Developer Quick-Start

This is a quick walkthrough to get you started developing code for magnum. This assumes you are already familiar with submitting code reviews to an OpenStack project.

Setup Dev Environment

Install OS-specific prerequisites:

# Ubuntu Xenial:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y python-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev curl \
                    libmysqlclient-dev libxslt-dev libpq-dev git \
                    libffi-dev gettext build-essential python3-dev

# Fedora/RHEL:
sudo yum install -y python-devel openssl-devel mysql-devel curl \
                    libxml2-devel libxslt-devel postgresql-devel git \
                    libffi-devel gettext gcc

# openSUSE/SLE 12:
sudo zypper --non-interactive install git libffi-devel curl \
                    libmysqlclient-devel libopenssl-devel libxml2-devel \
                    libxslt-devel postgresql-devel python-devel \
                    gettext-runtime

Install pip:

curl -s https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python

Install common prerequisites:

sudo pip install virtualenv flake8 tox testrepository git-review

You may need to explicitly upgrade virtualenv if you’ve installed the one from your OS distribution and it is too old (tox will complain). You can upgrade it individually, if you need to:

sudo pip install -U virtualenv

Magnum source code should be pulled directly from git:

# from your home or source directory
cd ~
git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/magnum
cd magnum

All unit tests should be run using tox. To run magnum’s entire test suite:

# run all tests (unit and pep8)
tox

To run a specific test, use a positional argument for the unit tests:

# run a specific test for Python 2.7
tox -epy27 -- test_conductor

You may pass options to the test programs using positional arguments:

# run all the Python 2.7 unit tests (in parallel!)
tox -epy27 -- --parallel

To run only the pep8/flake8 syntax and style checks:

tox -epep8

To run unit test coverage and check percentage of code covered:

tox -e cover

To discover and interact with templates, please refer to http://docs.openstack.org/developer/magnum/dev/cluster-type-definition.html

Exercising the Services Using Devstack

Devstack can be configured to enable magnum support. It is easy to develop magnum with the devstack environment. Magnum depends on nova, glance, heat and neutron to create and schedule virtual machines to simulate bare-metal (full bare-metal support is under active development).

NOTE: Running devstack within a virtual machine with magnum enabled is not recommended at this time.

This session has only been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and Fedora 20/21. We recommend users to select one of them if it is possible.

Clone devstack:

# Create a root directory for devstack if needed
sudo mkdir -p /opt/stack
sudo chown $USER /opt/stack

git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack-dev/devstack /opt/stack/devstack

We will run devstack with minimal local.conf settings required to enable magnum, heat, and neutron (neutron is enabled by default in devstack since Kilo, and heat must be enabled by yourself):

$ cat > /opt/stack/devstack/local.conf << END
[[local|localrc]]
DATABASE_PASSWORD=password
RABBIT_PASSWORD=password
SERVICE_TOKEN=password
SERVICE_PASSWORD=password
ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
# magnum requires the following to be set correctly
PUBLIC_INTERFACE=eth1

# Enable barbican service and use it to store TLS certificates
# For details https://docs.openstack.org/developer/magnum/userguide.html#transport-layer-security
enable_plugin barbican https://git.openstack.org/openstack/barbican

enable_plugin heat https://git.openstack.org/openstack/heat

# Enable magnum plugin after dependent plugins
enable_plugin magnum https://git.openstack.org/openstack/magnum

# Optional:  uncomment to enable the Magnum UI plugin in Horizon
#enable_plugin magnum-ui https://github.com/openstack/magnum-ui

VOLUME_BACKING_FILE_SIZE=20G
END

NOTE: Update PUBLIC_INTERFACE as appropriate for your system.

NOTE: Enable heat plugin is necessary.

Optionally, you can enable neutron/lbaas v2 with octavia to create load balancers for multi master clusters:

$ cat >> /opt/stack/devstack/local.conf << END
enable_plugin neutron-lbaas https://git.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-lbaas
enable_plugin octavia https://git.openstack.org/openstack/octavia

# Disable LBaaS(v1) service
disable_service q-lbaas
# Enable LBaaS(v2) services
enable_service q-lbaasv2
enable_service octavia
enable_service o-cw
enable_service o-hk
enable_service o-hm
enable_service o-api
END

Optionally, you can enable ceilometer in devstack. If ceilometer is enabled, magnum will periodically send metrics to ceilometer:

$ cat >> /opt/stack/devstack/local.conf << END
enable_plugin ceilometer https://git.openstack.org/openstack/ceilometer
END

If you want to deploy Docker Registry 2.0 in your cluster, you should enable swift in devstack:

$ cat >> /opt/stack/devstack/local.conf << END
enable_service s-proxy
enable_service s-object
enable_service s-container
enable_service s-account
END

More devstack configuration information can be found at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/configuration.html

More neutron configuration information can be found at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/guides/neutron.html

Run devstack:

cd /opt/stack/devstack
./stack.sh

NOTE: This will take a little extra time when the Fedora Atomic micro-OS image is downloaded for the first time.

