This section describes how to install and configure the Bare Metal service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7.
The Bare Metal service is a collection of components that provides support to manage and provision physical machines. You can configure these components to run on separate nodes or the same node. In this guide, the components run on one node, typically the Compute Service’s compute node.
It assumes that the Identity, Image, Compute, and Networking services have already been set up.
The Bare Metal service stores information in a database. This guide uses the MySQL database that is used by other OpenStack services.
In MySQL, create an ironic
database that is accessible by the
ironic
user. Replace IRONIC_DBPASSWORD
with a suitable password:
# mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE ironic CHARACTER SET utf8;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ironic.* TO 'ironic'@'localhost' \
IDENTIFIED BY 'IRONIC_DBPASSWORD';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ironic.* TO 'ironic'@'%' \
IDENTIFIED BY 'IRONIC_DBPASSWORD';
Install from packages
Using dnf
# dnf install openstack-ironic-api openstack-ironic-conductor python-ironicclient
Using yum
# yum install openstack-ironic-api openstack-ironic-conductor python-ironicclient
Enable services
# systemctl enable openstack-ironic-api openstack-ironic-conductor
# systemctl start openstack-ironic-api openstack-ironic-conductor
The Bare Metal service is configured via its configuration file. This file
is typically located at /etc/ironic/ironic.conf
.
Although some configuration options are mentioned here, it is recommended that you review all the available options so that the Bare Metal service is configured for your needs.
It is possible to set up an ironic-api and an ironic-conductor services on the same host or different hosts. Users also can add new ironic-conductor hosts to deal with an increasing number of bare metal nodes. But the additional ironic-conductor services should be at the same version as that of existing ironic-conductor services.
The Bare Metal service stores information in a database. This guide uses the MySQL database that is used by other OpenStack services.
Configure the location of the database via the connection
option. In the
following, replace IRONIC_DBPASSWORD
with the password of your
ironic
user, and replace DB_IP
with the IP address where the DB
server is located:
[database]
# The SQLAlchemy connection string used to connect to the
# database (string value)
connection=mysql+pymysql://ironic:IRONIC_DBPASSWORD@DB_IP/ironic?charset=utf8
Configure the ironic-api service to use the RabbitMQ message broker by
setting the following option. Replace RPC_*
with appropriate
address details and credentials of RabbitMQ server:
[DEFAULT]
# A URL representing the messaging driver to use and its full
# configuration. (string value)
transport_url = rabbit://RPC_USER:RPC_PASSWORD@RPC_HOST:RPC_PORT/
Configure the ironic-api service to use these credentials with the Identity
service. Replace PUBLIC_IDENTITY_IP
with the public IP of the Identity
server, PRIVATE_IDENTITY_IP
with the private IP of the Identity server
and replace IRONIC_PASSWORD
with the password you chose for the
ironic
user in the Identity service:
[DEFAULT]
# Authentication strategy used by ironic-api: one of
# "keystone" or "noauth". "noauth" should not be used in a
# production environment because all authentication will be
# disabled. (string value)
auth_strategy=keystone
[keystone_authtoken]
# Authentication type to load (string value)
auth_type=password
# Complete public Identity API endpoint (string value)
auth_uri=http://PUBLIC_IDENTITY_IP:5000
# Complete admin Identity API endpoint. (string value)
auth_url=http://PRIVATE_IDENTITY_IP:35357
# Service username. (string value)
username=ironic
# Service account password. (string value)
password=IRONIC_PASSWORD
# Service tenant name. (string value)
project_name=service
# Domain name containing project (string value)
project_domain_name=Default
# User's domain name (string value)
user_domain_name=Default
Create the Bare Metal service database tables:
$ ironic-dbsync --config-file /etc/ironic/ironic.conf create_schema
Restart the ironic-api service:
Fedora/RHEL7/CentOS7:
sudo systemctl restart openstack-ironic-api
Ubuntu:
sudo service ironic-api restart
Bare Metal service comes with an example file for configuring the
ironic-api
service to run behind Apache with mod_wsgi.
Install the apache service:
Fedora 21/RHEL7/CentOS7:
sudo yum install httpd
Fedora 22 (or higher):
sudo dnf install httpd
Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install apache2
Copy the etc/apache2/ironic
file under the apache sites:
Fedora/RHEL7/CentOS7:
sudo cp etc/apache2/ironic /etc/httpd/conf.d/ironic.conf
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo cp etc/apache2/ironic /etc/apache2/sites-available/ironic.conf
Edit the recently copied <apache-configuration-dir>/ironic.conf
:
WSGIDaemonProcess
, APACHE_RUN_USER
and
APACHE_RUN_GROUP
directives to set the user and group values to
an appropriate user on your server.WSGIScriptAlias
directive to point to the
ironic/api/app.wsgi
script.Directory
directive to set the path to the Ironic API code.ErrorLog
and CustomLog
to redirect the logs
to the right directory (on Red Hat systems this is usually under
/var/log/httpd).Enable the apache ironic
in site and reload:
Fedora/RHEL7/CentOS7:
sudo systemctl reload httpd
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo a2ensite ironic
sudo service apache2 reload
Note
The file ironic/api/app.wsgi
is installed with the rest of the Bare Metal
service application code, and should not need to be modified.
