There is a time once every 2 years when ubuntu team releases new LTS release. And then UCA joins with binary packages for current OpenStack development cycle. It is this time for Ubuntu 20.04 'focal'. Includes CI fix to pass: [CI] Temporarily block new Ansible The proper fix [1] needs fixing older branches before newer. This one allows to fix CI first, in the usual order. To revert after [1] gets merged in all relevant branches. [1] https://review.opendev.org/745648 Old-Change-Id: Ifbd37d8addd4322773118e2e9d46494741a8ae66 Related-Bug: #1891145 Depends-on: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/738994/ Change-Id: Ib8b70ee40ec2d19509cc84c0f530612f81907721 Co-Authored-By: Radosław Piliszek <radoslaw.piliszek@gmail.com>
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Quick Start
This guide provides step by step instructions to deploy OpenStack using Kolla Ansible on bare metal servers or virtual machines.
Recommended reading
It's beneficial to learn basics of both Ansible and Docker before running Kolla-Ansible.
Host machine requirements
The host machine must satisfy the following minimum requirements:
- 2 network interfaces
- 8GB main memory
- 40GB disk space
See the support matrix <user/support-matrix>
for details of supported host Operating Systems.
Install dependencies
Typically commands that use the system package manager in this section must be run with root privileges.
It is generally recommended to use a virtual environment to install
Kolla Ansible and its dependencies, to avoid conflicts with the system
site packages. Note that this is independent from the use of a virtual
environment for remote execution, which is described in Virtual Environments <user/virtual-environments.html>
.
For Debian or Ubuntu, update the package index.
sudo apt-get update
Install Python build dependencies:
For CentOS or RHEL 8, run:
sudo dnf install python3-devel libffi-devel gcc openssl-devel python3-libselinux
For Debian or Ubuntu, run:
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libffi-dev gcc libssl-dev
Install dependencies using a virtual environment
If not installing Kolla Ansible in a virtual environment, skip this section.
Create a virtual environment and activate it:
python3 -m venv /path/to/venv source /path/to/venv/bin/activate
The virtual environment should be activated before running any commands that depend on packages installed in it.
Ensure the latest version of pip is installed:
pip install -U pip
Install Ansible. Kolla Ansible requires at least Ansible
2.8
and supports up to2.9
.pip install 'ansible<2.10'
Install dependencies not using a virtual environment
If installing Kolla Ansible in a virtual environment, skip this section.
Install
pip
.For CentOS or RHEL, run:
sudo dnf install python3-pip
For Debian or Ubuntu, run:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
Ensure the latest version of pip is installed:
sudo pip install -U pip
Install Ansible. Kolla Ansible requires at least Ansible
2.8
and supports up to2.9
.For CentOS or RHEL, run:
sudo dnf install ansible
For Debian or Ubuntu, run:
sudo apt-get install ansible
Note
If the installed Ansible version does not meet the requirements, one can use pip:
sudo pip install -U 'ansible<2.10'
. Beware system package upgrades might interfere with that so it is recommended to uninstall the system package first. One might be better off with the virtual environment method to avoid this pitfall.
Install Kolla-ansible
Install Kolla-ansible for deployment or evaluation
Install kolla-ansible and its dependencies using
pip
.If using a virtual environment:
pip install kolla-ansible
If not using a virtual environment:
sudo pip install kolla-ansible
Create the
/etc/kolla
directory.sudo mkdir -p /etc/kolla sudo chown $USER:$USER /etc/kolla
Copy
globals.yml
andpasswords.yml
to/etc/kolla
directory.If using a virtual environment:
cp -r /path/to/venv/share/kolla-ansible/etc_examples/kolla/* /etc/kolla
If not using a virtual environment on CentOS or RHEL, run:
cp -r /usr/share/kolla-ansible/etc_examples/kolla/* /etc/kolla
If not using a virtual environment on Ubuntu, run:
cp -r /usr/local/share/kolla-ansible/etc_examples/kolla/* /etc/kolla
Copy
all-in-one
andmultinode
inventory files to the current directory.If using a virtual environment:
cp /path/to/venv/share/kolla-ansible/ansible/inventory/* .