At this point, two magnum process (magnum-api and magnum-conductor) will be running on devstack screens. If you make some code changes and want to test their effects, just stop and restart magnum-api and/or magnum-conductor.

Prepare your session to be able to use the various openstack clients including magnum, neutron, and glance. Create a new shell, and source the devstack openrc script:

source /opt/stack/devstack/openrc admin admin

Magnum has been tested with the Fedora Atomic micro-OS and CoreOS. Magnum will likely work with other micro-OS platforms, but each requires individual support in the heat template.

The Fedora Atomic micro-OS image will automatically be added to glance. You can add additional images manually through glance. To verify the image created when installing devstack use:

$ openstack image list

+--------------------------------------+----------------------+
| ID                                   | Name                 |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------+
| d6ab5b70-c866-4697-ad8c-f40dbd18eaec | cirros-0.3.4.img     |
| 71fe76a1-58fb-45e9-89a4-6d772fefea07 | fedora-atomic-latest |
| 7d5acefc-9766-47be-9bff-7af5d6fbef35 | cirros               |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------+

To list the available commands and resources for magnum, use:

magnum help

To list out the health of the internal services, namely conductor, of magnum, use:

$ magnum service-list

+----+---------------------------------------+------------------+-------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+
| id | host                                  | binary           | state | disabled | disabled_reason | created_at                | updated_at                |
+----+---------------------------------------+------------------+-------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+
| 1  | oxy-dev.hq1-0a5a3c02.hq1.abcde.com    | magnum-conductor | up    |          | -               | 2016-08-31T10:03:36+00:00 | 2016-08-31T10:11:41+00:00 |
+----+---------------------------------------+------------------+-------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+

Create a keypair for use with the ClusterTemplate:

test -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub || ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
nova keypair-add --pub-key ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub testkey

Check a dns server can resolve a host name properly:

dig <server name> @<dns server> +short

For example:

$ dig www.openstack.org @8.8.8.8 +short
www.openstack.org.cdn.cloudflare.net.
104.20.64.68
104.20.65.68

Building a Kubernetes Cluster - Based on Fedora Atomic

Create a ClusterTemplate. This is similar in nature to a flavor and describes to magnum how to construct the cluster. The ClusterTemplate specifies a Fedora Atomic image so the clusters which use this ClusterTemplate will be based on Fedora Atomic. The COE (Container Orchestration Engine) and keypair need to be specified as well:

magnum cluster-template-create k8s-cluster-template \
                       --image fedora-atomic-latest \
                       --keypair testkey \
                       --external-network public \
                       --dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8 \
                       --flavor m1.small \
                       --docker-volume-size 5 \
                       --network-driver flannel \
                       --coe kubernetes

Create a cluster. Use the ClusterTemplate name as a template for cluster creation. This cluster will result in one master kubernetes node and one minion node:

magnum cluster-create k8s-cluster \
                      --cluster-template k8s-cluster-template \
                      --node-count 1

Clusters will have an initial status of CREATE_IN_PROGRESS. Magnum will update the status to CREATE_COMPLETE when it is done creating the cluster. Do not create containers, pods, services, or replication controllers before magnum finishes creating the cluster. They will likely not be created, and may cause magnum to become confused.

The existing clusters can be listed as follows:

$ magnum cluster-list

+--------------------------------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-----------------+
| uuid                                 | name        | node_count | master_count | status          |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+------------+--------------------------------+
| 9dccb1e6-02dc-4e2b-b897-10656c5339ce | k8s-cluster | 1          | 1            | CREATE_COMPLETE |
+--------------------------------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-----------------+

More detailed information for a given cluster is obtained via:

magnum cluster-show k8s-cluster

After a cluster is created, you can dynamically add/remove node(s) to/from the cluster by updating the node_count attribute. For example, to add one more node:

magnum cluster-update k8s-cluster replace node_count=2

Clusters in the process of updating will have a status of UPDATE_IN_PROGRESS. Magnum will update the status to UPDATE_COMPLETE when it is done updating the cluster.

