======= Ansible ======= Ansible configuration is described in detail in the `Ansible documentation `__. It is explained elsewhere in this guide how to configure Ansible for :ref:`Kayobe ` and :ref:`Kolla Ansible `. In this section we cover some options for tuning Ansible for performance and scale. SSH pipelining ============== SSH pipelining is disabled in Ansible by default, but is generally safe to enable, and provides a reasonable performance improvement. .. code-block:: ini :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/ansible.cfg`` [ssh_connection] pipelining = True Forks ===== By default Ansible executes tasks using a fairly conservative 5 process forks. This limits the parallelism that allows Ansible to scale. Most Ansible control hosts will be able to handle far more forks than this. You will need to experiment to find out the CPU, memory and IO limits of your machine. For example, to increase the number of forks to 20: .. code-block:: ini :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/ansible.cfg`` [defaults] forks = 20 Fact caching ============ .. note:: Fact caching will not work correctly in Kayobe prior to the Ussuri release. By default, Ansible gathers facts for each host at the beginning of every play, unless ``gather_facts`` is set to ``false``. With a large number of hosts this can result in a significant amount of time spent gathering facts. One way to improve this is through Ansible's support for `fact caching `__. In order to make this work with Kayobe, it is necessary to change Ansible's `gathering `__ configuration option to ``smart``. Additionally, it is necessary to use separate fact caches for Kayobe and Kolla Ansible due to some of the facts (e.g. ``ansible_facts.user_uid`` and ``ansible_facts.python``) differing. Example ------- In the following example we configure Kayobe and Kolla Ansible to use fact caching using the `jsonfile cache plugin `__. .. code-block:: ini :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/ansible.cfg`` [defaults] gathering = smart fact_caching = jsonfile fact_caching_connection = /tmp/kayobe-facts .. code-block:: ini :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/kolla/ansible.cfg`` [defaults] gathering = smart fact_caching = jsonfile fact_caching_connection = /tmp/kolla-ansible-facts You may also wish to set the expiration timeout for the cache via ``[defaults] fact_caching_timeout``. Fact gathering ============== Fact filtering -------------- Filtering of facts can be used to speed up Ansible. Environments with many network interfaces on the network and compute nodes can experience very slow processing with Kayobe and Kolla Ansible. This happens due to the processing of the large per-interface facts with each task. To avoid storing certain facts, we can use the ``kayobe_ansible_setup_filter`` variable, which is used as the ``filter`` argument to the ``setup`` module. One case where this is particularly useful is to avoid collecting facts for virtual tap (beginning with t) and bridge (beginning with q) interfaces created by Neutron. These facts are large map values which can consume a lot of resources on the Ansible control host. Kayobe and Kolla Ansible typically do not need to reference them, so they may be filtered. For example, to avoid collecting facts beginning with q or t: .. code-block:: yaml :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/globals.yml`` kayobe_ansible_setup_filter: "ansible_[!qt]*" Similarly, for Kolla Ansible (notice the similar but different file names): .. code-block:: yaml :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/kolla/globals.yml`` kolla_ansible_setup_filter: "ansible_[!qt]*" This causes Ansible to collect but not store facts matching that pattern, which includes the virtual interface facts. Currently we are not referencing other facts matching the pattern within Kolla Ansible. Note that including the 'ansible_' prefix causes meta facts ``module_setup`` and ``gather_subset`` to be filtered, but this seems to be the only way to get a good match on the interface facts. The exact improvement will vary, but has been reported to be as large as 18x on systems with many virtual interfaces. Fact gathering subsets ---------------------- It is also possible to configure which subsets of facts are gathered, via ``kayobe_ansible_setup_gather_subset``, which is used as the ``gather_subset`` argument to the ``setup`` module. For example, if one wants to avoid collecting facts via facter: .. code-block:: yaml :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/globals.yml`` kayobe_ansible_setup_gather_subset: "all,!facter" Similarly, for Kolla Ansible (notice the similar but different file names): .. code-block:: yaml :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/kolla/globals.yml`` kolla_ansible_setup_gather_subset: "all,!facter" Max failure percentage ====================== It is possible to specify a `maximum failure percentage `__ using ``kayobe_max_fail_percentage``. By default this is undefined, which is equivalent to a value of 100, meaning that Ansible will continue execution until all hosts have failed or completed. For example: .. code-block:: yaml :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/globals.yml`` kayobe_max_fail_percentage: 50 A max fail percentage may be set for the ``kayobe * host configure`` commands using ``host_configure_max_fail_percentage``, or for a specific playbook using ``_max_fail_percentage`` where ```` is the playbook name with dashes replaced with underscores and without the ``.yml`` extension. For example: .. code-block:: yaml :caption: ``$KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH/globals.yml`` kayobe_max_fail_percentage: 50 host_configure_max_fail_percentage: 25 time_max_fail_percentage: 100