If not using a virtual environment on CentOS or RHEL, run:
cp /usr/share/kolla-ansible/ansible/inventory/* .
If not using a virtual environment on Ubuntu, run:
cp /usr/local/share/kolla-ansible/ansible/inventory/* .
Install Kolla for development
Clone
kolla
andkolla-ansible
repositories from git.git clone https://github.com/openstack/kolla git clone https://github.com/openstack/kolla-ansible
Install requirements of
kolla
andkolla-ansible
:If using a virtual environment:
pip install ./kolla pip install ./kolla-ansible
If not using a virtual environment:
sudo pip install ./kolla sudo pip install ./kolla-ansible
Create the
/etc/kolla
directory.sudo mkdir -p /etc/kolla sudo chown $USER:$USER /etc/kolla
Copy the configuration files to
/etc/kolla
directory.kolla-ansible
holds the configuration files (globals.yml
andpasswords.yml
) inetc/kolla
.cp -r kolla-ansible/etc/kolla/* /etc/kolla
Copy the inventory files to the current directory.
kolla-ansible
holds inventory files (all-in-one
andmultinode
) in theansible/inventory
directory.cp kolla-ansible/ansible/inventory/* .
Configure Ansible
For best results, Ansible configuration should be tuned for your
environment. For example, add the following options to the Ansible
configuration file /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
:
[defaults]
host_key_checking=False
pipelining=True
forks=100
Further information on tuning Ansible is available here.
Prepare initial configuration
Inventory
The next step is to prepare our inventory file. An inventory is an Ansible file where we specify hosts and the groups that they belong to. We can use this to define node roles and access credentials.
Kolla-Ansible comes with all-in-one
and
multinode
example inventory files. The difference between
them is that the former is ready for deploying single node OpenStack on
localhost. If you need to use separate host or more than one node, edit
multinode
inventory:
Edit the first section of
multinode
with connection details of your environment, for example:[control] 10.0.0.[10:12] ansible_user=ubuntu ansible_password=foobar ansible_become=true # Ansible supports syntax like [10:12] - that means 10, 11 and 12. # Become clause means "use sudo". [network:children] control # when you specify group_name:children, it will use contents of group specified. [compute] 10.0.0.[13:14] ansible_user=ubuntu ansible_password=foobar ansible_become=true [monitoring] 10.0.0.10 # This group is for monitoring node. # Fill it with one of the controllers' IP address or some others. [storage:children] compute [deployment] localhost ansible_connection=local become=true # use localhost and sudo
To learn more about inventory files, check Ansible documentation.
Check whether the configuration of inventory is correct or not, run:
ansible -i multinode all -m ping
Note
Distributions might not come with Python pre-installed. That will cause errors in the
ping
module. To quickly install Python with Ansible you can run: for Debian or Ubuntu:ansible -i multinode all -m raw -a "apt-get -y install python3"
, and for CentOS or RHEL:ansible -i multinode all -m raw -a "dnf -y install python3"
.
Kolla passwords
Passwords used in our deployment are stored in
/etc/kolla/passwords.yml
file. All passwords are blank in
this file and have to be filled either manually or by running random
password generator:
For deployment or evaluation, run:
kolla-genpwd
For development, run:
cd kolla-ansible/tools
./generate_passwords.py
Kolla globals.yml
globals.yml
is the main configuration file for
Kolla-Ansible. There are a few options that are required to deploy
Kolla-Ansible:
Image options
User has to specify images that are going to be used for our deployment. In this guide DockerHub provided pre-built images are going to be used. To learn more about building mechanism, please refer
Building Container Images <admin/image-building.html>
.Kolla provides choice of several Linux distributions in containers:
- CentOS
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- RHEL
For newcomers, we recommend to use CentOS 8 or Ubuntu 20.04.
kolla_base_distro: "centos"
Next "type" of installation needs to be configured. Choices are:
- binary
-
using repositories like apt or dnf
- source
-
using raw source archives, git repositories or local source directory
Note
This only affects OpenStack services. Infrastructure services are always "binary".
