root and nested resource providers (NUMA, PCI, VGPU) after a Nova upgrade.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder Volume Replication & DR Failover Design Prompt
Design Cinder cheesecake-style volume replication and host failover/failback so block storage survives a backend or site outage with a tested, ordered recovery runbook.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Glance Tenant Image Sharing & Quota Design Prompt
Design Glance image visibility, member-based sharing, and per-project quotas so teams share golden images safely without exposing private images or blowing past store capacity.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Heat Software Deployment & Config Agent Debug Prompt
Diagnose stuck Heat SoftwareDeployment resources — os-collect-config, os-refresh-config, and os-apply-config agents, signaling, and the in-instance config hooks that silently hang stack creation.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Ironic Node Cleaning & Lifecycle Debug Prompt
Diagnose Ironic bare-metal nodes stuck in cleaning, clean-wait, or maintenance — covering the state machine, clean steps, ramdisk logs, and conductor takeover so nodes return to available.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Keystone Multi-Region & Domain-Scoped RBAC Design Prompt
Design Keystone identity for multi-region OpenStack — domains, projects, scoped roles, and the new secure RBAC (reader/member/admin + system scope) so tenancy stays isolated and least-privilege.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Neutron DHCP Agent & Address Scope Debug Prompt
Diagnose why instances fail to lease IPs, get wrong DNS, or cannot route between subnets — covering Neutron DHCP agents, dnsmasq, address scopes, and subnet pools.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Server Group & Anti-Affinity Scheduling Design Prompt
Design Nova server groups with affinity, anti-affinity, and soft policies so critical workloads spread across hosts, fault domains, and racks without breaking scheduling at scale.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Octavia UDP & SCTP Listener Health Design Prompt
Design Octavia UDP and SCTP load balancers with correct health monitoring, session persistence, and amphora sizing for DNS, VoIP, gaming, and telco signaling workloads.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Swift Account Reaper & Replication Lag Debug Prompt
Diagnose Swift consistency problems — lagging replication, stuck account-reaper deletions, and dispersion gaps — so deleted accounts actually free space and object durability stays intact.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder Generic Volume Group & Consistency Snapshot Design Prompt
Design Cinder generic volume groups and crash-consistent group snapshots so multi-volume applications (databases, clustered apps) can be snapshotted and restored as one atomic unit.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Beginner
Glance Interoperable Image Import Debug Prompt
Troubleshoot Glance's interoperable image import (web-download, glance-direct, copy-image) when uploads stall in 'importing', plugins fail, or multi-store copies never complete.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Heat Autoscaling Group & Aodh Alarm Design Prompt
Design a Heat OS::Heat::AutoScalingGroup with scale-up/down policies driven by Aodh/Ceilometer alarms, including cooldowns, signaling, and safe stack updates.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Keystone OAuth2.0 & mTLS Client Auth Design Prompt
Design certificate-bound OAuth2.0 client-credentials and mutual-TLS authentication for Keystone so machine clients get scoped tokens without long-lived passwords.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Neutron Metadata & Config-Drive Debug Prompt
Diagnose why instances fail to fetch metadata (no SSH key, cloud-init hangs at 169.254.169.254) across isolated networks, DVR, and config-drive fallback.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Nova Flavor Extra-Specs & Aggregate Scheduling Design Prompt
Design a clean flavor catalog with extra-specs and host-aggregate metadata so workloads land on the right hardware (GPU, high-mem, fast-NVMe) via the AggregateInstanceExtraSpecsFilter.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Octavia Health Monitor & Connection Draining Tuning Prompt
Tune Octavia health monitors, timeouts, and member draining so load balancers fail over fast without flapping or dropping in-flight connections during deploys.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Swift Container Sharding Design Prompt
Plan and execute Swift container database sharding for large accounts — identify hot containers, size shard ranges, run swift-manage-shard-ranges safely, and verify replication without downtime.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Cinder Volume Migration & Retype Runbook Prompt
Plan safe Cinder volume migrations and retypes — moving volumes between backends or volume types with the right migration policy and minimal attached-instance disruption.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Glance & Cinder Image-Volume Conversion Prompt
