OpenStack VIM Installation¶

Prepare kolla-ansible¶

About how to prepare Docker and kolla-ansible environment, please refer to https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/user/quickstart.html

Set up local kolla-ansible docker registry¶

Kolla-ansible is publishing the packaged Docker images at http://tarballs.openstack.org/kolla/images/. This document will use centos-source-registry-pike.tar.gz. So Download it:

# wget http://tarballs.openstack.org/kolla/images/centos-source-registry-pike.tar.gz

And unpack it:

# tar xzvf centos-source-registry-pike.tar.gz -C /opt/registry/

And start Docker registry container:

# docker run -d -v /opt/registry:/var/lib/registry -p 4000:5000 --restart=always --name registry registry:2

And set Docker to access local registry via insecure channel:

# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service | grep insecure
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd --insecure-registry 10.1.0.6:4000
# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl restart docker

And verify the local registry contains the needed images:

# curl -k localhost:4000/v2/_catalog
# curl -k localhost:4000/v2/lokolla/centos-source-fluentd/tags/list
{"name":"lokolla/centos-source-fluentd","tags":["5.0.1"]}

Install OpenStack¶

1. Edit kolla ansible’s configuration file /etc/kolla/globals.yml:

---
kolla_install_type: "source"
openstack_release: "5.0.1"
kolla_internal_vip_address: "10.1.0.5"
docker_registry: "10.1.0.6:4000"
docker_namespace: "lokolla"
api_interface: "eth0"
tunnel_interface: "eth1"
neutron_external_interface: "eth2"
enable_glance: "yes"
enable_haproxy: "yes"
enable_keystone: "yes"
enable_mariadb: "yes"
enable_memcached: "yes"
enable_neutron: "yes"
enable_nova: "yes"
enable_rabbitmq: "yes"
enable_aodh: "yes"
enable_ceilometer: "yes"
enable_gnocchi: "yes"
enable_heat: "yes"
enable_horizon: "yes"
enable_neutron_sfc: "yes"

2. Run kolla-genpwd to generate system passwords:

$ sudo cp etc/kolla/passwords.yml /etc/kolla/passwords.yml
$ sudo kolla-genpwd

With this command, /etc/kolla/passwords.yml will be populated with generated passwords.

3. Editor inventory:

First copy the sample multinode inventory file from kolla-ansible:

# cp inventory/multinode ~/

Then edit it to contain all of the OpenStack nodes.

[all_vim_nodes]
10.1.0.8
10.1.0.7
10.1.0.6

[control:children]
all_vim_nodes

[network:children]
all_vim_nodes

[compute:children]
all_vim_nodes

[monitoring:children]
all_vim_nodes

[storage:children]
#if the tacker needs volume feature, put related nodes here

4. Run kolla ansible deploy to install OpenStack system:

# kolla-ansible deploy -i ~/multinode

5. Run kolla ansible post-deploy to generate tacker access environment file:

# kolla-ansible post-deploy

With this command, the “admin-openrc.sh” will be generated at /etc/kolla/admin-openrc.sh.

Prepare OpenStack¶

After installation, OpenStack administrator needs to:

• Initialized the flavors that the platform will support. Most Tacker sample TOSCA templates will ask Tacker to create Flavor on demand. If not, the specified flavor in templates must exist in OpenStack.
• Upload related images. Tacker repo’s sample TOSCA templates are referring to cirros image named ‘cirros-0.4.0-x86_64-disk’, so this image should uploaded into OpenStack before Tacker uses it.

In additions, following steps are needed:

1. Create projects and users which can be used by Tacker:

This is a simple task for any OpenStack administrator, but one thing to pay attention to is that the user must have ‘admin’ and ‘heat_stack_owner’ roles on the user’s project.

2. Create Neutron networks:

Most sample TOSCA templates assume there are three Neutron networks in target OpenStack that the VIM user can use:

• net_mgmt, which is a network Tacker system can access to. Some Tacker features, such as monitor policies, need Tacker to access started VNF virtual machines. For Tacker to access VNF via net_mgmt, net_mgmt can be a provider network.
• net0 and net1, which are two business networks which VNFs will use. How to connected them depends on the VNFs’ business.

So create these three networks accordingly. For commands to create Neutron networks, please refer to https://docs.openstack.org/python-openstackclient/latest/cli/command-objects/network.html