Multisite VIM Usage¶
A single Tacker controller node can be used to manage multiple OpenStack sites without having the need to deploy Tacker server on each of these sites. Tacker allows users to deploy VNFs in multiple OpenStack sites using the multisite VIM feature. OpenStack versions starting from Kilo are supported with this feature.
Preparing the OpenStack site¶
Create a new ‘nfv’ project and admin privileged ‘nfv’ user on the remote OpenStack site.
Create the required neutron networks for management, packet in and packet out networks that will be used by VNFs.
Register a new OpenStack VIM¶
To register a new OpenStack VIM inside Tacker.
$ openstack vim register --description 'OpenStack Liberty' --config-file vim_config.yaml Site1
Created a new vim:
+----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| auth_cred | {"username": "nfv_user", "password": "***", "project_name": "nfv", "user_id": "", "user_domain_name": "default", "auth_url": |
| | "http://127.0.0.1/identity", "project_id": "", "project_domain_name": "default"} |
| auth_url | http://127.0.0.1/identity |
| description | OpenStack Liberty |
| id | 3f3c51c5-8bda-4bd3-adb3-5ae62eae65c3 |
| name | Site1 |
| placement_attr | {"regions": ["RegionOne", "RegionTwo"]} |
| tenant_id | 8907bae480c0414d98c3519acbad1b06 |
| type | openstack |
| vim_project | {"id": "", "name": "nfv"} |
+----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
In the above command, config.yaml contains VIM specific parameters as below:
auth_url: 'http://127.0.0.1/identity'
username: 'nfv_user'
password: 'devstack'
project_name: 'nfv'
The parameter auth_url points to the keystone service authorization URL of the remote OpenStack site.
Note
In Keystone, port 5000 is enabled for authentication service [1], so the end users can use auth_url: ‘http://127.0.0.1:5000/v3 instead of auth_url: ‘http://127.0.0.1/identity’ as above mention.
Default VIM configuration¶
The default vim needs to be registered. This is required when the optional argument –vim-id is not provided during vnf creation. Refer to steps described in manual installation to register default vim.
Onboard a VNFD¶
$ openstack vnf descriptor create --description "Openwrt VNFD" --vnfd-file vnfd1.yaml openwrt-vnfd1
Created a new vnfd:
+-----------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------+
| created_at | 2018-06-20 05:37:57.589182 |
| description | Openwrt VNFD |
| id | c3cbf0c0-a492-49e3-9541-945e49e7ed7e |
| name | openwrt-vnfd1 |
| service_types | vnfd |
| template_source | onboarded |
| tenant_id | a5346a4d3c464b4f8776ee2f4bfb86af |
| updated_at | |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------+
Deploying a new VNF on registered VIM¶
$ openstack vnf create --description 'Openwrt VNF on Site1' --vnfd-id c3cbf0c0-a492-49e3-9541-945e49e7ed7e --vim-name Site1 openwrt_VNF
Created a new vnf:
+----------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+----------------+--------------------------------------+
| description | Openwrt tosca template |
| id | 159ed8a5-a5a7-4f7a-be50-0f5f86603e3a |
| instance_id | 7b4ab046-d977-4781-9f0c-1ee9dcce01c6 |
| mgmt_ip_address| |
| name | openwrt_VNF |
| placement_attr | {"vim_name": "Site1"} |
| status | PENDING_CREATE |
| tenant_id | 8907bae480c0414d98c3519acbad1b06 |
| vim_id | 3f3c51c5-8bda-4bd3-adb3-5ae62eae65c3 |
| vnfd_id | c3cbf0c0-a492-49e3-9541-945e49e7ed7e |
+----------------+--------------------------------------+
The –vim-id/–vim-name argument is optional during vnf creation. If –vim-id/–vim-name is not specified, the default vim will be used to deploy VNF on the default site. We can create default vim by specifying –is-default option with vim-register command.
User can optionally provide –vim-region-name during vnf creation to deploy the VNF in a specify region within that VIM.
Updating a VIM¶
Tacker allows for updating VIM authorization parameters such as ‘username’, ‘password’ and ‘project_name’ and ‘ids’ after it has been registered. To update ‘username’ and password’ for a given VIM user within Tacker:
$ openstack vim set VIM0 --config-file update.yaml
update.yaml in above command will contain:
username: 'new_user'
password: 'new_pw'
Note that ‘auth_url’ parameter of a VIM is not allowed to be updated as ‘auth_url’ uniquely identifies a given ‘vim’ resource.
Deleting a VIM¶
To delete a VIM :
$ openstack vim delete VIM1
Deleted vim: VIM1
Features¶
Tacker support multi-tenancy, that means a VIM registered by one tenant can not be shared with other.
Pluggable driver module framework allowing Tacker to interact with multiple VIM types.
Compatible for OpenStack versions starting from Kilo.
Supports keystone versions v2.0 and v3.
Limitations¶
Fernet keys for password encryption and decryption is stored on file systems. This is a limitation when multiple servers are serving behind a load balancer server and the keys need to be synced across tacker server systems.