Design boot-from-volume and image↔volume conversion flows across Glance and Cinder — enabling the image-volume cache, format conversion, and fast Ceph clone-backed boots.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Keystone Fernet Key Rotation Rollout Prompt
Design a safe Fernet (and Credential) key rotation schedule and distribution mechanism across multi-node, multi-region Keystone so tokens never silently invalidate.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron BGP Dynamic Routing Design Prompt
Design Neutron dynamic routing with neutron-dynamic-routing/BGP (or OVN BGP agent) to advertise tenant and floating-IP prefixes upstream and retire static routes on the network fabric.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Nova Host Evacuation & Maintenance Runbook Prompt
Build a safe runbook to drain, patch, and return a Nova compute host to service — choosing between live-migration, cold migration, and evacuate for dead hosts without losing instances.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Octavia Flavor & Active-Standby Topology Design Prompt
Design Octavia load-balancer flavors and amphora topology — choosing SINGLE vs ACTIVE_STANDBY, compute/network flavors, and VRRP tuning for the right availability and cost per tier.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Placement Aggregates & Traits Allocation Design Prompt
Design Placement resource-provider aggregates, traits, and required/forbidden trait flavor extra-specs so the Nova scheduler lands workloads on the right hardware tiers.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Swift Erasure Coding Storage Policy Design Prompt
Design Swift erasure-coding storage policies — picking EC scheme, fragment/parity counts, and region layout to cut raw-capacity cost while keeping durability and read latency acceptable.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OpenStack Watcher Cluster Optimization Design Prompt
Design and tune OpenStack Watcher audits and action plans to consolidate workloads, rebalance noisy neighbors, and cut power draw without breaking affinity rules or SLAs.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder Volume Encryption & Barbican Key Design Prompt
Design and troubleshoot LUKS-based Cinder volume encryption backed by Barbican — encrypted volume types, key lifecycle, performance impact, and recovery when keys go missing.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Glance Image Signing & Trusted Boot Prompt
Enable and troubleshoot Glance image signature verification with Barbican-stored keys so Nova only boots cryptographically trusted images, plus a signing pipeline for golden images.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Beginner
Horizon Dashboard Troubleshooting Prompt
Diagnose OpenStack Horizon failures — login loops, blank panels, session/CSRF errors, slow page loads, and missing services — by tracing the Django app, Keystone, and API endpoint chain.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Keystone Application Credentials & Trusts Design Prompt
Design secure non-human authentication in Keystone using application credentials and trusts — scoping, access rules, expiry, and migrating CI/automation off long-lived passwords.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Neutron Security Groups & FWaaS v2 Design Prompt
Design tenant-facing security groups and FWaaS v2 firewall policies in Neutron — rule hygiene, stateful vs stateless, OVS conntrack behavior, and debugging silently dropped traffic.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron SR-IOV & Trunk Port Design Prompt
Design Neutron SR-IOV passthrough and trunk-port networking for high-throughput VNFs — PF/VF allocation, sriov-agent config, VLAN-aware VMs, and debugging ports stuck in BUILD.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Cells v2 Scaling & Architecture Prompt
Design and operate Nova Cells v2 for large OpenStack clouds — cell sizing, message-queue and DB partitioning, scheduler/conductor placement, and debugging cross-cell instance issues.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova NUMA, CPU Pinning & Huge-Page Flavor Design Prompt
Design Nova flavors and compute configuration for NFV/high-performance workloads — CPU pinning, NUMA topology, huge pages, and emulator-thread isolation — without stranding capacity.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Octavia TLS Termination & SNI Listener Design Prompt
Design Octavia load-balancer listeners for TLS termination and SNI — Barbican-backed certificates, cipher policy, HTTP/2, and debugging handshake failures across multiple hostnames.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder Over-Subscription & Thin Provisioning Design Prompt
Tune Cinder thin provisioning and over-subscription ratios safely — capacity reporting, max_over_subscription_ratio, reserved space, and scheduler capacity filters — so you maximize density without risking backend full-disk events that freeze every volume.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Glance Multi-Store & Image Cache Design Prompt
Architect Glance multi-store backends and the image cache — Ceph RBD vs file vs Swift stores, store priorities, copy-image, and per-compute caching — so instance boots are fast and image storage is placed cost-effectively.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Heat Template (HOT) Authoring Best Practices Prompt
