Nova role for OpenStack-Ansible

tags

openstack, nova, cloud, ansible

category

*nix

This role will install the following Systemd services:

  • nova-server

  • nova-compute

To clone or view the source code for this repository, visit the role repository for os_nova.

Default variables

# Enable/Disable barbican configurations
nova_barbican_enabled: False
# Enable/Disable designate configurations
nova_designate_enabled: False
# Notification topics for designate.
nova_notifications_designate: notifications_designate
# Enable/Disable ceilometer configurations
nova_ceilometer_enabled: False
# Enable/Disable nova versioned notification
nova_versioned_notification_enabled: False

nova_memcached_servers: "{{ memcached_servers }}"

## Verbosity Options
debug: False

# Set the host which will execute the shade modules
# for the service setup. The host must already have
# clouds.yaml properly configured.
nova_service_setup_host: "{{ openstack_service_setup_host | default('localhost') }}"
nova_service_setup_host_python_interpreter: "{{ openstack_service_setup_host_python_interpreter | default((nova_service_setup_host == 'localhost') | ternary(ansible_playbook_python, ansible_python['executable'])) }}"

# Set the host which will run compute initialization tasks such as checking
# for a compute node to be up and running cell discovery.
nova_conductor_setup_host: "{{ groups[nova_services['nova-conductor']['group']][0] }}"

# Set the package install state for distribution and pip packages
# Options are 'present' and 'latest'
nova_package_state: "latest"
nova_pip_package_state: "latest"

# Set installation method.
nova_install_method: "source"
nova_venv_python_executable: "{{ openstack_venv_python_executable | default('python2') }}"

nova_git_repo: https://opendev.org/openstack/nova
nova_git_install_branch: master

nova_upper_constraints_url: "{{ requirements_git_url | default('https://releases.openstack.org/constraints/upper/' ~ requirements_git_install_branch | default('master')) }}"
nova_git_constraints:
  - "git+{{ nova_git_repo }}@{{ nova_git_install_branch }}#egg=nova"
  - "--constraint {{ nova_upper_constraints_url }}"
nova_pip_install_args: "{{ pip_install_options | default('') }}"

# Name of the virtual env to deploy into
nova_venv_tag: "{{ venv_tag | default('untagged') }}"
nova_bin: "{{ _nova_bin }}"

## Nova user information
nova_system_user_name: nova
nova_system_group_name: nova
nova_system_shell: /bin/bash
nova_system_comment: nova system user
nova_system_home_folder: "/var/lib/{{ nova_system_user_name }}"
nova_libvirt_save_path: "{{ nova_system_home_folder }}/save"

nova_lock_path: "/var/lock/nova"

## Manually specified nova UID/GID
# Deployers can specify a UID for the nova user as well as the GID for the
# nova group if needed. This is commonly used in environments where shared
# storage is used, such as NFS or GlusterFS, and nova UID/GID values must be
# in sync between multiple servers.
#
# WARNING: Changing these values on an existing deployment can lead to
#          failures, errors, and instability.
#
# nova_system_user_uid = <UID>
# nova_system_group_gid = <GID>

## Database info
nova_db_setup_host: "{{ ('galera_all' in groups) | ternary(groups['galera_all'][0], 'localhost') }}"
nova_galera_address: "{{ galera_address | default('127.0.0.1') }}"
nova_galera_user: nova
nova_galera_database: nova
nova_db_max_overflow: 10
nova_db_max_pool_size: 120
nova_db_pool_timeout: 30
# Toggle whether nova connects via an encrypted connection
nova_galera_use_ssl: "{{ galera_use_ssl | default(False) }}"
# The path where to store the database server CA certificate
nova_galera_ssl_ca_cert: "{{ galera_ssl_ca_cert | default('/etc/ssl/certs/galera-ca.pem') }}"

## DB API
nova_api_galera_address: "{{ nova_galera_address }}"
nova_api_galera_user: nova_api
nova_api_galera_database: nova_api
nova_api_db_max_overflow: 10
nova_api_db_max_pool_size: 120
nova_api_db_pool_timeout: 30

