External Ceph

Kolla Ansible does not provide support for provisioning and configuring a Ceph cluster directly. Instead, administrators should use a tool dedicated to this purpose, such as:

The desired pool(s) and keyrings should then be created via the Ceph CLI or similar.

Requirements

  • An existing installation of Ceph

  • Existing Ceph storage pools

  • Existing credentials in Ceph for OpenStack services to connect to Ceph (Glance, Cinder, Nova, Gnocchi, Manila)

Refer to https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/rbd-openstack/ for details on creating the pool and keyrings with appropriate permissions for each service.

Configuring External Ceph

Ceph integration is configured for different OpenStack services independently.

Note

Commands like ceph config generate-minimal-conf generate configuration files that have leading tabs. These tabs break Kolla Ansible’s ini parser. Be sure to remove the leading tabs from your ceph.conf files when copying them in the following sections.

Glance

Ceph RBD can be used as a storage backend for Glance images. Configuring Glance for Ceph includes the following steps:

  1. Enable Glance Ceph backend in globals.yml:

    glance_backend_ceph: "yes"

  2. Configure Ceph authentication details in /etc/kolla/globals.yml:

    • ceph_glance_keyring (default: ceph.client.glance.keyring)

    • ceph_glance_user (default: glance)

    • ceph_glance_pool_name (default: images)

  3. Copy Ceph configuration file to /etc/kolla/config/glance/ceph.conf

    [global]
fsid = 1d89fec3-325a-4963-a950-c4afedd37fe3
mon_initial_members = ceph-0
mon_host = 192.168.0.56
auth_cluster_required = cephx
auth_service_required = cephx
auth_client_required = cephx

  4. Copy Ceph keyring to /etc/kolla/config/glance/<ceph_glance_keyring>

  5. For copy-on-write set following in /etc/kolla/config/glance.conf:

    [GLOBAL]
show_image_direct_url = True

Warning

show_image_direct_url can present a security risk if using more than just Ceph as Glance backend(s). Please see Glance show_image_direct_url

Cinder

Ceph RBD can be used as a storage backend for Cinder volumes. Configuring Cinder for Ceph includes following steps:

  1. When using external Ceph, there may be no nodes defined in the storage group. This will cause Cinder and related services relying on this group to fail. In this case, operator should add some nodes to the storage group, all the nodes where cinder-volume and cinder-backup will run:

    [storage]
control01

  2. Enable Cinder Ceph backend in globals.yml:

    cinder_backend_ceph: "yes"

  3. Configure Ceph authentication details in /etc/kolla/globals.yml:

    • ceph_cinder_keyring (default: ceph.client.cinder.keyring)

    • ceph_cinder_user (default: cinder)

    • ceph_cinder_pool_name (default: volumes)

    • ceph_cinder_backup_keyring (default: ceph.client.cinder-backup.keyring)

    • ceph_cinder_backup_user (default: cinder-backup)

    • ceph_cinder_backup_pool_name (default: backups)

  4. Copy Ceph configuration file to /etc/kolla/config/cinder/ceph.conf

    Separate configuration options can be configured for cinder-volume and cinder-backup by adding ceph.conf files to /etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-volume and /etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-backup respectively. They will be merged with /etc/kolla/config/cinder/ceph.conf.

  5. Copy Ceph keyring files to:

    • /etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-volume/<ceph_cinder_keyring>

    • /etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-backup/<ceph_cinder_keyring>

    • /etc/kolla/config/cinder/cinder-backup/<ceph_cinder_backup_keyring>

Note

cinder-backup requires two keyrings for accessing volumes and backup pool.

Nova must also be configured to allow access to Cinder volumes:

  1. Configure Ceph authentication details in /etc/kolla/globals.yml:

    • ceph_cinder_keyring (default: ceph.client.cinder.keyring)

  2. Copy Ceph keyring file(s) to:

    • /etc/kolla/config/nova/<ceph_cinder_keyring>

If zun is enabled, and you wish to use cinder volumes with zun, it must also be configured to allow access to Cinder volumes:

  1. Enable Cinder Ceph backend for Zun in globals.yml:

    zun_configure_for_cinder_ceph: "yes"

  2. Copy Ceph configuration file to: * /etc/kolla/config/zun/zun-compute/ceph.conf

  3. Copy Ceph keyring file(s) to:

    • /etc/kolla/config/zun/zun-compute/<ceph_cinder_keyring>

Nova

Ceph RBD can be used as a storage backend for Nova instance ephemeral disks. This avoids the requirement for local storage for instances on compute nodes. It improves the performance of migration, since instances’ ephemeral disks do not need to be copied between hypervisors.

