Chapter 6. Composable Services and Custom Roles The Overcloud usually consists of nodes in predefined roles such as Controller nodes, Compute nodes, and different storage node types. Each of these default roles contains a set of services defined in the core Heat template collection on the director node. However, the architecture of the core Heat templates provide methods to do the following tasks: Create custom roles Add and remove services from each role This allows the possibility to create different combinations of services on different roles. This chapter explores the architecture of custom roles, composable services, and methods for using them. 6.1. Supported Role Architecture The following architectures are available when using custom roles and composable services: Architecture 1 - Default Architecture Uses the default roles_data files. All controller services are contained within one Controller role. Architecture 2 - Supported Standalone Roles Use the predefined files in /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/roles to generate a custom roles_data file`. See Section 6.2.3, "Supported Custom Roles" . Architecture 3 - Custom Composable Services Create your own roles and use them to generate a custom roles_data file. Note that only a limited number of composable service combinations have been tested and verified and Red Hat cannot support all composable service combinations. 6.2. Roles 6.2.1. Examining the roles_data File The Overcloud creation process defines its roles using a roles_data file. The roles_data file contains a YAML-formatted list of the roles. The following is a shortened example of the roles_data syntax: The core Heat template collection contains a default roles_data file located at /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/roles_data.yaml . The default file defines the following role types: Controller Compute BlockStorage ObjectStorage CephStorage . The openstack overcloud deploy command includes this file during deployment. You can override this file with a custom roles_data file using the -r argument. For example: 6.2.2. Creating a roles_data File Although you can manually create a custom roles_data file, you can also automatically generate the file using individual role templates. The director provides several commands to manage role templates and automatically generate a custom roles_data file. To list the default role templates, use the openstack overcloud roles list command: To see the role's YAML definition, use the openstack overcloud roles show command: To generate a custom roles_data file, use the openstack overcloud roles generate command to join multiple predefined roles into a single file. For example, the following command joins the Controller , Compute , and Networker roles into a single file: The -o defines the name of the file to create. This creates a custom roles_data file. However, the example uses the Controller and Networker roles, which both contain the same networking agents. This means the networking services scale from Controller to the Networker role. The overcloud balances the load for networking services between the Controller and Networker nodes. To make this Networker role standalone, you can create your own custom Controller role, as well as any other role needed. This allows you to generate a roles_data file from your own custom roles. Copy the directory from the core Heat template collection to the stack user's home directory: Add or modify the custom role files in this directory. Use the --roles-path option with any of the aforementioned role sub-commands to use this directory as the source for your custom roles. For example: This generates a single my_roles_data.yaml file from the individual roles in the ~/roles directory. Note The default roles collection also contains the ControllerOpenStack role, which does not include services for Networker , Messaging , and Database roles. You can use the ControllerOpenStack combined with with the standalone Networker , Messaging , and Database roles. 6.2.3. Supported Custom Roles The following table contains information about the available custom roles. You can find custom role templates in the /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/roles directory. Role Description File BlockStorage OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) node. BlockStorage.yaml CellController Compute cell for hosting instances. Includes services for the cell conductor, message queue, and database CellController.yaml CephAll Full standalone Ceph Storage node. Includes OSD, MON, Object Gateway (RGW), Object Operations (MDS), Manager (MGR), and RBD Mirroring. CephAll.yaml CephFile Standalone scale-out Ceph Storage file role. Includes OSD and Object Operations (MDS). CephFile.yaml CephObject Standalone scale-out Ceph Storage object role. Includes OSD and Object Gateway (RGW). CephObject.yaml CephStorage Ceph Storage OSD node role. CephStorage.yaml ComputeAlt Alternate Compute node role. ComputeAlt.yaml ComputeDVR DVR enabled Compute node role. ComputeDVR.yaml ComputeHCI Compute node with hyper-converged infrastructure. Includes Compute and Ceph OSD services. ComputeHCI.yaml ComputeInstanceHA Compute Instance HA node role. Use in conjunction with the environments/compute-instanceha.yaml` environment file. ComputeInstanceHA.yaml ComputeLiquidio Compute node with Cavium Liquidio Smart NIC. ComputeLiquidio.yaml ComputeOvsDpdkRT Compute OVS DPDK RealTime role. ComputeOvsDpdkRT.yaml ComputeOvsDpdk Compute OVS DPDK role. ComputeOvsDpdk.yaml ComputePPC64LE Compute role for ppc64le servers. ComputePPC64LE.yaml ComputeRealTime Compute role optimized for real-time