## DB Cells
nova_cell0_database: "nova_cell0"
nova_cell1_name: "cell1"

## Oslo Messaging

# RPC
nova_oslomsg_rpc_host_group: "{{ oslomsg_rpc_host_group | default('rabbitmq_all') }}"
nova_oslomsg_rpc_setup_host: "{{ (nova_oslomsg_rpc_host_group in groups) | ternary(groups[nova_oslomsg_rpc_host_group][0], 'localhost') }}"
nova_oslomsg_rpc_transport: "{{ oslomsg_rpc_transport | default('rabbit') }}"
nova_oslomsg_rpc_servers: "{{ oslomsg_rpc_servers | default('127.0.0.1') }}"
nova_oslomsg_rpc_port: "{{ oslomsg_rpc_port | default('5672') }}"
nova_oslomsg_rpc_use_ssl: "{{ oslomsg_rpc_use_ssl | default(False) }}"
nova_oslomsg_rpc_userid: nova
nova_oslomsg_rpc_vhost: /nova

# Notify
nova_oslomsg_notify_host_group: "{{ oslomsg_notify_host_group | default('rabbitmq_all') }}"
nova_oslomsg_notify_setup_host: "{{ (nova_oslomsg_notify_host_group in groups) | ternary(groups[nova_oslomsg_notify_host_group][0], 'localhost') }}"
nova_oslomsg_notify_transport: "{{ oslomsg_notify_transport | default('rabbit') }}"
nova_oslomsg_notify_servers: "{{ oslomsg_notify_servers | default('127.0.0.1') }}"
nova_oslomsg_notify_port: "{{ oslomsg_notify_port | default('5672') }}"
nova_oslomsg_notify_use_ssl: "{{ oslomsg_notify_use_ssl | default(False) }}"
nova_oslomsg_notify_userid: "{{ nova_oslomsg_rpc_userid }}"
nova_oslomsg_notify_password: "{{ nova_oslomsg_rpc_password }}"
nova_oslomsg_notify_vhost: "{{ nova_oslomsg_rpc_vhost }}"

## Qdrouterd info
# TODO(ansmith): Change structure when more backends will be supported
nova_oslomsg_amqp1_enabled: "{{ nova_oslomsg_rpc_transport == 'amqp' }}"

## Nova virtualization Types
# The nova_virt_types dictionary contains global overrides used for
#  specific compute types. Every variable inside of this dictionary
#  will become an ansible fact. This gives the user the option to set
#  or customize things based on their needs without having to redefine
#  this entire data structure. Every supported compute type will be
#  have its specific variable requirements set under its short name.
nova_virt_types:
  ironic:
    nova_compute_driver: ironic.IronicDriver
    nova_reserved_host_memory_mb: 0
    nova_scheduler_tracks_instance_changes: False
  kvm:
    nova_compute_driver: libvirt.LibvirtDriver
    nova_reserved_host_memory_mb: 2048
    nova_scheduler_tracks_instance_changes: True
  qemu:
    nova_compute_driver: libvirt.LibvirtDriver
    nova_reserved_host_memory_mb: 2048
    nova_scheduler_tracks_instance_changes: True
    nova_cpu_mode: "none"


# If this is not set, then the playbook will try to guess it.
#nova_virt_type: kvm

# Enable Kernel Shared Memory (KSM)
nova_compute_ksm_enabled: False

#if set, nova_virt_type must be one of these:
nova_supported_virt_types:
  - qemu
  - kvm
  - ironic

## Nova Auth
nova_service_region: RegionOne
nova_service_project_name: "service"
nova_service_project_domain_id: default
nova_service_user_domain_id: default
nova_service_user_name: "nova"
nova_service_role_name: "admin"

## Keystone authentication middleware
nova_keystone_auth_plugin: password

## Nova enabled apis
nova_enabled_apis: "osapi_compute,metadata"

## Nova v2.1
nova_service_name: nova
nova_service_type: compute
nova_service_proto: http
nova_service_publicuri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_publicuri_proto | default(nova_service_proto) }}"
nova_service_adminuri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_adminuri_proto | default(nova_service_proto) }}"
nova_service_internaluri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_internaluri_proto | default(nova_service_proto) }}"
nova_service_bind_address: "{{ openstack_service_bind_address | default('0.0.0.0') }}"
nova_service_port: 8774
nova_service_description: "Nova Compute Service"
nova_service_publicuri: "{{ nova_service_publicuri_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_service_port }}"
nova_service_publicurl: "{{ nova_service_publicuri }}/v2.1"
nova_service_adminuri: "{{ nova_service_adminuri_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_service_port }}"
nova_service_adminurl: "{{ nova_service_adminuri }}/v2.1"
nova_service_internaluri: "{{ nova_service_internaluri_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_service_port }}"
nova_service_internalurl: "{{ nova_service_internaluri }}/v2.1"

