No way to add nodes via IP address about gts HOT 1 CLOSED

The way to fix this problem is as follows (copied from our answer on StackOverflow):

So the quick answer is "it's not supported". I was seeing the case of adding crashed nodes as very similar to the case of adding new nodes in general, so the way to hack AppScale to make this work is as follows:

1. Check out the AppScale tools (AppScale/appscale-tools on github) and make a new command in bin called appscale-add-nodes, which takes a list of nodes to add to the currently running AppScale deployment.
2. Add a new SOAP-exposed method in the main AppScale code (AppScale/appscale on github) in the AppController (AppController/djinn.rb), called add_nodes_from_ips (see djinnServer.rb for how to expose methods via SOAP and their definitions in djinn.rb to see how they implement it), which takes in a single argument, the list of IPs to start up as AppScale nodes.
3. Have appscale-add-nodes connect to the Shadow AppController (whose IP address is in ~/.appscale/locations-appscale.yaml) and call your new SOAP-exposed method with the list of IPs to start AppScale on.

Your SOAP-exposed method should call start_appcontroller on each IP address, so that the AppController daemon is started there and can connect back to the other AppControllers. The list of roles to start is up to you - I'd recommend using the open role so that AppScale can decide what to use your new nodes for.

It's definitely a lot to take in, but I'm more than glad to update this answer in response to comments (and of course, I'll add a page on the AppScale wiki for each individual part of this, like how to add SOAP methods to the AppController in general).

from gts.