Installation

This section describes how to install and configure the networking-baremetal plugin and ironic-neutron-agent.

The ironic-neutron-agent is a neutron agent that populates the host to physical network mapping for baremetal nodes in neutron. Neutron uses this to calculate the segment to host mapping information.

Install the networking-baremetal plugin and agent

At the command line:

$ pip install networking-baremetal

Or, if you have neutron installed in a virtualenv, install the networking-baremetal plugin to the same virtualenv:

$ . <path-to-neutron-venv>/bin/activate
$ pip install networking-baremetal

Or, use the package from your distribution. For RHEL7/CentOS7:

$ yum install python2-networking-baremetal python2-ironic-neutron-agent

Enable baremetal mechanism driver in the Networking service

To enable mechanism drivers in the ML2 plug-in, edit the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini configuration file. For example, this enables the openvswitch and baremetal mechanism drivers:

[ml2]
mechanism_drivers = openvswitch,baremetal

Add devices (switches) to manage

The baremetal mechanism ML2 plug-in provides a device driver plug-in interface. If a device driver for the switch model exist the baremetal ML2 plug-in can be configured to manage switch configuration, adding tenant VLANs and setting switch port VLAN configuration etc.

To add a device to manage, edit the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini configuration file. The example below enables devices: device_a.example.net and device_b.example.net. Both devices in the example is using the netconf-openconfig device driver. For each device a separate section in configuration defines the device and driver specific configuration.

[networking_baremetal]
enabled_devices = device_a.example.net,device_b.example.net

[device_a.example.net]
driver = netconf-openconfig
switch_info = device_a
switch_id = 00:53:00:0a:0a:0a
host = device_a.example.net
username = user
key_filename = /etc/neutron/ssh_keys/device_a_sshkey
hostkey_verify = false

[device_b.example.net]
driver = netconf-openconfig
switch_info = device_b
switch_id = 00:53:00:0b:0b:0b
host = device_a.example.net
username = user
key_filename = /etc/neutron/ssh_keys/device_a_sshkey
hostkey_verify = false

Configure ironic-neutron-agent

To configure the baremetal neutron agent, edit the neutron configuration /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ironic_neutron_agent.ini file. Add an [ironic] section. For example:

[ironic]
project_domain_name = Default
project_name = service
user_domain_name = Default
password = password
username = ironic
auth_url = http://identity-server.example.com/identity
auth_type = password
os_region = RegionOne

Start ironic-neutron-agent service

To start the agent either run it from the command line like in the example below or add it to the init system.

$ ironic-neutron-agent \
    --config-dir /etc/neutron \
    --config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ironic_neutron_agent.ini \
    --log-file /var/log/neutron/ironic_neutron_agent.log

You can create a systemd service file /etc/systemd/system/ironic-neutron-agent.service for ironic-neutron-agent for systemd based distributions. For example:

[Unit]
Description=OpenStack Ironic Neutron Agent
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=neutron
PermissionsStartOnly=true
TimeoutStartSec=0
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ironic-neutron-agent --config-dir /etc/neutron --config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ironic_neutron_agent.ini --log-file /var/log/neutron/ironic-neutron-agent.log
PrivateTmp=true
KillMode=process

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note

systemd service file may be already available if you are installing from package released by linux distributions.

Enable and start the ironic-neutron-agent service:

$ sudo systemctl enable ironic-neutron-agent.service
$ sudo systemctl start ironic-neutron-agent.service