Note
Source builds are proven to be slightly more reliable than binary.
kolla_install_type: "source"
Networking
Kolla-Ansible requires a few networking options to be set. We need to set network interfaces used by OpenStack.
First interface to set is "network_interface". This is the default interface for multiple management-type networks.
network_interface: "eth0"
Second interface required is dedicated for Neutron external (or public) networks, can be vlan or flat, depends on how the networks are created. This interface should be active without IP address. If not, instances won't be able to access to the external networks.
neutron_external_interface: "eth1"
To learn more about network configuration, refer
Network overview <admin/production-architecture-guide.html#network-configuration>
.Next we need to provide floating IP for management traffic. This IP will be managed by keepalived to provide high availability, and should be set to be not used address in management network that is connected to our
network_interface
.kolla_internal_vip_address: "10.1.0.250"
Enable additional services
By default Kolla-Ansible provides a bare compute kit, however it does provide support for a vast selection of additional services. To enable them, set
enable_*
to "yes". For example, to enable Block Storage service:enable_cinder: "yes"
Kolla now supports many OpenStack services, there is a list of available services. For more information about service configuration, Please refer to the
Services Reference Guide <reference/index.html>
.Multiple globals files
For a more granular control, enabling any option from the main
globals.yml
file can now be done using multiple yml files. Simply, create a directory calledglobals.d
under/etc/kolla/
and place all the relevant*.yml
files in there. Thekolla-ansible
script will, automatically, add all of them as arguments to theansible-playbook
command.An example use case for this would be if an operator wants to enable cinder and all its options, at a later stage than the initial deployment, without tampering with the existing
globals.yml
file. That can be achieved, using a separatecinder.yml
file, placed under the/etc/kolla/globals.d/
directory and adding all the relevant options in there.Virtual environment
It is recommended to use a virtual environment to execute tasks on the remote hosts. This is covered
Virtual Environments <user/virtual-environments.html>
.
Deployment
After configuration is set, we can proceed to the deployment phase. First we need to setup basic host-level dependencies, like docker.
Kolla-Ansible provides a playbook that will install all required services in the correct versions.
The following assumes the use of the multinode
inventory. If using a different inventory, such as
all-in-one
, replace the -i
argument
accordingly.
- For deployment or evaluation, run:
Bootstrap servers with kolla deploy dependencies:
kolla-ansible -i ./multinode bootstrap-servers
Do pre-deployment checks for hosts:
kolla-ansible -i ./multinode prechecks
Finally proceed to actual OpenStack deployment:
kolla-ansible -i ./multinode deploy
- For development, run:
Bootstrap servers with kolla deploy dependencies:
cd kolla-ansible/tools ./kolla-ansible -i ../../multinode bootstrap-servers
Do pre-deployment checks for hosts:
./kolla-ansible -i ../../multinode prechecks
Finally proceed to actual OpenStack deployment:
./kolla-ansible -i ../../multinode deploy
When this playbook finishes, OpenStack should be up, running and
functional! If error occurs during execution, refer to troubleshooting guide <user/troubleshooting.html>
.
Using OpenStack
Install the OpenStack CLI client:
pip install python-openstackclient
OpenStack requires an openrc file where credentials for admin user are set. To generate this file:
For deployment or evaluation, run:
kolla-ansible post-deploy . /etc/kolla/admin-openrc.sh
For development, run:
cd kolla-ansible/tools ./kolla-ansible post-deploy . /etc/kolla/admin-openrc.sh
Depending on how you installed Kolla-Ansible, there is a script that will create example networks, images, and so on.
For deployment or evaluation, run
init-runonce
script on CentOS or RHEL:/usr/share/kolla-ansible/init-runonce
Run
init-runonce
script on Ubuntu:/usr/local/share/kolla-ansible/init-runonce
For development, run:
kolla-ansible/tools/init-runonce