## Nova spice
nova_spice_html5proxy_base_proto: "{{ openstack_service_publicuri_proto | default('http') }}"
nova_spice_html5proxy_base_port: 6082
nova_spice_html5proxy_base_uri: "{{ nova_spice_html5proxy_base_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_spice_html5proxy_base_port }}"
nova_spice_html5proxy_base_url: "{{ nova_spice_html5proxy_base_uri }}/spice_auto.html"
nova_spice_console_agent_enabled: "{{ ansible_architecture != 'aarch64' }}"
nova_spicehtml5_git_repo: "{{ spicehtml5_git_repo | default('https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-html5.git') }}"
nova_spicehtml5_git_install_branch: "{{ spicehtml5_git_install_branch | default('master') }}"

## Nova novnc
nova_novncproxy_proto: "{{ openstack_service_publicuri_proto | default('http') }}"
nova_novncproxy_port: 6080
nova_novncproxy_base_uri: "{{ nova_novncproxy_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_novncproxy_port }}"
nova_novncproxy_base_url: "{{ nova_novncproxy_base_uri }}/vnc_lite.html"
nova_novncproxy_vncserver_proxyclient_address: "{{ (nova_management_address == 'localhost') | ternary('127.0.0.1', nova_management_address) }}"
nova_novncproxy_vncserver_listen: "{{ (nova_management_address == 'localhost') | ternary('127.0.0.1', nova_management_address) }}"
nova_novncproxy_agent_enabled: True
nova_novncproxy_git_repo: "{{ novncproxy_git_repo | default('https://github.com/novnc/noVNC') }}"
nova_novncproxy_git_install_branch: "{{ novncproxy_git_install_branch | default('master') }}"

## Nova serialconsole
nova_serialconsoleproxy_proto: "ws"
nova_serialconsoleproxy_port: 6083
nova_serialconsoleproxy_port_range: 10000:20000
nova_serialconsoleproxy_base_uri: "{{ nova_serialconsoleproxy_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_serialconsoleproxy_port }}"
nova_serialconsoleproxy_base_url: "{{ nova_serialconsoleproxy_base_uri }}"
nova_serialconsoleproxy_serialconsole_proxyserver_proxyclient_address: "{{ ansible_host }}"
nova_serialconsoleproxy_enabled: True

## Nova metadata
nova_metadata_proxy_enabled: "{{ nova_network_services[nova_network_type]['metadata_proxy_enabled'] | bool }}"
nova_metadata_bind_address: "{{ openstack_service_bind_address | default('0.0.0.0') }}"
nova_metadata_port: 8775

## Nova compute
nova_nested_virt_enabled: False

# Uwsgi settings
nova_wsgi_processes_max: 16
nova_wsgi_processes: "{{ [[ansible_processor_vcpus|default(1), 1] | max * 2, nova_wsgi_processes_max] | min }}"
nova_wsgi_threads: 1

## Nova libvirt
# Warning: If nova_libvirt_inject_key or nova_libvirt_inject_password are enabled for Ubuntu compute hosts
# then the kernel will be made readable to nova user (a requirement for libguestfs).
# See Launchpad bugs 1507915 (Nova), 759725 (Ubuntu), and http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html
nova_libvirt_inject_key: False
# inject partition options:
#  -2 => disable, -1 => inspect (libguestfs only), 0 => not partitioned, >0 => partition number
nova_libvirt_inject_partition: -2
nova_libvirt_inject_password: False
nova_libvirt_disk_cachemodes: '{{ nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool is defined | ternary("network=writeback", "") }}'
nova_libvirt_hw_disk_discard: '{{ nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool is defined | ternary("unmap", "ignore") }}'
nova_libvirt_live_migration_inbound_addr: '{{ (nova_management_address == "localhost") | ternary("127.0.0.1", nova_management_address) }}'

