quickstart.rst

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===========
Quick Start
===========

This guide provides step by step instructions to deploy OpenStack using Kolla
on bare metal servers or virtual machines.

Recommended reading
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's beneficial to learn basics of both `Ansible <https://docs.ansible.com>`__
and `Docker <https://docs.docker.com>`__ before running Kolla-Ansible.

Host machine requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The host machine must satisfy the following minimum requirements:

- 2 network interfaces
- 8GB main memory
- 40GB disk space

.. note::

    Root access to the deployment host machine is required.

Install dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Make sure the ``pip`` package manager is installed and upgraded to the latest
before proceeding.

For CentOS, run:

::

    yum install epel-release
    yum install python-pip
    pip install -U pip

For Ubuntu, run:

::

    apt-get update
    apt-get install python-pip
    pip install -U pip

To build the code with ``pip`` package manager, install the following
dependencies:

For CentOS, run:

::

    yum install python-devel libffi-devel gcc openssl-devel libselinux-python

For Ubuntu, run:

::

    apt-get install python-dev libffi-dev gcc libssl-dev python-selinux

Kolla deploys OpenStack using `Ansible <http://www.ansible.com>`__. Install
Ansible from distribution packaging if the distro packaging has recommended
version available.

Some implemented distro versions of Ansible are too old to use distro
packaging. Currently, CentOS and RHEL package Ansible >2.0 which is suitable
for use with Kolla. Note that you will need to enable access to the EPEL
repository to install via yum -- to do so, take a look at Fedora's EPEL `docs
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`__ and `FAQ
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ>`__.

On CentOS or RHEL systems, this can be done using:

::

    yum install ansible

Many DEB based systems do not meet Kolla's Ansible version requirements. It is
recommended to use pip to install Ansible >2.0. Finally Ansible >2.0 may be
installed using:

::

    pip install -U ansible

.. note::

   It is recommended to use virtualenv to install non-system packages.

If DEB based systems include a version of Ansible that meets Kolla's version
requirements it can be installed by:

::

    apt-get install ansible

It's beneficial to add the following options to ansible
configuration file ``/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg``:

::

    [defaults]
    host_key_checking=False
    pipelining=True
    forks=100

Install Kolla
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Install Kolla for deployment or evaluation
------------------------------------------

Install kolla-ansible and its dependencies using ``pip``.

::

    pip install kolla-ansible

Copy ``globals.yml`` and ``passwords.yml`` to ``/etc/kolla`` directory.

For CentOS, run:

::

    cp -r /usr/share/kolla-ansible/etc_examples/kolla /etc/kolla/

For Ubuntu, run:

::

    cp -r /usr/local/share/kolla-ansible/etc_examples/kolla /etc/kolla/

Copy the ``all-in-one`` and ``multinode`` inventory files to
the current directory.

For CentOS, run:

::

   cp /usr/share/kolla-ansible/ansible/inventory/* .

For Ubuntu, run:

::

   cp /usr/local/share/kolla-ansible/ansible/inventory/* .

Install Kolla for development
-----------------------------

Clone the Kolla and Kolla-Ansible repositories from git.

::

    git clone https://github.com/openstack/kolla
    git clone https://github.com/openstack/kolla-ansible

Kolla-ansible holds the configuration files (``globals.yml`` and
``passwords.yml``) in ``etc/kolla``. Copy the configuration
files to ``/etc/kolla`` directory.

::

    cp -r kolla-ansible/etc/kolla /etc/kolla/

Kolla-ansible holds the inventory files (``all-in-one`` and ``multinode``)
in ``ansible/inventory``. Copy the inventory files to the current
directory.

::

    cp kolla-ansible/ansible/inventory/* .


Prepare initial configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Inventory
---------

Next step is to prepare our inventory file. Inventory is an ansible file where
we specify node roles and access credentials.

Kolla-Ansible comes with ``all-in-one`` and ``multinode`` example inventory
files. Difference between them is that the former is ready for deploying
single node OpenStack on localhost. If you need to use separate host or more
than one node, edit ``multinode`` inventory:

Edit the first section of ``multinode`` with connection details of your environment,
for example:

::

    [control]
    10.0.0.[10:12] ansible_user=ubuntu ansible_password=foobar ansible_become=true
    # Ansible supports syntax like [10:12] - that means 10, 11 and 12.
    # Become clausule means "use sudo".

    [network:children]
    control
    # when you specify group_name:children, it will use contents of group specified.

    [compute]
    10.0.0.[13:14] ansible_user=ubuntu ansible_password=foobar ansible_become=true

    [monitoring]
    10.0.0.10
    # This group is for monitoring node.
    # Fill it with one of the controllers' IP address or some others.

    [storage:children]
    compute

    [deployment]
    localhost       ansible_connection=local become=true
    # use localhost and sudo

To learn more about inventory files, check
`Ansible documentation <http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_inventory.html>`_.