behaviour. When using this role, it is mandatory that an overcloud-realtime-compute image is available and the role specific parameters IsolCpusList , NovaComputeCpuDedicatedSet and NovaComputeCpuSharedSet are set according to the hardware of the real-time compute nodes. ComputeRealTime.yaml ComputeSriovRT Compute SR-IOV RealTime role. ComputeSriovRT.yaml ComputeSriov Compute SR-IOV role. ComputeSriov.yaml Compute Standard Compute node role. Compute.yaml ControllerAllNovaStandalone Controller role that does not contain the database, messaging, networking, and OpenStack Compute (nova) control components. Use in combination with the Database , Messaging , Networker , and Novacontrol roles. ControllerAllNovaStandalone.yaml ControllerNoCeph Controller role with core Controller services loaded but no Ceph Storage (MON) components. This role handles database, messaging, and network functions but not any Ceph Storage functions. ControllerNoCeph.yaml ControllerNovaStandalone Controller role that does not contain the OpenStack Compute (nova) control component. Use in combination with the Novacontrol role. ControllerNovaStandalone.yaml ControllerOpenstack Controller role that does not contain the database, messaging, and networking components. Use in combination with the Database , Messaging , and Networker roles. ControllerOpenstack.yaml ControllerStorageNfs Controller role with all core services loaded and uses Ceph NFS. This roles handles database, messaging, and network functions. ControllerStorageNfs.yaml Controller Controller role with all core services loaded. This roles handles database, messaging, and network functions. Controller.yaml Database Standalone database role. Database managed as a Galera cluster using Pacemaker. Database.yaml HciCephAll Compute node with hyper-converged infrastructure and all Ceph Storage services. Includes OSD, MON, Object Gateway (RGW), Object Operations (MDS), Manager (MGR), and RBD Mirroring. HciCephAll.yaml HciCephFile Compute node with hyper-converged infrastructure and Ceph Storage file services. Includes OSD and Object Operations (MDS). HciCephFile.yaml HciCephMon Compute node with hyper-converged infrastructure and Ceph Storage block services. Includes OSD, MON, and Manager. HciCephMon.yaml HciCephObject Compute node with hyper-converged infrastructure and Ceph Storage object services. Includes OSD and Object Gateway (RGW). HciCephObject.yaml IronicConductor Ironic Conductor node role. IronicConductor.yaml Messaging Standalone messaging role. RabbitMQ managed with Pacemaker. Messaging.yaml Networker (ML2/OVS) Standalone networking role under ML2/OVS. Runs OpenStack networking (neutron) agents on their own. If your deployment uses the ML2/OVN mechanism driver, see Creating a Custom Networker Role with ML2/OVN . Networker.yaml Novacontrol Standalone nova-control role to run OpenStack Compute (nova) control agents on their own. Novacontrol.yaml ObjectStorage Swift Object Storage node role. ObjectStorage.yaml Telemetry Telemetry role with all the metrics and alarming services. Telemetry.yaml 6.2.4. Creating a Custom Networker Role with ML2/OVN To deploy a custom networker role when your deployment uses the ML2/OVN mechanism driver, you must use an environment file to set the parameter for the role on networker nodes and clear it on controller nodes. Use an environment file such as neutron-ovn-dvr-ha.yaml . Procedure On controller nodes, clear OVNCMSOptions : On networker nodes, set OVNCMSOptions to 'enable-chassis-as-gw' : 6.2.5. Examining Role Parameters Each role uses the following parameters: name (Mandatory) The name of the role, which is a plain text name with no spaces or special characters. Check that the chosen name does not cause conflicts with other resources. For example, use Networker as a name instead of Network . description (Optional) A plain text description for the role. tags (Optional) A YAML list of tags that define role properties. Use this parameter to define the primary role with both the controller and primary tags together: Important If you do not tag the primary role, the first role defined becomes the primary role. Ensure that this role is the Controller role. networks A YAML list or dictionary of networks to configure on the role. If using a YAML list, list each composable network: If using a dictionary, map each network to a specific subnet in your composable networks. Default networks include External , InternalApi , Storage , StorageMgmt , Tenant , and Management . CountDefault (Optional) Defines the default number of nodes to deploy for this role. HostnameFormatDefault (Optional) Defines the default hostname format for the role. The default naming convention uses the following format: For example, the default Controller nodes are named: disable_constraints (Optional) Defines whether to disable OpenStack Compute (nova) and OpenStack Image Storage (glance) constraints when deploying with the director. Used when deploying an overcloud with pre-provisioned nodes. For more information, see Configuring a basic overcloud with pre-provisioned nodes in the Director Installation and Usage guide. update_serial (Optional) Defines how many nodes to update simultaneously during the OpenStack update options. In the default roles_data.yaml file: The default is 1 for Controller, Object Storage, and Ceph Storage nodes. The default is 25 for Compute and Block Storage nodes. If you omit this parameter from a custom role, the default is 1 . ServicesDefault (Optional) Defines the default list of services to include on the node. See Section 6.3.2, "Examining Composable Service Architecture" for more information. These parameters provide a means to create new roles and also define which services to include. The openstack overcloud deploy command integrates the parameters from the roles_data file into some of the Jinja2-based templates. For example, at certain points, the overcloud.j2.yaml Heat template iterates over the list of roles from roles_data.yaml and creates parameters and resources specific to each respective role. The resource definition for each role in the overcloud.j2.yaml Heat template appears as the following snippet: This snippet shows how the Jinja2-based template incorporates the {{role.name}} variable to define the name of each role as a OS::Heat::ResourceGroup resource. This in turn uses each name parameter from the roles_data file to name each respective OS::Heat::ResourceGroup resource. 