Operating Kolla¶
Versioning¶
Kolla uses the x.y.z
semver nomenclature for
naming versions. Kolla’s initial Pike release was 5.0.0
and the initial
Queens release is 6.0.0
. The Kolla community commits to release z-stream
updates every 45 days that resolve defects in the stable version in use and
publish those images to the Docker Hub registry.
To prevent confusion, the Kolla community recommends using an alpha identifier
x.y.z.a
where a
represents any customization done on the part of the
operator. For example, if an operator intends to modify one of the Docker files
or the repos from the originals and build custom images for the Pike version,
the operator should start with version 5.0.0.0 and increase alpha for each
release. Alpha tag usage is at discretion of the operator. The alpha identifier
could be a number as recommended or a string of the operator’s choosing.
To customize the version number uncomment openstack_release
in globals.yml
and specify the version number desired. If openstack_release
is not
specified, Kolla will deploy or upgrade using the version number information
contained in the kolla-ansible package.
Upgrade procedure¶
Note
If you have set enable_cells
to yes
then you should read the
upgrade notes in the Nova cells guide.
Kolla’s strategy for upgrades is to never make a mess and to follow consistent patterns during deployment such that upgrades from one environment to the next are simple to automate.
Kolla implements a one command operation for upgrading an existing deployment consisting of a set of containers and configuration data to a new deployment.
Limitations and Recommendations¶
Note
Varying degrees of success have been reported with upgrading the libvirt container with a running virtual machine in it. The libvirt upgrade still needs a bit more validation, but the Kolla community feels confident this mechanism can be used with the correct Docker graph driver.
Note
The Kolla community recommends the btrfs or aufs graph drivers for storing data as sometimes the LVM graph driver loses track of its reference counting and results in an unremovable container.
Note
Because of system technical limitations, upgrade of a libvirt container when
using software emulation (virt_type = qemu
in nova.conf), does not work
at all. This is acceptable because KVM is the recommended virtualization
driver to use with Nova.
Note
Please note that when the use_preconfigured_databases
flag is set to
"yes"
, you need to have the log_bin_trust_function_creators
set to
1
by your database administrator before performing the upgrade.
Preparation¶
While there may be some cases where it is possible to upgrade by skipping this
step (i.e. by upgrading only the openstack_release
version) - generally,
when looking at a more comprehensive upgrade, the kolla-ansible package itself
should be upgraded first. This will include reviewing some of the configuration
and inventory files. On the operator/master node, a backup of the
/etc/kolla
directory may be desirable.
If upgrading from 5.0.0
to 6.0.0
, upgrade the kolla-ansible package:
pip install --upgrade kolla-ansible==6.0.0
If this is a minor upgrade, and you do not wish to upgrade kolla-ansible itself, you may skip this step.
The inventory file for the deployment should be updated, as the newer sample
inventory files may have updated layout or other relevant changes.
Use the newer 6.0.0
one as a starting template, and merge your existing
inventory layout into a copy of the one from here:
/usr/share/kolla-ansible/ansible/inventory/
In addition the 6.0.0
sample configuration files should be taken from:
# CentOS
/usr/share/kolla-ansible/etc_examples/kolla
# Ubuntu
/usr/local/share/kolla-ansible/etc_examples/kolla
At this stage, files that are still at the 5.0.0
version - which need
manual updating are:
/etc/kolla/globals.yml
/etc/kolla/passwords.yml
For globals.yml
relevant changes should be merged into a copy of the new
template, and then replace the file in /etc/kolla
with the updated version.
For passwords.yml
, see the kolla-mergepwd
instructions in
Tips and Tricks.
For the kolla docker images, the openstack_release
is updated to 6.0.0
:
openstack_release: 6.0.0
Once the kolla release, the inventory file, and the relevant configuration
files have been updated in this way, the operator may first want to ‘pull’
down the images to stage the 6.0.0
versions. This can be done safely
ahead of time, and does not impact the existing services. (optional)
Run the command to pull the 6.0.0
images for staging:
kolla-ansible pull
At a convenient time, the upgrade can now be run (it will complete more quickly if the images have been staged ahead of time).
Perform the Upgrade¶
To perform the upgrade:
kolla-ansible upgrade
After this command is complete the containers will have been recreated from the new images.
Tips and Tricks¶
Kolla ships with several utilities intended to facilitate ease of operation.
tools/cleanup-containers
is used to remove deployed containers from the
system. This can be useful when you want to do a new clean deployment. It will
preserve the registry and the locally built images in the registry, but will
remove all running Kolla containers from the local Docker daemon. It also
removes the named volumes.
tools/cleanup-host
is used to remove remnants of network changes
triggered on the Docker host when the neutron-agents containers are launched.
This can be useful when you want to do a new clean deployment, particularly one
changing the network topology.
tools/cleanup-images --all
is used to remove all Docker images built by
Kolla from the local Docker cache.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY deploy
is used to deploy and start all Kolla
containers.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY destroy
is used to clean up containers and
volumes in the cluster.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY mariadb_recovery
is used to recover a
completely stopped mariadb cluster.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY prechecks
is used to check if all requirements
are meet before deploy for each of the OpenStack services.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY post-deploy
is used to do post deploy on deploy
node to get the admin openrc file.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY pull
is used to pull all images for containers.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY reconfigure
is used to reconfigure OpenStack
service.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY upgrade
is used to upgrades existing OpenStack
Environment.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY check
is used to do post-deployment smoke
tests.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY stop
is used to stop running containers.
kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY deploy-containers
is used to check and if
necessary update containers, without generating configuration.
Note
In order to do smoke tests, requires kolla_enable_sanity_checks=yes
.
kolla-mergepwd --old OLD_PASSWDS --new NEW_PASSWDS --final FINAL_PASSWDS
is used to merge passwords from old installation with newly generated
passwords during upgrade of Kolla release. The workflow is:
Save old passwords from
/etc/kolla/passwords.yml
intopasswords.yml.old
.Generate new passwords via
kolla-genpwd
aspasswords.yml.new
.Merge
passwords.yml.old
andpasswords.yml.new
into/etc/kolla/passwords.yml
.
For example:
mv /etc/kolla/passwords.yml passwords.yml.old
cp kolla-ansible/etc/kolla/passwords.yml passwords.yml.new
kolla-genpwd -p passwords.yml.new
kolla-mergepwd --old passwords.yml.old --new passwords.yml.new --final /etc/kolla/passwords.yml