Bifrost with Keystone¶
Note
Use of keystone with bifrost is a very new feature and should be considered an advanced topic. Please feel free to reach out to the bifrost contributors and the ironic community as a whole in the project’s IRC channel.
Installation with Keystone¶
Bifrost can now install and make use of keystone. In order to enable
this as part of the installation, the enable_keystone variable
must be set to true.
Either in playbooks/inventory/group_vars/target or on the
command line during installation. Example:
ansible-playbook -vvvv -i inventory/target install.yaml -e enable_keystone=true
However, prior to installation, overriding credentials should be set in order to customize the deployment to meet your needs. See:
playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/main.yml
playbooks/roles/bifrost-keystone-install/defaults/main.yml
Using an existing Keystone¶
If you choose to install bifrost using an existing keystone, this
should be possible, however it has not been tested. In this case you
will need to set the appropriate defaults, via
playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/main.yml
which would be a good source for the role level defaults.
Ideally, when setting new defaults, they should be set in the
playbooks/inventory/group_vars/target file.
Creation of clouds.yaml¶
By default, during bifrost installation, when keystone is enabled,
a file will be written to the user’s home directory that is executing
the installation. That file can be located at
~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml. The cloud that is written
to that file is named bifrost.
Use of bifrost with Keystone¶
Ultimately, as bifrost was designed for relatively short-lived
installations for rapid hardware deployment, the default operating
mode is referred to as noauth mode. With that, in order to
leverage keystone authentication for the roles, one of the
following steps need to take place.
Update the role defaults for each role you plan to make use. This may not make much sense for most users, unless they are carrying such changes as downstream debt.
Invoke ansible-playbook with variables being set to override the default behavior. Example:
-e noauth_mode=false -e cloud_name=bifrost
Set the global defaults for tagret (
master/playbooks/inventory/group_vars/target).
OpenStack Client¶
A user wishing to invoke OSC commands against the bifrost
installation, should set the OS_CLOUD environment variable.
An example of setting the environment variable and then executing
the OSC command to list all baremetal nodes:
export OS_CLOUD=bifrost
openstack baremetal node list
Keystone roles¶
Ironic, which is the underlying OpenStack component bifrost helps a user leverage, supports two different roles in keystone that helps govern the rights a user has in keystone.
These roles are baremetal_admin and baremetal_observer
and a user can learn more about the roles from the ironic install
guide.
Use of playbooks with Keystone¶
The OpenStack Ansible modules utilize os-client-config to obtain authentication details to connect to determine details.
If noauth_mode is explicitly disabled, the bifrost roles that
speak with Ironic for actions such as enrollment of nodes and
deployment, automatically attempt to collect authentication
data from os-client-config. Largely these details are governed
as environment variables.
That being said, os-client-config supports the concept of clouds
and an a user can explicitly select the cloud they wish to deploy
to via the cloud_name parameter.