6.2.6. Creating a New Role In this example, the aim is to create a new Horizon role to host the OpenStack Dashboard ( horizon ) only. In this situation, you create a custom roles directory that includes the new role information. Create a custom copy of the default roles directory: Create a new file called ~/roles/Horizon.yaml and create a new Horizon role containing base and core OpenStack Dashboard services. For example: It is a good idea to set the CountDefault to 1 so that a default Overcloud always includes the Horizon node. If scaling the services in an existing overcloud, keep the existing services on the Controller role. If creating a new overcloud and you want the OpenStack Dashboard to remain on the standalone role, remove the OpenStack Dashboard components from the Controller role definition: Generate the new roles_data file using the roles directory as the source: You might need to define a new flavor for this role so that you can tag specific nodes. For this example, use the following commands to create a horizon flavor: Tag nodes into the new flavor using the following command: Define the Horizon node count and flavor using the following environment file snippet: Include the new roles_data file and environment file when running the openstack overcloud deploy command. For example: When the deployment completes, this creates a three-node Overcloud consisting of one Controller node, one Compute node, and one Networker node. To view the Overcloud's list of nodes, run the following command: 6.3. Composable Services 6.3.1. Guidelines and Limitations Note the following guidelines and limitations for the composable node architecture. For services not managed by Pacemaker: You can assign services to standalone custom roles. You can create additional custom roles after the initial deployment and deploy them to scale existing services. For services managed by Pacemaker: You can assign Pacemaker-managed services to standalone custom roles. Pacemaker has a 16 node limit. If you assign the Pacemaker service ( OS::TripleO::Services::Pacemaker ) to 16 nodes, subsequent nodes must use the Pacemaker Remote service ( OS::TripleO::Services::PacemakerRemote ) instead. You cannot have the Pacemaker service and Pacemaker Remote service on the same role. Do not include the Pacemaker service ( OS::TripleO::Services::Pacemaker ) on roles that do not contain Pacemaker-managed services. You cannot scale up or scale down a custom role that contains OS::TripleO::Services::Pacemaker or OS::TripleO::Services::PacemakerRemote services. General limitations: You cannot change custom roles and composable services during the a major version upgrade. You cannot modify the list of services for any role after deploying an Overcloud. Modifying the service lists after Overcloud deployment can cause deployment errors and leave orphaned services on nodes. 6.3.2. Examining Composable Service Architecture The core Heat template collection contains two sets of composable service templates: deployment contains the templates for key OpenStack Platform services. puppet/services contains legacy templates for configuring composable services. In some cases, the composable services use templates from this directory for compatibility. In most cases, the composable services use the templates in the deployment directory. Each template contains a description that identifies its purpose. For example, the deployment/time/ntp-baremetal-puppet.yaml service template contains the following description: These service templates are registered as resources specific to a Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment. This means you can call each resource using a unique Heat resource namespace defined in the overcloud-resource-registry-puppet.j2.yaml file. All services use the OS::TripleO::Services namespace for their resource type. Some resources use the base composable service templates directly. For example: However, core services require containers and use the containerized service templates. For example, the keystone containerized service uses the following resource: These containerized templates usually reference other templates to include dependencies. For example, the deployment/keystone/keystone-container-puppet.yaml template stores the output of the base template in the ContainersCommon resource: The containerized template can then incorporate functions and data from the containers-common.yaml template. The overcloud.j2.yaml Heat template includes a section of Jinja2-based code to define a service list for each custom role in the roles_data.yaml file: For the default roles, this creates the following service list parameters: ControllerServices , ComputeServices , BlockStorageServices , ObjectStorageServices , and CephStorageServices . You define the default services for each custom role in the roles_data.yaml file. For example, the default