Configuring for OpenStack | Installation and Configuration

Overview
Configuring OpenStack Variables
Configuring OpenShift Enterprise masters for OpenStack

Overview

When deployed on OpenStack, OpenShift Enterprise can be configured to access OpenStack infrastructure, including using OpenStack Cinder volumes as persistent storage for application data.

Configuring OpenStack Variables

To set the required OpenStack variables, create a /etc/cloud.conf file with the following contents on all of your OpenShift Enterprise hosts, both masters and nodes:

[Global]
auth-url = <OS_AUTH_URL>
username = <OS_USERNAME>
password = <password>
domain-id = <OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID>
tenant-id = <OS_TENANT_ID>
region = <OS_REGION_NAME>

[LoadBalancer]
subnet-id = <UUID of the load balancer subnet>

Consult your OpenStack administrators for values of the OS_ variables, which are commonly used in OpenStack configuration.

Configuring OpenShift Enterprise masters for OpenStack

You can set an OpenStack configuration on your OpenShift Enterprise master and node hosts in two different ways:

Using Ansible and the advanced installation tool
Manually, by modifying the master-config.yaml and node-config.yaml files.

Configuring OpenShift Enterprise for OpenStack with Ansible

During advanced installations, OpenStack can be configured using the following parameters, which are configurable in the inventory file:

openshift_cloudprovider_kind
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_auth_url
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_username
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_password
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_domain_id
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_domain_name
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_tenant_id
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_tenant_name
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_region
openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_lb_subnet_id

Example 1. Example OpenStack Configuration with Ansible

# Cloud Provider Configuration
#
# Note: You may make use of environment variables rather than store
# sensitive configuration within the ansible inventory.
# For example:
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_username="{{ lookup('env','USERNAME') }}"
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_password="{{ lookup('env','PASSWORD') }}"
#
# Openstack
#openshift_cloudprovider_kind=openstack
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_auth_url=http://openstack.example.com:35357/v2.0/
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_username=username
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_password=password
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_domain_id=domain_id
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_domain_name=domain_name
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_tenant_id=tenant_id
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_tenant_name=tenant_name
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_region=region
#openshift_cloudprovider_openstack_lb_subnet_id=subnet_id

Manually Configuring OpenShift Enterprise masters for OpenStack

Edit or create the master configuration file on all masters (/etc/origin/master/master-config.yaml by default) and update the contents of the apiServerArguments and controllerArguments sections:

kubernetesmasterConfig:
  ...
  apiServerArguments:
    cloud-provider:
      - "openstack"
    cloud-config:
      - "/etc/cloud.conf"
  controllerArguments:
    cloud-provider:
      - "openstack"
    cloud-config:
      - "/etc/cloud.conf"

When triggering a containerized installation, only the directories of /etc/origin and /var/lib/origin are mounted to the master and node container. Therefore, cloud.conf should be in /etc/origin/ instead of /etc/.

Manually Configuring OpenShift Enterprise Nodes for OpenStack

Edit or create the node configuration file on all nodes (/etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml by default) and update the contents of the kubeletArguments and nodeName sections:

nodeName:
  <instance_name> (1)

kubeletArguments:
  cloud-provider:
    - "openstack"
  cloud-config:
    - "/etc/cloud.conf"

1	Name of the OpenStack instance where the node runs (i.e., name of the virtual machine)