Create fails with `Floating IP pool not found`

[sjpb]

Working my way through the readme instructions.

I have a network which is apparently external - from Horizon:

Name	Subnets Associated	Shared	External
ilab	ilab 10.60.0.0/16     Yes	Yes

However if I try to run molecule create without specifying fip_pool I get an error:

"msg": "ResourceNotFound: 404: Client Error for url: http://10.60.253.1:8774/v2.1/os-floating-ips, Floating IP pool not found."}

This a Neutron-managed network so "floating IP pools" don't exist. I tried setting network name as the fip_pool but that fails with:

"msg": "Timeout waiting for the floating IP to be attached."

[sjpb]

Ok sorted, sort of. I was using the default molecule.yml. This sets fip_pool from MOLECULE_OPENSTACK_FIP_POOL, which if thats not set, fails (ends up as empty string?). Commenting out the fip_pool key under platform makes it work.

[nikParasyr]

Hi @sjpb.

Thank you for reporting this. As you found out commenting out fip_pool from molecule.yml solves it due to this.

In any case I think that either:

• this needs to be documented for other users hitting this problem or
• create.yml needs to be updated so that if fip_pool is empty or the env_var passed to it is undefined then floating_ip_pools should be omitted

The second approach is better as it will work out of the box for both external and non-external networks. I'll have a look later this week