Assigning Roles to Nodes Directly in RDO

RDO Manager defines multiple roles that nodes can play in OpenStack deployment. For large-sized installations, RDO features automatic assignment of roles to nodes. This assignment is based on the facts that RDO obtained about each node during the introspection. However, for smaller deployments, you might prefer to assign the roles to the available nodes by hand. It was not straight forward for me to find out about this manual option even when it is described in the TripleO documentation. Let’s review the required configuration steps in this blogpost.

The relationship between roles and nodes is organized via flavors. A flavor is a set of properties that the target node must match in order to be eligible for deployment of a specific role. The manual assignment of a role to a node is a three-step process:

Define a flavor with a property capabilities:profile set to the role name
Add the same profile to the capabilities list of the target node
Tell RDO what flavor to use for a specific role when beginning the deployment

The creation of flavors with the associated capabilities:profile property looks like this:

openstack flavor create --id auto --ram 4096 --disk 40 --vcpus 1 ceph
openstack flavor create --id auto --ram 4096 --disk 40 --vcpus 1 cinder
openstack flavor create --id auto --ram 4096 --disk 40 --vcpus 1 compute
openstack flavor create --id auto --ram 4096 --disk 40 --vcpus 1 controller
openstack flavor create --id auto --ram 4096 --disk 40 --vcpus 1 swift

openstack flavor set --property "cpu_arch"="x86_64" --property "capabilities:boot_option"="local" --property "capabilities:profile"="ceph" ceph
openstack flavor set --property "cpu_arch"="x86_64" --property "capabilities:boot_option"="local" --property "capabilities:profile"="cinder" cinder
openstack flavor set --property "cpu_arch"="x86_64" --property "capabilities:boot_option"="local" --property "capabilities:profile"="compute" compute
openstack flavor set --property "cpu_arch"="x86_64" --property "capabilities:boot_option"="local" --property "capabilities:profile"="controller" controller
openstack flavor set --property "cpu_arch"="x86_64" --property "capabilities:boot_option"="local" --property "capabilities:profile"="swift" swift

Now we need to add the profiles to the capabilities list of the respective nodes:

ironic node-update <node1 UUID here> replace properties/capabilities='profile:ceph,boot_option:local'
ironic node-update <node2 UUID here> replace properties/capabilities='profile:cinder,boot_option:local'
ironic node-update <node3 UUID here> replace properties/capabilities='profile:compute,boot_option:local'
ironic node-update <node4 UUID here> replace properties/capabilities='profile:controller,boot_option:local'
ironic node-update <node5 UUID here> replace properties/capabilities='profile:swift,boot_option:local'

When deploying the OpenStack cloud, we need to tell the RDO manager what flavor to use for each specific role:

openstack overcloud deploy \
--templates /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates \
--ceph-storage-scale 1 \
--block-storage-scale 1 \
--compute-scale 1 \
--control-scale 1 \
--swift-storage-scale 1 \
--ceph-storage-flavor ceph \
--block-storage-flavor cinder \
--compute-flavor compute \
--control-flavor controller \
--swift-storage-flavor swift

And that’s all for today. Hope you’re enjoying the full control over your OpenStack cloud deployment.

Ales Nosek - The Software Practitioner

Practicing to make software perfect.

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