To confirm that our inventory is correct, run:

::

    ansible -m ping all

.. note::

    Ubuntu might not come with python pre-installed. That will cause
    errors in ping module. To quickly install python with ansible you
    can run ``ansible -m raw -a "apt-get -y install python-dev all"``

Kolla passwords
---------------

Passwords used in our deployment are stored in ``/etc/kolla/passwords.yml``
file. All passwords are blank in this file and have to be filled either
manually or by running random password generator:

For deployment or evaluation, run:

::

    kolla-genpwd

For development, run:

::

    cd kolla-ansible/tools
    ./generate_passwords.py

Kolla globals.yml
-----------------

``globals.yml`` is the main configuration file for Kolla-Ansible.
There are a few options that are required to deploy Kolla-Ansible:

* Image options

  User has to specify images that are going to be used for our deployment.
  In this guide `DockerHub <https://hub.docker.com/u/kolla/>`__ provided
  pre-built images are going to be used. To learn more about building
  mechanism, please refer `image building documentation
  <https://docs.openstack.org/kolla/latest/admin/image-building.html>`_.

  Kolla provides choice of several Linux distributions in containers:

  - Centos
  - Ubuntu
  - Oraclelinux
  - Debian
  - RHEL

  For newcomers, we recommend to use CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16.04.

  ::

      kolla_base_distro: "centos"

  Next "type" of installation needs to be configured.
  Choices are:

  binary
   using repositories like apt or yum

  source
   using raw source archives, git repositories or local source directory

  .. note::

     This only affects OpenStack services. Infrastructure services like Ceph are
     always "binary".

  .. note::

     Source builds are proven to be slightly more reliable than binary.

  ::

      kolla_install_type: "source"

  To use DockerHub images, the default image tag has to be overriden. Images are
  tagged with release names. For example to use stable Pike images set

  ::

      openstack_release: "pike"

  It's important to use same version of images as kolla-ansible. That
  means if pip was used to install kolla-ansible, that means it's latest stable
  version so ``openstack release`` should be set to pike. If git was used with
  master branch, DockerHub also provides daily builds of master branch (which is
  tagged as ``master``):

  ::

      openstack_release: "master"

* Networking

  Kolla-Ansible requires a few networking options to be set.
  We need to set network interfaces used by OpenStack.

  First interface to set is "network_interface". This is the default interface
  for multiple management-type networks.

  ::

      network_interface: "eth0"

  Second interface required is dedicated for Neutron external (or public) networks,
  can be vlan or flat, depends on how the networks are created. This interface
  should be active without IP address. If not, instances won't be able to access
  to the external networks.

  ::

      neutron_external_interface: "eth1"

  To learn more about network configuration, refer `Network overview
  <https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/admin/production-architecture-guide.html#network-configuration>`_.

  Next we need to provide floating IP for management traffic. This IP will be
  managed by keepalived to provide high availability, and should be set to be
  *not used* address in management network that is connected to our
  ``network_interface``.

  ::

      kolla_internal_vip_address: "10.1.0.250"

* Enable additional services

  By default Kolla-Ansible provides a bare compute kit, however it does provide
  support for a vast selection of additional services. To enable them, set
  ``enable_*`` to "yes". For example, to enable Block Storage service:

  ::

      enable_cinder: "yes"

  Kolla now supports many OpenStack services, there is
  `a list of available services
  <https://github.com/openstack/kolla-ansible/blob/master/README.rst#openstack-services>`_.
  For more information about service configuration, Please refer to the
  `Services Reference Guide
  <https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/reference/index.html>`_.

Deployment
~~~~~~~~~~

After configuration is set, we can proceed to the deployment phase. First we
need to setup basic host-level dependencies, like docker.

Kolla-Ansible provides a playbook that will install all required services in
the correct versions.

* For deployment or evaluation, run:

  #. Bootstrap servers with kolla deploy dependencies:

     ::

         kolla-ansible -i ./multinode bootstrap-servers

  #. Do pre-deployment checks for hosts:

     ::

         kolla-ansible -i ./multinode prechecks

  #. Finally proceed to actual OpenStack deployment:

     ::

         kolla-ansible -i ./multinode deploy

* For development, run:

  #. Bootstrap servers with kolla deploy dependencies:

     ::

         cd kolla-ansible/tools
         ./kolla-ansible -i ./multinode bootstrap-servers

  #. Do pre-deployment checks for hosts:

     ::

         ./kolla-ansible -i ./multinode prechecks

  #. Finally proceed to actual OpenStack deployment:

     ::

         ./kolla-ansible -i ./multinode deploy

When this playbook finishes, OpenStack should be up, running and functional!
If error occurs during execution, refer to
`troubleshooting guide <https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/user/troubleshooting.html>`_.

Using OpenStack
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OpenStack requires an openrc file where credentials for admin user etc are set.
To generate this file run

::

    kolla-ansible post-deploy
    . /etc/kolla/admin-openrc.sh

Install basic OpenStack CLI clients:

::

    pip install python-openstackclient python-glanceclient python-neutronclient

Depending on how you installed Kolla-Ansible, there is script that will create
example networks, images, and so on.

For pip install and CentOS host:

::

    . /usr/share/kolla-ansible/init-runonce

For pip install and Ubuntu host:

::

    . /usr/local/share/kolla-ansible/init-runonce

For git pulled source:

::

    . kolla-ansible/tools/init-runonce