OpenStack-Ansible Cinder

This Ansible role installs and configures OpenStack Cinder.

The following Cinder services are managed by the role:

• cinder-api
• cinder-volume
• cinder-scheduler

By default, Cinder API v1 and v2 are both enabled.

Support for various Cinder backends is supported by the role. See role internals for further details.

Support for volume backups to Swift or Ceph is support by the role. See role internals for further details.

Default Variables

../../defaults/main.yml

Required Variables

This list is not exhaustive at present. See role internals for further details.

# Comma separated list of Glance API servers
cinder_glance_api_servers: "http://glance_server:9292"

# Hostname or IP address of the Galera database
cinder_galera_address: "1.2.3.4"

Example Playbook

- name: Installation and setup of cinder
  hosts: cinder_all
  user: root
  roles:
    - { role: "os_cinder", tags: [ "os-cinder" ] }
  vars:
    cinder_glance_api_servers: "http://glance_server:9292"
    cinder_galera_address: "{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}"

Tags

This role supports two tags: cinder-install and cinder-config

The cinder-install tag can be used to install and upgrade.

The cinder-config tag can be used to maintain configuration of the service.