## Nova console
nova_console_agent_enabled: True
# Set the console type. Presently the only options are ["spice", "novnc", "serialconsole"].
nova_console_type: "{{ (ansible_architecture == 'aarch64') | ternary('serialconsole', 'novnc') }}"

# Nova console ssl info, presently only used by novnc console type
nova_console_ssl_dir: "/etc/nova/ssl"
nova_console_ssl_cert: "{{ nova_console_ssl_dir }}/nova-console.pem"
nova_console_ssl_key: "{{ nova_console_ssl_dir }}/nova-console.key"

# Set to true when terminating SSL/TLS at a load balancer
nova_external_ssl: false

# External SSL forwarding proto
nova_secure_proxy_ssl_header: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO

## Nova global config
nova_image_cache_manager_interval: 0

# Comma separated list of Glance API servers
nova_glance_api_servers: "{{ (glance_service_internalurl | default('http://localhost')) | urlsplit('scheme') ~ '://' ~ (glance_service_internalurl | default('http://localhost')) | urlsplit('netloc') }}"

nova_network_type: linuxbridge

nova_network_services:
  linuxbridge:
    use_forwarded_for: False
    metadata_proxy_enabled: True
  nuage:
    use_forwarded_for: True
    metadata_proxy_enabled: True
    ovs_bridge: alubr0
  calico:
    use_forwarded_for: True
    metadata_proxy_enabled: False
  nsx:
    use_forwarded_for: True
    metadata_proxy_enabled: True
    ovs_bridge: nsx-managed

# Nova Scheduler
nova_cpu_allocation_ratio: 2.0
nova_disk_allocation_ratio: 1.0
nova_max_io_ops_per_host: 10
nova_ram_allocation_ratio: 1.0
nova_ram_weight_multiplier: 5.0
nova_reserved_host_disk_mb: 2048

nova_scheduler_host_subset_size: 10
nova_scheduler_max_attempts: 5
nova_scheduler_default_filters:
  - AvailabilityZoneFilter
  - ComputeFilter
  - AggregateNumInstancesFilter
  - AggregateIoOpsFilter
  - ComputeCapabilitiesFilter
  - ImagePropertiesFilter
  - ServerGroupAntiAffinityFilter
  - ServerGroupAffinityFilter
  - NUMATopologyFilter

nova_scheduler_extra_filters: []

# This should be tuned depending on the number of compute hosts present in the
# deployment. Large clouds may wish to disable automatic discovery by setting
# this value to -1.
nova_discover_hosts_in_cells_interval: "{{ 300 if groups['nova_compute'] | length > 10 else 60 }}"

# If you want to regenerate the nova users SSH keys, on each run, set this var to True
# Otherwise keys will be generated on the first run and not regenerated each run.
nova_recreate_keys: False

# Define nfs information to enable nfs shares as mounted directories for
# nova. The ``nova_nfs_client`` value is a list of dictionaries that must
# be filled out completely to enable the persistent NFS mounts.
#
# Example of the expected dict structure:
# nova_nfs_client:
#   - server: "127.0.0.1"                   ## Hostname or IP address of NFS Server
#     remote_path: "/instances"             ## Remote path from the NFS server's export
#     local_path: "/var/lib/nova/instances" ## Local path on machine
#     type: "nfs"                           ## This can be nfs or nfs4
#     options: "_netdev,auto"               ## Mount options
#     config_overrides: "{}"                ## Override dictionary for unit file
nova_nfs_client: []

# Nova Ceph rbd
# Enble and define nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool to use rbd as nova backend
#nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool: vms
nova_ceph_client: '{{ cinder_ceph_client }}'
# TODO(odyssey4me) - the uuid should be removed, there should be no defaults for secrets
nova_ceph_client_uuid: 517a4663-3927-44bc-9ea7-4a90e1cd4c66

# Enabled upstream if RBD is in use on cinder backends, which requires that
# ceph be deployed on the nova compute hosts to enable volume backed instances.
nova_cinder_rbd_inuse: False

# Used to determine if we need a Ceph client
nova_rbd_inuse: "{{ (nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool is defined) or (nova_cinder_rbd_inuse | bool) }}"