Configuring Nova for Ceph includes following steps:

  1. Enable Nova Ceph backend in globals.yml:

    nova_backend_ceph: "yes"

  2. Configure Ceph authentication details in /etc/kolla/globals.yml:

    • ceph_nova_keyring (by default it’s the same as ceph_cinder_keyring)

    • ceph_nova_user (by default it’s the same as ceph_cinder_user)

    • ceph_nova_pool_name (default: vms)

  3. Copy Ceph configuration file to /etc/kolla/config/nova/ceph.conf

  4. Copy Ceph keyring file(s) to:

    • /etc/kolla/config/nova/<ceph_nova_keyring>

    Note

    If you are using a Ceph deployment tool that generates separate Ceph keys for Cinder and Nova, you will need to override ceph_nova_keyring and ceph_nova_user to match.

Gnocchi

Ceph object storage can be used as a storage backend for Gnocchi metrics. Configuring Gnocchi for Ceph includes following steps:

  1. Enable Gnocchi Ceph backend in globals.yml:

    gnocchi_backend_storage: "ceph"

  2. Configure Ceph authentication details in /etc/kolla/globals.yml:

    • ceph_gnocchi_keyring (default: ceph.client.gnocchi.keyring)

    • ceph_gnocchi_user (default: gnocchi)

    • ceph_gnocchi_pool_name (default: gnocchi)

  3. Copy Ceph configuration file to /etc/kolla/config/gnocchi/ceph.conf

  4. Copy Ceph keyring to /etc/kolla/config/gnocchi/<ceph_gnocchi_keyring>

Manila

CephFS can be used as a storage backend for Manila shares. Configuring Manila for Ceph includes following steps:

  1. Enable Manila Ceph backend in globals.yml:

    enable_manila_backend_cephfs_native: "yes"

  2. Configure Ceph authentication details in /etc/kolla/globals.yml:

    • ceph_manila_keyring (default: ceph.client.manila.keyring)

    • ceph_manila_user (default: manila)

    Note

    Required Ceph identity caps for manila user are documented in CephFS Native driver.

  3. Copy Ceph configuration file to /etc/kolla/config/manila/ceph.conf

  4. Copy Ceph keyring to /etc/kolla/config/manila/<ceph_manila_keyring>

  5. If using multiple filesystems (Ceph Pacific+), set manila_cephfs_filesystem_name in /etc/kolla/globals.yml to the name of the Ceph filesystem Manila should use. By default, Manila will use the first filesystem returned by the ceph fs volume ls command.

  6. Setup Manila in the usual way

For more details on the rest of the Manila setup, such as creating the share type default_share_type, please see Manila in Kolla.

For more details on the CephFS Native driver, please see CephFS Native driver.

RadosGW

As of the Xena 13.0.0 release, Kolla Ansible supports integration with Ceph RadosGW. This includes:

  • Registration of Swift-compatible endpoints in Keystone

  • Load balancing across RadosGW API servers using HAProxy

See the Ceph documentation for further information, including changes that must be applied to the Ceph cluster configuration.

Enable Ceph RadosGW integration:

enable_ceph_rgw: true

Keystone integration

A Keystone user and endpoints are registered by default, however this may be avoided by setting enable_ceph_rgw_keystone to false. If registration is enabled, the username is defined via ceph_rgw_keystone_user, and this defaults to ceph_rgw. The hostnames used by the endpoints default to ceph_rgw_external_fqdn and ceph_rgw_internal_fqdn for the public and internal endpoints respectively. These default to kolla_external_fqdn and kolla_internal_fqdn respectively. The port used by the endpoints is defined via ceph_rgw_port, and defaults to 6780.

By default RadosGW supports both Swift and S3 API, and it is not completely compatible with Swift API. The option ceph_rgw_swift_compatibility can enable/disable complete RadosGW compatibility with Swift API. This should match the configuration used by Ceph RadosGW. After changing the value, run the kolla-ansible deploy command to enable.

By default, the RadosGW endpoint URL does not include the project (account) ID. This prevents cross-project and public object access. This can be resolved by setting ceph_rgw_swift_account_in_url to true. This should match the rgw_swift_account_in_url configuration option in Ceph RadosGW.

Load balancing

Warning

Users of Ceph RadosGW can generate very high volumes of traffic. It is advisable to use a separate load balancer for RadosGW for anything other than small or lightly utilised RadosGW deployments, however this is currently out of scope for Kolla Ansible.

Load balancing is enabled by default, however this may be avoided by setting enable_ceph_rgw_loadbalancer to false. If using load balancing, the RadosGW hosts and ports must be configured. Each item should contain host and port keys. The ip and port keys are optional. If ip is not specified, the host values should be resolvable from the host running HAProxy. If the port is not specified, the default HTTP (80) or HTTPS (443) port will be used. For example:

ceph_rgw_hosts:
  - host: rgw-host-1
  - host: rgw-host-2
    ip: 10.0.0.42
    port: 8080

The HAProxy frontend port is defined via ceph_rgw_port, and defaults to 6780.

Cephadm and Ceph Client Version

When configuring Zun with Cinder volumes, kolla-ansible installs some Ceph client packages on zun-compute hosts. You can set the version of the Ceph packages installed by,

  1. Configuring Ceph version details in /etc/kolla/globals.yml:

    • ceph_version (default: pacific)