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.. _external-ceph-guide:
=============
External Ceph
=============
Sometimes it is necessary to connect OpenStack services to an existing Ceph
cluster instead of deploying it with Kolla. This can be achieved with only a
few configuration steps in Kolla.
Requirements
============
* An existing installation of Ceph
* Existing Ceph storage pools
* Existing credentials in Ceph for OpenStack services to connect to Ceph
(Glance, Cinder, Nova)
Enabling External Ceph
======================
Using external Ceph with Kolla means not to deploy Ceph via Kolla. Therefore,
disable Ceph deployment in ``/etc/kolla/global.yml``
::
enable_ceph: "no"
There are flags indicating individual services to use ceph or not which default
to the value of ``enable_ceph``. Those flags now need to be activated in order
to activate external Ceph integration. This can be done individually per
service in ``/etc/kolla/global.yml``:
::
glance_backend_ceph: "yes"
cinder_backend_ceph: "yes"
nova_backend_ceph: "yes"
The combination of ``enable_ceph: "no"`` and ``<service>_backend_ceph: "yes"``
triggers the activation of external ceph mechanism in Kolla.
Configuring External Ceph
=========================
Glance
------
Configuring Glance for Ceph includes three steps:
1) Configure RBD back end in glance-api.conf
2) Create Ceph configuration file in /etc/ceph/ceph.conf
3) Create Ceph keyring file in /etc/ceph/ceph.client.<username>.keyring
Step 1 is done by using Kolla's INI merge mechanism: Create a file in
``/etc/kolla/config/glance/glance-api.conf`` with the following contents:
::
[DEFAULT]
show_image_direct_url = True
[glance_store]
stores = rbd
default_store = rbd
rbd_store_pool = images
rbd_store_user = glance
rbd_store_ceph_conf = /etc/ceph/ceph.conf
Now put ceph.conf and the keyring file (name depends on the username created in
Ceph) into the same directory, for example:
/etc/kolla/config/glance/ceph.conf
::
[global]
fsid = 1d89fec3-325a-4963-a950-c4afedd37fe3
mon_initial_members = ceph-0
mon_host = 192.168.0.56
auth_cluster_required = cephx
auth_service_required = cephx
auth_client_required = cephx
/etc/kolla/config/glance/ceph.client.glance.keyring
::
[client.glance]
key = AQAg5YRXS0qxLRAAXe6a4R1a15AoRx7ft80DhA==
Kolla will pick up all files named ceph.* in this directory an copy them to the
/etc/ceph/ directory of the container.
Cinder
------
Configuring external Ceph for Cinder works very similar to
Glance.
Edit /etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-volume.conf with the following content:
::
[DEFAULT]
enabled_backends=rbd-1
[rbd-1]
rbd_ceph_conf=/etc/ceph/ceph.conf
rbd_user=cinder
backend_host=rbd:volumes
rbd_pool=volumes
volume_backend_name=rbd-1
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.rbd.RBDDriver
rbd_secret_uuid = {{ cinder_rbd_secret_uuid }}
.. note::
``cinder_rbd_secret_uuid`` can be found in ``/etc/kolla/passwords.yml`` file.
Edit /etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-backup.conf with the following content:
::
[DEFAULT]
backup_ceph_conf=/etc/ceph/ceph.conf
backup_ceph_user=cinder
backup_ceph_chunk_size = 134217728
backup_ceph_pool=backups
backup_driver = cinder.backup.drivers.ceph
backup_ceph_stripe_unit = 0
backup_ceph_stripe_count = 0
restore_discard_excess_bytes = true
Next, place the ceph.conf file into
/etc/kolla/config/cinder/ceph.conf:
::
[global]
fsid = 1d89fec3-325a-4963-a950-c4afedd37fe3
mon_initial_members = ceph-0
mon_host = 192.168.0.56
auth_cluster_required = cephx
auth_service_required = cephx
auth_client_required = cephx
Separate configuration options can be configured for
cinder-volume and cinder-backup by adding ceph.conf files to
/etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-volume and
/etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-backup respectively. They
will be merged with /etc/kolla/config/cinder/ceph.conf.
Ceph keyrings are deployed per service and placed into
cinder-volume and cinder-backup directories:
::
root@deploy:/etc/kolla/config# cat
cinder/cinder-backup/ceph.client.cinder.keyring
[client.cinder]
key = AQAg5YRXpChaGRAAlTSCleesthCRmCYrfQVX1w==
root@deploy:/etc/kolla/config# cat
cinder/cinder-volume/ceph.client.cinder.keyring
[client.cinder]
key = AQAg5YRXpChaGRAAlTSCleesthCRmCYrfQVX1w==
It is important that the files are named ceph.client*.
Nova
------
Put ceph.conf, nova client keyring file and cinder client keyring file into
``/etc/kolla/config/nova``:
::
$ ls /etc/kolla/config/nova
ceph.client.cinder.keyring ceph.client.nova.keyring ceph.conf
Configure nova-compute to use Ceph as the ephemeral back end by creating
``/etc/kolla/config/nova/nova-compute.conf`` and adding the following
contents:
::
[libvirt]
images_rbd_pool=vms
images_type=rbd
images_rbd_ceph_conf=/etc/ceph/ceph.conf
rbd_user=nova
.. note:: ``rbd_user`` might vary depending on your environment.