browbeat/ansible

Ansible for Browbeat

Playbooks for:

• Install Browbeat
• Install connmon
• Install pbench
• Install shaker
• Check overcloud for performance issues
• Adjust number of workers for nova/keystone
• Deploy keystone in eventlet/httpd
• Switch keystone token type to UUID/Fernet

To use

Install your public key into stack's authorized_keys

# ssh-copy-id stack@<undercloud-ip>

Then run gen_hosts.sh script to generate your overcloud's hosts file for ansible and generate a "jumpbox" ssh config:

# ./gen_hostfile.sh <undercloud-ip> ~/.ssh/config

**Review the hosts file the script generates.

Ansible Installers:

Install Browbeat

# ansible-playbook -i hosts install/browbeat.yml

Install Connmon

# ansible-playbook -i hosts install/connmon.yml

Install Pbench (Requires some knowledge of setting up pbench to have this functionality work completely)

# ansible-playbook -i hosts install/pbench.yml

Install Shaker

# ansible-playbook -i hosts install/shaker.yml

Performance Checks:

Run the check playbook to identify common performance issues:

# ansible-playbook -i hosts check/site.yml

Adjust your overcloud:

To modify the number of workers each service is running:

# ansible-playbook -i hosts browbeat/adjustment.yml -e "workers=8"

Nova and Keystone will be running 8 workers per service.

To modify number of workers each service is running and ensure Keystone is deployed in eventlet:

# ansible-playbook -i hosts browbeat/adjustment.yml -e "workers=8 keystone_deployment=eventlet"

To run Keystone in httpd, change keystone_deployment to httpd:

# ansible-playbook -i hosts browbeat/adjustment.yml -e "workers=8 keystone_deployment=httpd"

To switch to fernet tokens:

# ansible-playbook -i hosts browbeat/keystone_token_type.yml -e "token_provider=fernet"

To switch to UUID tokens:

# ansible-playbook -i hosts browbeat/keystone_token_type.yml -e "token_provider=uuid"