Author maintainable, idempotent Heat Orchestration Templates — parameters, nested stacks, conditions, software deployments, and update policies — that deploy cleanly and update in place without destroying live resources.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Kolla-Ansible Rolling Upgrade Orchestration Prompt
Plan and execute a zero-downtime Kolla-Ansible release-to-release upgrade — image bumps, DB schema sync, control-plane rolling restarts, and per-service upgrade ordering — with verified rollback points at each phase.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
ML2/OVS to OVN Migration Planning Prompt
Plan a phased migration from Neutron ML2/OVS (with L3/DHCP agents) to OVN — control-plane mapping, agent-to-OVN-controller equivalence, data-plane cutover, and feature-parity gaps — with a tested rollback at each step.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron L3 Agent & DVR Routing Design Prompt
Design and validate a Neutron L3 routing topology — centralized vs distributed (DVR) vs HA routers, L3 agent placement, network-node bottlenecks, and SNAT/north-south traffic paths — for predictable east-west and external connectivity.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Nova Compute Service Down Recovery Prompt
Diagnose and recover nova-compute hosts that show as down in the service list — agent crashes, RabbitMQ heartbeat loss, clock skew, hypervisor lockups — without stranding instances or triggering false-positive evacuations.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Octavia Amphora Image Build & Rotation Prompt
Build, test, and rotate Octavia Amphora images safely — diskimage-builder pipelines, image tagging, certificate rotation, and rolling amphora replacement — so load balancers stay current and secure without dropping tenant traffic.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
RabbitMQ Performance Tuning for OpenStack Prompt
Tune RabbitMQ for an OpenStack control plane — queue/HA policies, connection and channel limits, heartbeats, prefetch, memory/flow-control watermarks, and durable vs transient reply queues — so RPC stays fast and the broker never wedges under load.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Cinder Multi-Backend & Volume-Type Design Prompt
Design Cinder multi-backend storage with sane volume types, extra-specs, QoS, and scheduler hints — so volumes land on the right backend (Ceph, LVM, NetApp) and the cinder-scheduler stops sending them to the wrong place.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Keystone Service Catalog & Endpoint Debug Prompt
Fix broken service-catalog and endpoint problems — clients hitting internal URLs from outside, wrong regions, missing endpoints, SSL/hostname mismatches, and 'public endpoint not found' errors after a deploy or TLS change.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Neutron OVS Dataplane & Flow Trace Prompt
Trace a packet through the Open vSwitch dataplane — br-int, br-tun, br-ex, VLAN/VXLAN tagging, and OpenFlow tables — to find where tenant traffic is silently dropped in an ML2/OVS deployment.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Nova Instance Stuck-State Recovery Prompt
Recover instances stuck in ERROR, BUILD, REBOOT, DELETING, or task_state limbo — reconcile the Nova DB state with the actual libvirt domain, and reset state safely without orphaning resources.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Placement & Resource Provider Debug Prompt
Diagnose why the Placement service reports the wrong capacity — phantom allocations, stale resource providers, inventory/allocation-ratio mismatches, and 'No valid host' failures rooted in Placement rather than the Nova scheduler filters.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OpenStack-Ansible Deployment Debug Prompt
Debug failing OpenStack-Ansible (OSA) playbook runs — LXC container issues, inventory/group_vars problems, repo-build and venv failures, and idempotency breaks — to get a clean converge on deploy or upgrade.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
OpenStack Floating IP & SNAT Debug Prompt
Diagnose broken north-south connectivity — floating IPs that don't reach instances, missing SNAT for outbound traffic, and router namespace problems across centralized L3 and DVR deployments.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
OpenStack Quota Management & Reconciliation Prompt
Design and audit project/domain quotas across Nova, Neutron, Cinder, and Placement — fix drifted usage counters, tier quotas sensibly, and stop 'Quota exceeded' errors that don't match real consumption.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Keystone Federation (SAML/OIDC) Debug Prompt
Diagnose Keystone federation — SAML IdP setup, OIDC integration, mapping rules, group mapping, federated user provisioning.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
OpenStack Security Hardening Prompt
Harden OpenStack — service-to-service TLS, secure RBAC, secure defaults audit, CVE response, audit logging.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
TripleO / Kolla-Ansible Deployment Debug Prompt
Diagnose OpenStack deployment failures with TripleO (overcloud) or Kolla-Ansible (containerized) — Heat stack failures, container crashes, configuration issues.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Cinder Backup & Restore Workflow Prompt
