Nova Compute OpenStack Ansible Role

Status

• on master branch
• on development branch
• on Ansible Galaxy

OpenStack Nova Compute service installation

Tested on Ubuntu Precise (12.04) and Trusty (14.04)

Requirements

A RabbitMQ server. See below.

For RHEL/CentOS, RHOSP or RDO repositories are needed.

Role Variables

Name	Default value	Description	Note
nova_compute_my_ip	{{ ansible_eth0.ipv4.address }}	Management IP for nova-compute
nova_compute_vncserver_proxyclient_address	{{ my_ip }}	The address to use to connect to the vnc proxy
nova_compute_vncserver_proxy_address	{{ my_ip }}	The address to which proxy clients should connect
nova_compute_novncproxy_base_url	"http://{{ vncserver_proxy_address }}:6080/vnc_auto.html"	Desired novncproxy base_url
nova_compute_virt_type	kvm	Desired virtualization type
neutron_hostname	localhost	Hostname/IP address where the neutron server runs
neutron_pass	neutron_pass_default	Neutron admin password
neutron_port	9696	Neutron port
neutron_protocol	http	Neutron protocol (http/https)
keystone_admin_port	35357	Keystone admin port
keystone_hostname	localhost	Hostname/IP address where keystone runs
keystone_port	5000	Keystone port
keystone_protocol	http	Keystone protocol (http/https)
glance_hostname	localhost	Hostname/IP address where glance runs
glance_port	9292	Glance port
glance_protocol	http	Glance protocol (http/https)

RabbitMQ (must exist)

Name	Default value	Description	Note
nova_compute_rabbit_userid	rabbit_username_default	RabbitMQ username for console auth
nova_compute_rabbit_password	rabbit_pass_default	RabbitMQ password for console auth
nova_compute_rabbit_virtual_host	/	RabbitMQ virtual host for console auth
nova_compute_rabbit_retry_interval	1	Frequency to retry connecting to RabbitMQ
nova_compute_rabbit_host	localhost	The RabbitMQ broker address where a single node is used
nova_compute_rabbit_port	5672	The RabbitMQ broker port where a single node is used
nova_compute_rabbit_hosts	$rabbit_host:$rabbit_port	RabbitMQ HA cluster host:port pairs
nova_compute_rabbit_ha_queues	False	Use HA queues in RabbitMQ (x-ha-policy: all)

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: compute001
  roles:
    - role: openstack-nova_compute
      nova_compute_rabbit_host: "{{ hostvars['controller'].ansible_all_ipv4_addresses[0] }}"
      nova_compute_rabbit_userid: "openstack-neutron"
      nova_compute_rabbit_password: "{{ RABBIT_NEUTRON_PASS }}"
      keystone_hostname: "{{ hostvars['controller'].ansible_all_ipv4_addresses[0] }}"
      neutron_hostname: "{{ hostvars['controller'].ansible_all_ipv4_addresses[0] }}"
      glance_hostname: "{{ hostvars['controller'].ansible_all_ipv4_addresses[0] }}"
      nova_compute_vncserver_proxy_address: "{{ hostvars['controller'].ansible_all_ipv4_addresses[0] }}"
      neutron_pass: "{{ NEUTRON_PASS }}"
      nova_pass: "{{ NOVA_PASS }}"

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A complete Ansible playbook demo, which uses this role, is available on Github (openstack-ansible-galaxy/vagrant-ansible-openstack) https://github.com/openstack-ansible-galaxy/vagrant-ansible-openstack

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Credits

RedHat support implemented by Abel Boldú abel.boldu@gmx.com

License

Apache

Author Information

Davide Guerri - davide.guerri@gmail.com