## General Nova configuration
# If ``nova_conductor_workers`` is unset the system will use half the number of available VCPUS to
# compute the number of api workers to use.
# nova_conductor_workers: 16

# If ``nova_scheduler_workers`` is unset the system will use half the number of available VCPUS to
# compute the number of api workers to use.
# nova_scheduler_workers: 16

## Cap the maximun number of threads / workers when a user value is unspecified.
nova_api_threads_max: 16
nova_api_threads: "{{ [[ansible_processor_vcpus|default(2) // 2, 1] | max, nova_api_threads_max] | min }}"

## Policy vars
# Provide a list of access controls to update the default policy.json with. These changes will be merged
# with the access controls in the default policy.json. E.g.
#nova_policy_overrides:
#  "compute:create": ""
#  "compute:create:attach_network": ""

nova_service_in_ldap: false

## libvirtd config options
nova_libvirtd_listen_tls: 0
nova_libvirtd_listen_tcp: 0
nova_libvirtd_auth_tcp: sasl
nova_libvirtd_debug_log_filters: "3:remote 4:event 3:json 3:rpc"

nova_api_metadata_init_overrides: {}
nova_api_os_compute_init_overrides: {}
nova_compute_init_overrides: {}
nova_conductor_init_overrides: {}
nova_novncproxy_init_overrides: {}
nova_scheduler_init_overrides: {}
nova_spicehtml5proxy_init_overrides: {}
nova_serialproxy_init_overrides: {}

## Service Name-Group Mapping
nova_services:
  nova-api-metadata:
    group: nova_api_metadata
    service_name: nova-api-metadata
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_api_metadata_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 5
    wsgi_app: True
    uwsgi_overrides: "{{ nova_api_metadata_uwsgi_ini_overrides }}"
    uwsgi_bind_address: "{{ nova_metadata_bind_address }}"
    uwsgi_port: "{{ nova_metadata_port }}"
    wsgi_name: nova-metadata-wsgi
  nova-api-os-compute:
    group: nova_api_os_compute
    service_name: nova-api-os-compute
    init_config_overrides: "{{ {'Install': {'Alias': 'nova-api.service'}} | combine(nova_api_os_compute_init_overrides) }}"
    start_order: 4
    wsgi_app: True
    uwsgi_overrides: "{{ nova_api_os_compute_uwsgi_ini_overrides }}"
    uwsgi_bind_address: "{{ nova_service_bind_address }}"
    uwsgi_port: "{{ nova_service_port }}"
    wsgi_name: nova-api-wsgi
  nova-compute:
    group: nova_compute
    service_name: nova-compute
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_compute_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 6
    execstarts: "{{ nova_bin }}/nova-compute"
    execreloads: "/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID"
    after_targets:
      - libvirtd.service
      - syslog.target
      - network.target
  nova-conductor:
    group: nova_conductor
    service_name: nova-conductor
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_conductor_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 2
    execstarts: "{{ nova_bin }}/nova-conductor"
    execreloads: "/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID"
  nova-novncproxy:
    group: nova_console
    service_name: nova-novncproxy
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_novncproxy_init_overrides }}"
    condition: "{{ nova_console_type == 'novnc' }}"
    start_order: 5
    execstarts: "{{ nova_bin }}/nova-novncproxy"
  nova-scheduler:
    group: nova_scheduler
    service_name: nova-scheduler
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_scheduler_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 3
    execstarts: "{{ nova_bin }}/nova-scheduler"
    execreloads: "/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID"
  nova-spicehtml5proxy:
    group: nova_console
    service_name: nova-spicehtml5proxy
    init_config_overrides: "{{ {'Install': {'Alias': 'nova-spiceproxy.service'}} | combine(nova_spicehtml5proxy_init_overrides) }}"
    condition: "{{ nova_console_type == 'spice' }}"
    start_order: 5
    execstarts: "{{ nova_bin }}/nova-spicehtml5proxy"
  nova-serialconsole-proxy:
    group: nova_console
    service_name: nova-serialproxy
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_serialproxy_init_overrides }}"
    condition: "{{ nova_console_type == 'serialconsole' }}"
    start_order: 5
    execstarts: "{{ nova_bin }}/nova-serialproxy"

nova_novnc_pip_packages:
  - websockify

nova_compute_ironic_pip_packages:
  - python-ironicclient

# Common pip packages
nova_pip_packages:
  - nova
  - osprofiler
  - PyMySQL
  - pymemcache
  - python-memcached
  - systemd-python

