Manual Installation¶
This document describes how to install and run Tacker manually.
Pre-requisites¶
1). Ensure that OpenStack components Keystone, Mistral, Barbican and Horizon are installed. Refer the list below for installation of these OpenStack projects on different Operating Systems.
- https://docs.openstack.org/keystone/latest/install/index.html
- https://docs.openstack.org/mistral/latest/install/index.html
- https://docs.openstack.org/barbican/latest/install/install.html
- https://docs.openstack.org/horizon/latest/install/index.html
2). one admin-openrc.sh file is generated. one sample admin-openrc.sh file is like the below:
export OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME=Default
export OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME=Default
export OS_PROJECT_NAME=admin
export OS_TENANT_NAME=admin
export OS_USERNAME=admin
export OS_PASSWORD=KTskN5eUMTpeHLKorRcZBBbH0AM96wdvgQhwENxY
export OS_AUTH_URL=http://localhost:35357/v3
export OS_INTERFACE=internal
export OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION=3
export OS_REGION_NAME=RegionOne
Installing Tacker server¶
Note
The paths we are using for configuration files in these steps are with reference to Ubuntu Operating System. The paths may vary for other Operating Systems.
The branch_name which is used in commands, specify the branch_name as “stable/<branch>” for any stable branch installation. For eg: stable/ocata, stable/newton. If unspecified the default will be “master” branch.
1). Create MySQL database and user.
mysql -uroot -p
CREATE DATABASE tacker;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tacker.* TO 'tacker'@'localhost' \
IDENTIFIED BY '<TACKERDB_PASSWORD>';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tacker.* TO 'tacker'@'%' \
IDENTIFIED BY '<TACKERDB_PASSWORD>';
exit;
Note
Replace TACKERDB_PASSWORD with your password.
2). Create users, roles and endpoints:
a). Source the admin credentials to gain access to admin-only CLI commands:
. admin-openrc.sh
b). Create tacker user with admin privileges.
Note
Project_name can be “service” or “services” depending on your OpenStack distribution.
openstack user create --domain default --password <PASSWORD> tacker
openstack role add --project service --user tacker admin
c). Create tacker service.
openstack service create --name tacker \
--description "Tacker Project" nfv-orchestration
d). Provide an endpoint to tacker service.
If you are using keystone v3 then,
openstack endpoint create --region RegionOne nfv-orchestration \
public http://<TACKER_NODE_IP>:9890/
openstack endpoint create --region RegionOne nfv-orchestration \
internal http://<TACKER_NODE_IP>:9890/
openstack endpoint create --region RegionOne nfv-orchestration \
admin http://<TACKER_NODE_IP>:9890/
If you are using keystone v2 then,
openstack endpoint create --region RegionOne \
--publicurl 'http://<TACKER_NODE_IP>:9890/' \
--adminurl 'http://<TACKER_NODE_IP>:9890/' \
--internalurl 'http://<TACKER_NODE_IP>:9890/' <SERVICE-ID>
3). Clone tacker repository.
cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/openstack/tacker -b <branch_name>
4). Install all requirements.
cd tacker
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
5). Install tacker.
sudo python setup.py install
6). Create ‘tacker’ directory in ‘/var/log’.
sudo mkdir /var/log/tacker
- 7). Generate the tacker.conf.sample using tools/generate_config_file_sample.sh
- or ‘tox -e config-gen’ command. Rename the “tacker.conf.sample” file at “etc/tacker/” to tacker.conf. Then edit it to ensure the below entries:
Note
Ignore any warnings generated while using the “generate_config_file_sample.sh”.
Note
project_name can be “service” or “services” depending on your OpenStack distribution in the keystone_authtoken section.
[DEFAULT]
auth_strategy = keystone
policy_file = /usr/local/etc/tacker/policy.json
debug = True
use_syslog = False
bind_host = <TACKER_NODE_IP>
bind_port = 9890
service_plugins = nfvo,vnfm
state_path = /var/lib/tacker
...
[nfvo_vim]
vim_drivers = openstack
[keystone_authtoken]
memcached_servers = 11211
region_name = RegionOne
auth_type = password
project_domain_name = <DOMAIN_NAME>
user_domain_name = <DOMAIN_NAME>
username = <TACKER_USER_NAME>
project_name = service
password = <TACKER_SERVICE_USER_PASSWORD>
auth_url = http://<KEYSTONE_IP>:35357
auth_uri = http://<KEYSTONE_IP>:5000
...
[agent]
root_helper = sudo /usr/local/bin/tacker-rootwrap /usr/local/etc/tacker/rootwrap.conf
...
[database]
connection = mysql+pymysql://tacker:<TACKERDB_PASSWORD>@<MYSQL_IP>:3306/tacker?charset=utf8
...
[tacker]
monitor_driver = ping,http_ping
8). Copy the tacker.conf file to “/usr/local/etc/tacker/” directory
sudo su
cp etc/tacker/tacker.conf /usr/local/etc/tacker/
9). Populate Tacker database:
/usr/local/bin/tacker-db-manage --config-file /usr/local/etc/tacker/tacker.conf upgrade head
Install Tacker client¶
1). Clone tacker-client repository.
cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/openstack/python-tackerclient -b <branch_name>
2). Install tacker-client.
cd python-tackerclient
sudo python setup.py install
Install Tacker horizon¶
1). Clone tacker-horizon repository.
cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/openstack/tacker-horizon -b <branch_name>
2). Install horizon module.
cd tacker-horizon
sudo python setup.py install
3). Enable tacker horizon in dashboard.
sudo cp tacker_horizon/enabled/* \
/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/enabled/
4). Restart Apache server.
sudo service apache2 restart
Starting Tacker server¶
1).Open a new console and launch tacker-server. A separate terminal is required because the console will be locked by a running process.
sudo python /usr/local/bin/tacker-server \
--config-file /usr/local/etc/tacker/tacker.conf \
--log-file /var/log/tacker/tacker.log
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