kayobe/doc/source/administration.rst

Administration

This section describes how to use kayobe to simplify post-deployment administrative tasks.

Reconfiguring Containerised Services

When configuration is changed, it is necessary to apply these changes across the system in an automated manner. To reconfigure the overcloud, first make any changes required to the configuration on the control host. Next, run the following command:

(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud service reconfigure

In case not all services' configuration have been modified, performance can be improved by specifying Ansible tags to limit the tasks run in kayobe and/or kolla-ansible's playbooks. This may require knowledge of the inner workings of these tools but in general, kolla-ansible tags the play used to configure each service by the name of that service. For example: nova, neutron or ironic. Use -t or --tags to specify kayobe tags and -kt or --kolla-tags to specify kolla-ansible tags. For example:

(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud service reconfigure --tags config --kolla-tags nova,ironic

Upgrading Containerised Services

Containerised control plane services may be upgraded by replacing existing containers with new containers using updated images which have been pulled from a registry or built locally. If using an updated version of Kayobe or upgrading from one release of OpenStack to another, be sure to follow the kayobe upgrade guide <upgrading>. It may be necessary to upgrade one or more services within a release, for example to apply a patch or minor release.

To upgrade the containerised control plane services:

(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud service upgrade

As for the reconfiguration command, it is possible to specify tags for Kayobe and/or kolla-ansible:

(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud service upgrade --tags config --kolla-tags keystone

Destroying the Overcloud Services

Note

This step will destroy all containers, container images, volumes and data on the overcloud hosts.

To destroy the overcloud services:

(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud service destroy --yes-i-really-really-mean-it

Deprovisioning The Cloud

Note

This step will power down the overcloud hosts and delete their nodes' instance state from the seed's ironic service.

To deprovision the overcloud:

(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud deprovision

Deprovisioning The Seed VM

Note

This step will destroy the seed VM and its data volumes.

To deprovision the seed VM:

(kayobe) $ kayobe seed vm deprovision

Saving Overcloud Service Configuration

It is often useful to be able to save the configuration of the control plane services for inspection or comparison with another configuration set prior to a reconfiguration or upgrade. This command will gather and save the control plane configuration for all hosts to the ansible control host:

(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud service configuration save

The default location for the saved configuration is $PWD/overcloud-config, but this can be changed via the output-dir argument. To gather configuration from a directory other than the default /etc/kolla, use the node-config-dir argument.

Generating Overcloud Service Configuration

Prior to deploying, reconfiguring, or upgrading a control plane, it may be useful to generate the configuration that will be applied, without actually applying it to the running containers. The configuration should typically be generated in a directory other than the default configuration directory of /etc/kolla, to avoid overwriting the active configuration:

(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud service configuration generate --node-config-dir /path/to/generated/config

The configuration will be generated remotely on the overcloud hosts in the specified directory, with one subdirectory per container. This command may be followed by kayobe ovecloud service configuration save to gather the generated configuration to the ansible control host.

Checking Network Connectivity

In complex networking environments it can be useful to be able to automatically check network connectivity and diagnose networking issues. To perform some simple connectivity checks:

(kayobe) $ kayobe network connectivity check

Note that this will run on the seed, seed hypervisor, and overcloud hosts. If any of these hosts are not expected to be active (e.g. prior to overcloud deployment), the set of target hosts may be limited using the --limit argument.

Baremetal Compute Node Management

When enrolling new hardware or performing maintenance, it can be useful to be able to manage many bare metal compute nodes simulteneously.

In all cases, commands are delegated to one of the controller hosts, and executed concurrently. Note that ansible's forks configuration option, which defaults to 5, may limit the number of nodes configured concurrently.

By default these commands wait for the state transition to complete for each node. This behavior can be changed by overriding the variable baremetal_compute_wait via -e baremetal_compute_wait=False

Manage

A node may need to be set to the manageable provision state in order to perform certain management operations, or when an enrolled node is transitioned into service. In order to manage a node, it must be in one of these states: enroll, available, cleaning, clean failed, adopt failed or inspect failed. To move the baremetal compute nodes to the manageable provision state:

(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute manage

Provide

In order for nodes to be scheduled by nova, they must be available. To move the baremetal compute nodes from the manageable state to the available provision state:

(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute provide

Inspect

Nodes must be in one of the following states: manageable, inspect failed, or available. To trigger hardware inspection on the baremetal compute nodes:

(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute inspect

Running Kayobe Playbooks on Demand

In some situations it may be necessary to run an individual Kayobe playbook. Playbooks are stored in <kayobe repo>/ansible/*.yml. To run an arbitrary Kayobe playbook:

(kayobe) $ kayobe playbook run <playbook> [<playbook>]

Running Kolla-ansible Commands

To execute a kolla-ansible command:

(kayobe) $ kayobe kolla ansible run <command>

Dumping Kayobe Configuration

The Ansible configuration space is quite large, and it can be hard to determine the final values of Ansible variables. We can use Kayobe's configuration dump command to view individual variables or the variables for one or more hosts. To dump Kayobe configuration for one or more hosts:

(kayobe) $ kayobe configuration dump

The output is a JSON-formatted object mapping hosts to their hostvars.

We can use the --var-name argument to inspect a particular variable or the --host or --hosts arguments to view a variable or variables for a specific host or set of hosts.