Replace HOST_IP
with IP of the conductor host, and replace DRIVERS
with a comma-separated list of drivers you chose for the conductor service
as follows:
[DEFAULT]
# IP address of this host. If unset, will determine the IP
# programmatically. If unable to do so, will use "127.0.0.1".
# (string value)
my_ip=HOST_IP
# Specify the list of drivers to load during service
# initialization. Missing drivers, or drivers which fail to
# initialize, will prevent the conductor service from
# starting. The option default is a recommended set of
# production-oriented drivers. A complete list of drivers
# present on your system may be found by enumerating the
# "ironic.drivers" entrypoint. An example may be found in the
# developer documentation online. (list value)
enabled_drivers=DRIVERS
Note
If a conductor host has multiple IPs, my_ip
should
be set to the IP which is on the same network as the bare metal nodes.
Configure the ironic-api service URL. Replace IRONIC_API_IP
with IP of
ironic-api service as follows:
[conductor]
# URL of Ironic API service. If not set ironic can get the
# current value from the keystone service catalog. (string
# value)
api_url=http://IRONIC_API_IP:6385
Configure the location of the database. Ironic-conductor should use the same
configuration as ironic-api. Replace IRONIC_DBPASSWORD
with the password
of your ironic
user, and replace DB_IP with the IP address where the DB
server is located:
[database]
# The SQLAlchemy connection string to use to connect to the
# database. (string value)
connection=mysql+pymysql://ironic:IRONIC_DBPASSWORD@DB_IP/ironic?charset=utf8
Configure the ironic-conductor service to use the RabbitMQ message broker by
setting the following option. Ironic-conductor should use the same
configuration as ironic-api. Replace RPC_*
with appropriate
address details and credentials of RabbitMQ server:
[DEFAULT]
# A URL representing the messaging driver to use and its full
# configuration. (string value)
transport_url = rabbit://RPC_USER:RPC_PASSWORD@RPC_HOST:RPC_PORT/
Configure the ironic-conductor service so that it can communicate with the
Image service. Replace GLANCE_IP
with the hostname or IP address of
the Image service:
[glance]
# Default glance hostname or IP address. (string value)
glance_host=GLANCE_IP
Note
Swift backend for the Image service should be installed and configured
for agent_*
drivers. Starting with Mitaka the Bare Metal service also
supports Ceph Object Gateway (RADOS Gateway) as the Image service’s backend
(radosgw support).
Set the URL (replace NEUTRON_IP
) for connecting to the Networking
service, to be the Networking service endpoint:
[neutron]
# URL for connecting to neutron. (string value)
url=http://NEUTRON_IP:9696
To configure the network for ironic-conductor service to perform node cleaning, see CleaningNetworkSetup from the Ironic deploy guide.
Configure credentials for accessing other OpenStack services.
In order to communicate with other OpenStack services, the Bare Metal service needs to use service users to authenticate to the OpenStack Identity service when making requests to other services. These users’ credentials have to be configured in each configuration file section related to the corresponding service:
[neutron]
- to access the OpenStack Networking service[glance]
- to access the OpenStack Image service[swift]
- to access the OpenStack Object Storage service[inspector]
- to access the OpenStack Bare Metal Introspection
service[service_catalog]
- a special section holding credentials
the Bare Metal service will use to discover its own API URL endpoint
as registered in the OpenStack Identity service catalog.For simplicity, you can use the same service user for all services.
For backward compatibility, this should be the same user configured
in the [keystone_authtoken]
section for the ironic-api service
(see “Configuring ironic-api service”).
However, this is not necessary, and you can create and configure separate
service users for each service.
Under the hood, Bare Metal service uses keystoneauth
library
together with Authentication plugin
and Session
concepts
provided by it to instantiate service clients.
Please refer to Keystoneauth documentation for supported plugins,
their available options as well as Session-related options
for authentication and connection respectively.
In the example below, authentication information for user to access the OpenStack Networking service is configured to use:
password
authentication plugin that will discover
appropriate version of Identity service API based on other
provided optionsIDENTITY_IP
with the IP of the Identity server,
and replace IRONIC_PASSWORD
with the password you chose for the
ironic
user in the Identity service[neutron]
# Authentication type to load (string value)
auth_type = password
# Authentication URL (string value)
auth_url=https://IDENTITY_IP:5000/
# Username (string value)
username=ironic
# User's password (string value)
password=IRONIC_PASSWORD
# Project name to scope to (string value)
project_name=service
# Domain ID containing project (string value)
project_domain_id=default
# User's domain id (string value)
user_domain_id=default
# PEM encoded Certificate Authority to use when verifying
# HTTPs connections. (string value)
cafile=/opt/stack/data/ca-bundle.pem
Make sure that qemu-img
and iscsiadm
(in the case of using iscsi-deploy driver)
binaries are installed and prepare the host system as described at
Setup the drivers for the Bare Metal service
Restart the ironic-conductor service:
Fedora/RHEL7/CentOS7:
sudo systemctl restart openstack-ironic-conductor
Ubuntu:
sudo service ironic-conductor restart
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