Production architecture guide¶

Interface configuration¶

In Kolla operators should configure following network interfaces:

• network_interface - While it is not used on its own, this provides the required default for other interfaces below.
• api_interface - This interface is used for the management network. The management network is the network OpenStack services uses to communicate to each other and the databases. There are known security risks here, so it’s recommended to make this network internal, not accessible from outside. Defaults to network_interface.
• kolla_external_vip_interface - This interface is public-facing one. It’s used when you want HAProxy public endpoints to be exposed in different network than internal ones. It is mandatory to set this option when kolla_enable_tls_external is set to yes. Defaults to network_interface.
• storage_interface - This is the interface that is used by virtual machines to communicate to Ceph. This can be heavily utilized so it’s recommended to use a high speed network fabric. Defaults to network_interface.
• cluster_interface - This is another interface used by Ceph. It’s used for data replication. It can be heavily utilized also and if it becomes a bottleneck it can affect data consistency and performance of whole cluster. Defaults to network_interface.
• swift_storage_interface - This interface is used by Swift for storage access traffic. This can be heavily utilized so it’s recommended to use a high speed network fabric. Defaults to storage_interface.
• swift_replication_interface - This interface is used by Swift for storage replication traffic. This can be heavily utilized so it’s recommended to use a high speed network fabric. Defaults to swift_storage_interface.
• tunnel_interface - This interface is used by Neutron for vm-to-vm traffic over tunneled networks (like VxLan). Defaults to network_interface.
• neutron_external_interface - This interface is required by Neutron. Neutron will put br-ex on it. It will be used for flat networking as well as tagged vlan networks. Has to be set separately.
• dns_interface - This interface is required by Designate and Bind9. Is used by public facing DNS requests and queries to bind9 and designate mDNS services. Defaults to network_interface.
• bifrost_network_interface - This interface is required by Bifrost. Is used to provision bare metal cloud hosts, require L2 connectivity with the bare metal cloud hosts in order to provide DHCP leases with PXE boot options. Defaults to network_interface.

Storage driver¶

In certain distributions Docker storage driver defaults to devicemapper, which can heavily hit performance of builds and deploys. We suggest to use btrfs or aufs as driver. More details on which storage driver to use in Docker documentation.

Volumes¶

Kolla puts nearly all of persistent data in Docker volumes. These volumes are created in Docker working directory, which defaults to /var/lib/docker directory.

We recommend to ensure that this directory has enough space and is placed on fast disk as it will affect performance of builds, deploys as well as database commits and rabbitmq.

This becomes especially relevant when enable_central_logging and openstack_logging_debug are both set to true, as fully loaded 130 node cluster produced 30-50GB of logs daily.