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Giulio Fidente 3d2893402c Describe how to provide node-specific hieradata
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Provisioning of node-specific Hieradata
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This guide assumes that your undercloud is already installed and ready to
deploy an overcloud.
It is possible to provide some node-specific hieradata via Heat environment
files and as such customize one or more settings for a specific node,
regardless of the Heat `ResourceGroup` to which it belongs.
As a sample use case, we will distribute a node-specific disks configuration
for a particular CephStorage node, which by default runs the `ceph-osd` service.
Collecting the node UUID
------------------------
The node-specific hieradata is provisioned based on the node UUID, which is
hardware dependent and immutable across reboots/reinstalls.
First make sure the introspection data is available for the target node, if it
isn't one can run introspection for a particular node as described in:
:doc:`introspect_single_node`.
Then extract the machine unique UUID for the target node with a command like::
openstack baremetal introspection data save NODE-ID | jq .extra.system.product.uuid
where `NODE-ID` is the target node Ironic UUID. The value returned by the above
command will be a unique and immutable machine UUID which isn't related to the
Ironic node UUID. For the next step, we'll assume the output was
`32E87B4C-C4A7-418E-865B-191684A6883B`.
Creating the Heat environment file
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Assuming we want to use `/dev/sdc` as data disk for `ceph-osd` on our target
node, we'll create a yaml file looking like the following
(eg. `my-node-settings.yaml`)::
resource_registry:
OS::TripleO::CephStorageExtraConfigPre: /path/to/tripleo-heat-templates/puppet/extraconfig/pre_deploy/per_node.yaml
parameter_defaults:
NodeDataLookup: |
{"32E87B4C-C4A7-418E-865B-191684A6883B": {"ceph::profile::params::osds": {"/dev/sdc": {}}}}
In the above example we're customizing only a single key for a single node, but
the structure is that of a UUID-mapped hash so it is possible to customize
multiple and different keys for multiple nodes.
Finally, add such an environment file to the deploy commandline::
openstack overcloud deploy [other overcloud deploy options] -e ~/my-node-settings.yaml