Install Openstack RDO

Install RedHat Deployment of OpenStack using Packstack.

Packstack is a wrapper over a collection of Puppet manifests that install a specific release of OpenStack

Prerequisite’s

A virtual Machine with CentOS 7 Minimal with the following configurations:

at least one NAT network
at least one Host-Only network
8GB+ RAM
50GB+ disk space
enable nested paging
enable VT-x/AMD-v

You can follow this article to prepare it.

To enable support for vitalization (nested paging and VT-x/AMD-v) you can go to: Settings -> System -> Acceleration Enable Virtualization Support VirtualBox

Conventions

When you have successfully booted the VM you should have at least two network interfaces:

enp0s3 corresponding with the NAT network
enp0s8 corresponding with the Host-Only network

We will use the NAT network for internet access to our VM and also internet access for OpenStack networking. The Host-Only network will be used to connect to the VM.

Furthermore, I’ll assume the following conventions:

enp0s3 has the CIDR 10.0.2.0/24 and the DHCP assigned IP was 10.0.2.25
enp0s8 has the CIRD 192.168.99.0/24 and the DHCP assigned IP is 192.168.99.25

Install Packstack and prepare the system

This process follows the steps form the (RDO website)6.

Setup Networking

We need to disable the Network Manager from CentOS and configure a static IP for both interfaces

Disable Network Manager

Run the following commands

~ $ sudo systemctl disable firewalld
~ $ sudo systemctl stop firewalld
~ $ sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager
~ $ sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager
~ $ sudo systemctl enable network
~ $ sudo systemctl start network

Setup static IP

Because we disabled the Network Manager we can’t use (nmcli)7 to configure network interfaces. We will have to rely on the classic network scrips found in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

You can use vi or nano to edit the configurations.

For the NAT network the configuration (found at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3) should look like this:

TYPE=Ethernet
PROXY_METHOD=none
BROWSER_ONLY=no
BOOTPROTO=static
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE=stable-privacy
NAME=enp0s3
UUID=<uuid>
DEVICE=enp0s3
ONBOOT=yes

IPADDR=10.0.2.25
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=10.0.2.2
DNS1=8.8.8.8
DNS2=8.8.4.4

For a better understanding I’ll explain the required changes:

BOOTPROTO=static this was changed from DHCP, it means we want to set up a static IP not to ask a DHCP service for one;

ONBOOT=yes this device will be activated at boot time;

IPADDR=10.0.2.25 what IP address we want to use. Notice this is in the same range we assumed in the Convention section.

NETMASK=255.255.255.0 the netmask for our network. Notice this is in the same /24 we assumed in the Convention section.

GATEWAY=10.0.2.2 what gateway to use in our network, .2 is the default in VirtualBox.

We configure the DNS to use the ones provided by google.

More information about the network scripts can be found on the centos website.

For the Host-Only network the configuration (found at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s8) should look like this:

TYPE=Ethernet
PROXY_METHOD=none
BROWSER_ONLY=no
BOOTPROTO=static
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE=stable-privacy
NAME=enp0s9
UUID=<uuid>
DEVICE=enp0s9
PREFIX=24

ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=192.168.99.25
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.99.2

The same parameters as the NAT network were configured. We only omitted the DNS, this network has no Internet Connectivity and DNS settings are not required.

To find more about networking in VirtualBox you can read this article.

Now you need to apply the configurations to both interfaces:

~ $ sudo ifdown enp0s3
~ $ sudo ifdown enp0s8
~ $ sudo ifup enp0s3
~ $ sudo ifup enp0s8

Now you should be able to connect to the instance

Setup SSH

You need to install the SSH server

~ $ sudo yum install -y vim openssh-server
~ $ sudo systemctl start sshd

Now you should be able to connect with ssh to that instance.

From the Host machine (your laptop) try to connect with ssh to that instance:

~ $ ssh [email protected]

This ssh connection is more convenient to work.

Install Packstack

Install the OpenStack realizes you want and the packstack utility

~ $ sudo yum install -y centos-release-openstack-pike
~ $ sudo yum update -y
~ $ sudo yum install -y openstack-packstack

You can use any OpenStack realizes, I tested this with Newton(that is deprecated) and Pike.

Install Openstack

Simple All In One deployment

Now we provision the OpenStack cluster using Packstack on this instance with default services and configurations.

~ $ packstack --allinone --ntp-servers=pool.ntp.org

Using an answer file

You can generate an answer file with the following command:

~ $ packstack --gen-answer-file=~/answers-file.txt

If we look at this file we can see all the configuration used by the Packstack utility. Some configuration that might be helpful for a simple deployment might be:

CONFIG_SWIFT_INSTALL=n
CONFIG_CEILOMETER_INSTALL=n
CONFIG_AODH_INSTALL=n
CONFIG_GNOCCHI_INSTALL=n
CONFIG_HEAT_INSTALL=y
CONFIG_NTP_SERVERS=pool.ntp.org
CONFIG_NAGIOS_INSTALL=n
CONFIG_DEBUG_MODE=y

Run the utility with this settings

~ $ packstack --answer-file==~/answers-file.txt

Access Horizon

To access the OpenStack deployment you first need to allow access to httpd from the private ip.

Edit the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/15-horizon_vhost.conf and replace all occurrence’s of ServerAlias with just one ServerAlias *. It should look like this (this is just the snipper)

...

  ## Server aliases
  ServerAlias *
  WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
  WSGIDaemonProcess apache group=apache processes=3 threads=10 user=apache
...

You can now access the dashboard using the private ip (in our example 192.168.99.25). The credential can be found in one of the files keystonerc_admin or keystonerc_admin.

Troubleshooting

When the packer utility finishes, it will give you information about the status of the deployment and the location of the logs. It might look something like this:

ERROR : Error appeared during Puppet run: 10.0.2.30_controller.pp
Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/rpm -e mariadb-server-10.1.20-1.el7.x86_64' returned 1: error: Failed dependencies:
You will find full trace in log /var/tmp/packstack/20180422-164044-c2KzyF/manifests/10.0.2.30_controller.pp.log

You can usually fix the problem by installing/removing some package that has a problem or change some configuration in your answer file. After you fixed the problem you can run the packstack command with the --answer-file parameter to install Openstack.

You can also run packstack in debug mode with the flag --debug.

You can list all the Openstack services with the following command:

~ $ systemctl list-units openstack-*

April 21, 2018