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Disk image builder elements for deploying OpenStack.

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Image building rules for OpenStack images

These elements are used to build disk images for deploying OpenStack via Heat. They are built as part of the TripleO (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO) umbrella project.

Instructions

Checkout this source tree and also the diskimage builder, export an ELEMENTS_PATH to add elements from this tree, and build any disk images you need:

virtualenv . source bin/activate pip install dib-utils pyyaml git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/diskimage-builder.git git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/tripleo-image-elements.git export ELEMENTS_PATH=tripleo-image-elements/elements diskimage-builder/bin/disk-image-create -u base vm bootstrap local-config stackuser heat-cfntools -a i386 -o bootstrap

Common element combinations

Always include heat-cfntools in images that you intend to boot via heat : if that is not done, then the user ssh keys are not reliably pulled down from the metadata server due to interactions with cloud-init.

Architecture

OpenStack images are intended to be deployed and maintained using Nova + Heat.

As such they should strive to be stateless, maintained entirely via automation.

Configuration

In a running OpenStack there are several categories of config.

  • per user - e.g. ssh key registration with nova: we repeat this sort of config every time we add a user.

  • local node - e.g. nova.conf or ovs-vsctl add-br br-ex : settings that apply individually to machines

  • inter-node - e.g. credentials on rabbitmq for a given nova compute node

  • application state - e.g. ‘neutron net-create …’ : settings that apply to the whole cluster not on a per-user / per-tenant basis

We have five places we can do configuration in TripleO:
  • image build time

  • in-instance heat-driven (ORC scripts)

  • from outside via APIs

  • orchestrated by Heat

Our current heuristic for deciding where to do any particular configuration step:

  • per user config should be done from the outside via APIs, even for users like ‘admin’ that we know we’ll have. Note that service accounts are different - they are a form of inter-node configuration.

  • local node configuration should be done via ORC driven by Heat and/or configuration management system metadata.

  • inter-node configuration should be done by working through Heat. For instance, creating a rabbit account for a nova compute node is something that Heat should arrange, though the act of creating is probably done by a script on the rabbit server - triggered by Heat - and applying the config is done on the compute node by the local node script - again triggered by Heat.

  • application state changes should be done from outside via APIs

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