Controller role contains the following content: These services are then defined as the default list for the ControllerServices parameter. Note You can also use an environment file to override the default list for the service parameters. For example, you can define ControllerServices as a parameter_default in an environment file to override the services list from the roles_data.yaml file. 6.3.3. Adding and Removing Services from Roles The basic method of adding or removing services involves creating a copy of the default service list for a node role and then adding or removing services. For example, you might aim to remove OpenStack Orchestration ( heat ) from the Controller nodes. In this situation, create a custom copy of the default roles directory: Edit the ~/roles/Controller.yaml file and modify the service list for the ServicesDefault parameter. Scroll to the OpenStack Orchestration services and remove them: Generate the new roles_data file. For example: Include this new roles_data file when running the openstack overcloud deploy command. For example: This deploys an Overcloud without OpenStack Orchestration services installed on the Controller nodes. Note You can also disable services in the roles_data file using a custom environment file. Redirect the services to disable to the OS::Heat::None resource. For example: 6.3.4. Enabling Disabled Services Some services are disabled by default. These services are registered as null operations ( OS::Heat::None ) in the overcloud-resource-registry-puppet.j2.yaml file. For example, the Block Storage backup service ( cinder-backup ) is disabled: To enable this service, include an environment file that links the resource to its respective Heat templates in the puppet/services directory. Some services have predefined environment files in the environments directory. For example, the Block Storage backup service uses the environments/cinder-backup.yaml file, which contains the following: This overrides the default null operation resource and enables the service. Include this environment file when running the openstack overcloud deploy command. 6.3.5. Creating a Generic Node with No Services Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the ability to create generic Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 nodes without any OpenStack services configured. This is useful when you need to host software outside of the core Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment. For example, OpenStack Platform provides integration with monitoring tools such as Kibana and Sensu, see Monitoring Tools Configuration Guide . While Red Hat does not provide support for the monitoring tools themselves, the director can create a generic Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 node to host these tools. Note The generic node still uses the base overcloud-full image rather than a base Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 image. This means the node has some Red Hat OpenStack Platform software installed but not enabled or configured. Creating a generic node requires a new role without a ServicesDefault list: Include the role in your custom roles_data file ( roles_data_with_generic.yaml ). Make sure to keep the existing Controller and Compute roles. You can also include an environment file ( generic-node-params.yaml ) to specify how many generic Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 nodes you require and the flavor when selecting nodes to provision. For example: Include both the roles file and the environment file when running the openstack overcloud deploy command. For example: This deploys a three-node environment with one Controller node, one Compute node, and one generic Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 node.

Commands:
- name: Controller description: | Controller role that has all the controller services loaded and handles Database, Messaging and Network functions. ServicesDefault: - OS::TripleO::Services::AuditD - OS::TripleO::Services::CACerts - OS::TripleO::Services::CephClient - name: Compute description: | Basic Compute Node role ServicesDefault: - OS::TripleO::Services::AuditD - OS::TripleO::Services::CACerts - OS::TripleO::Services::CephClient
openstack overcloud deploy --templates -r ~/templates/roles_data-custom.yaml
openstack overcloud roles list BlockStorage CephStorage Compute ComputeHCI ComputeOvsDpdk Controller
openstack overcloud roles show Compute
openstack overcloud roles generate -o ~/roles_data.yaml Controller Compute Networker
cp -r /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/roles ~/.
openstack overcloud roles generate -o my_roles_data.yaml --roles-path ~/roles Controller Compute Networker
ControllerParameters: OVNCMSOptions: ""
NetworkerParameters: OVNCMSOptions: "enable-chassis-as-gw"
- name: Controller tags: - primary - controller
networks: - External - InternalApi - Storage - StorageMgmt - Tenant
networks: External: subnet: external_subnet InternalApi: subnet: internal_api_subnet Storage: subnet: storage_subnet StorageMgmt: subnet: storage_mgmt_subnet Tenant: subnet: tenant_subnet
[STACK NAME]-[ROLE NAME]-[NODE ID]
overcloud-controller-0 overcloud-controller-1 overcloud-controller-2
{{role.name}}: type: OS::Heat::ResourceGroup depends_on: Networks properties: count: {get_param: {{role.name}}Count} removal_policies: {get_param: {{role.name}}RemovalPolicies} resource_def: type: OS::TripleO::{{role.name}} properties: CloudDomain: {get_param: CloudDomain} ServiceNetMap: {get_attr: [ServiceNetMap, service_net_map]} EndpointMap: {get_attr: [EndpointMap, endpoint_map]}
cp -r /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/roles ~/.