Design and operate Cinder backup workflows — backend choice (Ceph/Swift/NFS), incremental backups, cross-AZ restore, retention.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Ceph + OpenStack Integration Tuning Prompt
Tune Ceph as storage backend for OpenStack — Glance, Cinder, Nova ephemeral pools; performance tuning, capacity planning, snapshot/clone semantics.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Masakari Instance HA Debug Prompt
Diagnose Masakari instance HA — host monitor not triggering, instance evacuation not happening, process monitor issues, reserved host strategy.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Gnocchi & Ceilometer Metering Debug Prompt
Diagnose OpenStack telemetry — Ceilometer pollsters, Gnocchi storage, metric aggregation, missing measurements, retention policy.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Galera/MariaDB Recovery for OpenStack Prompt
Recover Galera/MariaDB cluster used by OpenStack — split-brain, single-node bootstrap, WSREP issues, schema changes on busy cluster.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Heat Stack Failure Diagnosis Prompt
Diagnose Heat orchestration stack create/update/delete failures — template errors, dependency cycles, partial rollback states, resource-level errors.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OpenStack Capacity Planning Prompt
Plan OpenStack capacity — CPU/RAM/disk oversubscription, growth modeling, hypervisor sizing, Cinder backend planning, network bandwidth.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Neutron QoS & Rate Limiting Design Prompt
Design Neutron QoS policies — bandwidth limits, DSCP marking, minimum guarantee, OVS vs OVN driver differences.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
X-Openstack-Global-Request-Id Trace (OpenStack)
Trace one API call across nova-api → conductor → scheduler → compute → neutron → cinder by following the X-Openstack-Global-Request-Id header through every service log.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
OVN Control Plane Deep Dive Prompt
Debug OVN control plane — Northbound/Southbound databases, ovn-northd, ovn-controller, logical flows, raft cluster health.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Barbican Secret Store Management Prompt
Manage Barbican secrets — secret/container/order model, HSM backend, key rotation, ACLs, Octavia integration.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Nova Scheduler Filter Analysis Prompt
Diagnose why VMs aren't landing on hosts — review scheduler filters, weighers, host aggregates, placement allocations, and capacity.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Ironic Bare Metal Deployment Debug Prompt
Diagnose Ironic deploys — node stuck in cleaning, deploy fails, PXE/iPXE issues, BMC unreachable, RAID config not applied.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Keystone Token & Policy Audit Prompt
Audit Keystone configuration, role assignments, and policy.yaml for auth failures, token expiration issues, and excessive privilege.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Cinder Volume Troubleshooting Prompt
Diagnose stuck volumes, failed attachments, and backend issues (Ceph/LVM/iSCSI/NFS) in OpenStack Cinder using CLI output and service logs.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Swift Object Storage Ring Management Prompt
Manage Swift rings — add/remove nodes, rebalance, replication health, partition power, dispersion.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Manila Shared Filesystem Troubleshooting Prompt
Diagnose Manila share issues — share stuck creating, access rules not applying, mount fails, backend (CephFS / NFS / GlusterFS) errors.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Magnum Kubernetes Cluster Debug Prompt
Diagnose Magnum K8s cluster creation/scale failures — cluster template, COE driver, Heat stack interaction, node not joining, certificate issues.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Designate DNS-as-a-Service Troubleshooting Prompt
Diagnose Designate issues — zones not propagating, BIND/PowerDNS backend issues, pool config, record updates not visible.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Advanced
Octavia Load Balancer Troubleshooting Prompt
Diagnose Octavia issues — amphora boot failures, listener/pool/health-monitor misconfig, certificate problems, failover, statistics.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - OpenStack Intermediate
Glance Image Lifecycle Management Prompt
Manage Glance images — store backends, image signing, format conversion, image cache, multi-store, deletion-protection.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt
About these OpenStack AI prompts
This is a free, curated collection of OpenStack AI prompts for DevOps and platform engineers — prompt templates that turn Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor into a focused OpenStack assistant. Instead of re-explaining your setup every time, each prompt has fill-in placeholders, a realistic worked example, and explicit safety and back-out notes, so it's safe to use against production OpenStack.
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