# Specific pip packages provided by the user
nova_user_pip_packages: []

nova_optional_oslomsg_amqp1_pip_packages:
  - oslo.messaging[amqp1]

nova_qemu_user: libvirt-qemu
nova_qemu_group: kvm

# Define the following variable to drop a replacement
# file for /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
#qemu_conf_dict: {}

## Tunable overrides
nova_nova_conf_overrides: {}
nova_rootwrap_conf_overrides: {}
nova_api_paste_ini_overrides: {}
nova_policy_overrides: {}
nova_vendor_data_overrides: {}
nova_api_metadata_uwsgi_ini_overrides: {}
nova_api_os_compute_uwsgi_ini_overrides: {}

# Enabled vGPU Types - dict defining 'type' and 'address' (optional) of vGPU
# an address is only required when supporting more than one physical GPU on the host
# Example 1:
# nova_enabled_vgpu_types:
#   - type: nvidia-35
#
# Example 2:
# nova_enabled_vgpu_types:
#   - type: nvidia-35
#     address: <device address>
#   - type: nvidia-36
#     address: <another device address>
nova_enabled_vgpu_types: {}

# PCI devices passthrough to nova
# For SR-IOV please use:
#   nova_pci_passthrough_whitelist: '{ "physical_network": "<ml2 network name>", "devname": "<physical nic>" }'
#   Example:
#     nova_pci_passthrough_whitelist: '{ "physical_network": "physnet1", "devname": "p1p1" }'
nova_pci_passthrough_whitelist: {}
# PCI alias,
# Example:
# nova_pci_alias:
#  - '{ "name": "card-alias1", "product_id": "XXXX", "vendor_id": "XXXX" }'
#  - '{ "name": "card-alias2", "product_id": "XXXY", "vendor_id": "XXXY" }'
nova_pci_alias: []

Dependencies

This role needs pip >= 7.1 installed on the target host.

Example playbook

---
- name: Installation and setup of Nova
  hosts: nova_all
  user: root
  roles:
    - { role: "os_nova", tags: [ "os-nova" ] }
  vars:
    nova_galera_address: "{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}"
    galera_root_user: root
  vars_prompt:
    - name: "galera_root_password"
      prompt: "What is galera_root_password?"

External Restart Hooks

When the role performs a restart of the service, it will notify an Ansible handler named Manage LB, which is a noop within this role. In the playbook, other roles may be loaded before and after this role which will implement Ansible handler listeners for Manage LB, allowing external roles to manage the load balancer endpoints responsible for sending traffic to the servers being restarted by marking them in maintenance or active mode, draining sessions, etc. For an example implementation, please reference the ansible-haproxy-endpoints role used by the openstack-ansible project.

Tags

This role supports two tags: nova-install and nova-config

The nova-install tag can be used to install and upgrade.

The nova-config tag can be used to manage configuration.

CPU platform compatibility

This role supports multiple CPU architecture types. At least one repo_build node must exist for each CPU type that is in use in the deployment.

Currently supported CPU architectures:

  • x86_64 / amd64

  • ppc64le

At this time, ppc64le is only supported for the Compute node type. It can not be used to manage the OpenStack-Ansible management nodes.

Compute driver compatibility

This role supports multiple nova compute driver types. The following compute drivers are supported:

  • libvirt (default)

  • ironic

The driver type is automatically detected by the OpenStack Ansible Nova role for the following compute driver types:

  • libvirt (kvm / qemu)

Any mix and match of compute node types can be used for those platforms, except for ironic.

The nova_virt_type may be set in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml, for example:

nova_virt_type: ironic

You can set nova_virt_type per host by using host_vars in /etc/openstack_deploy/openstack_user_config.yml. For example:

compute_hosts:
 aio1:
   ip: 172.29.236.100
   host_vars:
     nova_virt_type: ironic

If nova_virt_type is set in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml, all nodes in the deployment are set to that hypervisor type. Setting nova_virt_type in both /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml and /etc/openstack_deploy/openstack_user_config.yml will always result in the value specified in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml being set on all hosts.