- name: Horizon CountDefault: 1 HostnameFormatDefault: '%stackname%-horizon-%index%' ServicesDefault: - OS::TripleO::Services::CACerts - OS::TripleO::Services::Kernel - OS::TripleO::Services::Ntp - OS::TripleO::Services::Snmp - OS::TripleO::Services::Sshd - OS::TripleO::Services::Timezone - OS::TripleO::Services::TripleoPackages - OS::TripleO::Services::TripleoFirewall - OS::TripleO::Services::SensuClient - OS::TripleO::Services::FluentdClient - OS::TripleO::Services::AuditD - OS::TripleO::Services::Collectd - OS::TripleO::Services::MySQLClient - OS::TripleO::Services::Apache - OS::TripleO::Services::Horizon
- name: Controller CountDefault: 1 ServicesDefault: - OS::TripleO::Services::GnocchiMetricd - OS::TripleO::Services::GnocchiStatsd - OS::TripleO::Services::HAproxy - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApi - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCfn - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCloudwatch - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatEngine # - OS::TripleO::Services::Horizon # Remove this service - OS::TripleO::Services::IronicApi - OS::TripleO::Services::IronicConductor - OS::TripleO::Services::Iscsid - OS::TripleO::Services::Keepalived
openstack overcloud roles generate -o roles_data-horizon.yaml --roles-path ~/roles Controller Compute Horizon
openstack flavor create --id auto --ram 6144 --disk 40 --vcpus 4 horizon openstack flavor set --property "cpu_arch"="x86_64" --property "capabilities:boot_option"="local" --property "capabilities:profile"="horizon" horizon openstack flavor set --property resources:VCPU=0 --property resources:MEMORY_MB=0 --property resources:DISK_GB=0 --property resources:CUSTOM_BAREMETAL=1 horizon
openstack baremetal node set --property capabilities='profile:horizon,boot_option:local' 58c3d07e-24f2-48a7-bbb6-6843f0e8ee13
parameter_defaults: OvercloudHorizonFlavor: horizon HorizonCount: 1
openstack overcloud deploy --templates -r ~/templates/roles_data-horizon.yaml -e ~/templates/node-count-flavor.yaml
openstack server list
description: > NTP service deployment using puppet, this YAML file creates the interface between the HOT template and the puppet manifest that actually installs and configure NTP.
resource_registry: OS::TripleO::Services::Ntp: deployment/time/ntp-baremetal-puppet.yaml
resource_registry: OS::TripleO::Services::Keystone: deployment/keystone/keystone-container-puppet.yaml
resources: ContainersCommon: type: ../containers-common.yaml
{{role.name}}Services: description: A list of service resources (configured in the Heat resource_registry) which represent nested stacks for each service that should get installed on the {{role.name}} role. type: comma_delimited_list default: {{role.ServicesDefault|default([])}}
- name: Controller CountDefault: 1 ServicesDefault: - OS::TripleO::Services::CACerts - OS::TripleO::Services::CephMon - OS::TripleO::Services::CephExternal - OS::TripleO::Services::CephRgw - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderApi - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderBackup - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderScheduler - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderVolume - OS::TripleO::Services::Core - OS::TripleO::Services::Kernel - OS::TripleO::Services::Keystone - OS::TripleO::Services::GlanceApi - OS::TripleO::Services::GlanceRegistry
cp -r /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/roles ~/.
- OS::TripleO::Services::GlanceApi - OS::TripleO::Services::GlanceRegistry - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApi # Remove this service - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCfn # Remove this service - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCloudwatch # Remove this service - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatEngine # Remove this service - OS::TripleO::Services::MySQL - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronDhcpAgent
openstack overcloud roles generate -o roles_data-no_heat.yaml --roles-path ~/roles Controller Compute Networker
openstack overcloud deploy --templates -r ~/templates/roles_data-no_heat.yaml
resource_registry: OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApi: OS::Heat::None OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCfn: OS::Heat::None OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCloudwatch: OS::Heat::None OS::TripleO::Services::HeatEngine: OS::Heat::None
OS::TripleO::Services::CinderBackup: OS::Heat::None
resource_registry: OS::TripleO::Services::CinderBackup: ../podman/services/pacemaker/cinder-backup.yaml
openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/cinder-backup.yaml
- name: Generic
parameter_defaults: OvercloudGenericFlavor: baremetal GenericCount: 1
openstack overcloud deploy --templates -r ~/templates/roles_data_with_generic.yaml -e ~/templates/generic-node-params.yaml