NOTE: Reducing node_count will remove all the existing pods on the nodes that are deleted. If you choose to reduce the node_count, magnum will first try to remove empty nodes with no pods running on them. If you reduce node_count by more than the number of empty nodes, magnum must remove nodes that have running pods on them. This action will delete those pods. We strongly recommend using a replication controller before reducing the node_count so any removed pods can be automatically recovered on your remaining nodes.

Heat can be used to see detailed information on the status of a stack or specific cluster:

To check the list of all cluster stacks:

openstack stack list

To check an individual cluster’s stack:

openstack stack show <stack-name or stack_id>

Monitoring cluster status in detail (e.g., creating, updating):

CLUSTER_HEAT_NAME=$(openstack stack list | \
                    awk "/\sk8s-cluster-/{print \$4}")
echo ${CLUSTER_HEAT_NAME}
openstack stack resource list ${CLUSTER_HEAT_NAME}

Building a Kubernetes Cluster - Based on CoreOS

You can create a Kubernetes cluster based on CoreOS as an alternative to Atomic. First, download the official CoreOS image:

wget http://beta.release.core-os.net/amd64-usr/current/coreos_production_openstack_image.img.bz2
bunzip2 coreos_production_openstack_image.img.bz2

Upload the image to glance:

openstack image create CoreOS  \
                    --public \
                    --disk-format=qcow2 \
                    --container-format=bare \
                    --property os_distro=coreos \
                    --file=coreos_production_openstack_image.img

Create a CoreOS Kubernetes ClusterTemplate, which is similar to the Atomic Kubernetes ClusterTemplate, except for pointing to a different image:

magnum cluster-template-create k8s-cluster-template-coreos \
                       --image CoreOS \
                       --keypair testkey \
                       --external-network public \
                       --dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8 \
                       --flavor m1.small \
                       --network-driver flannel \
                       --coe kubernetes

Create a CoreOS Kubernetes cluster. Use the CoreOS ClusterTemplate as a template for cluster creation:

magnum cluster-create k8s-cluster \
                  --cluster-template k8s-cluster-template-coreos \
                  --node-count 2

Using a Kubernetes Cluster

NOTE: For the following examples, only one minion node is required in the k8s cluster created previously.

Kubernetes provides a number of examples you can use to check that things are working. You may need to download kubectl binary for interacting with k8s cluster using:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.2.0/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

We first need to setup the certs to allow Kubernetes to authenticate our connection. Please refer to http://docs.openstack.org/developer/magnum/userguide.html#transport-layer-security for more info on using TLS keys/certs which are setup below.

To generate an RSA key, you will use the ‘genrsa’ command of the ‘openssl’ tool.:

openssl genrsa -out client.key 4096

To generate a CSR for client authentication, openssl requires a config file that specifies a few values.:

$ cat > client.conf << END
[req]
distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name
req_extensions     = req_ext
prompt = no
[req_distinguished_name]
CN = Your Name
[req_ext]
extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth
END

Once you have client.conf, you can run the openssl ‘req’ command to generate the CSR.:

openssl req -new -days 365 \
    -config client.conf \
    -key client.key \
    -out client.csr

Now that you have your client CSR, you can use the Magnum CLI to send it off to Magnum to get it signed and also download the signing cert.:

magnum ca-sign --cluster k8s-cluster --csr client.csr > client.crt
magnum ca-show --cluster k8s-cluster > ca.crt

Here’s how to set up the replicated redis example. Now we create a pod for the redis-master:

# Using cluster-config command for faster configuration
eval $(magnum cluster-config k8s-cluster)

# Test the cert and connection works
kubectl version

cd kubernetes/examples/redis
kubectl create -f ./redis-master.yaml

Now create a service to provide a discoverable endpoint for the redis sentinels in the cluster:

kubectl create -f ./redis-sentinel-service.yaml

To make it a replicated redis cluster create replication controllers for the redis slaves and sentinels:

sed -i 's/\(replicas: \)1/\1 2/' redis-controller.yaml
kubectl create -f ./redis-controller.yaml

sed -i 's/\(replicas: \)1/\1 2/' redis-sentinel-controller.yaml
kubectl create -f ./redis-sentinel-controller.yaml

Full lifecycle and introspection operations for each object are supported. For example, magnum cluster-create, magnum cluster-template-delete.

Now there are four redis instances (one master and three slaves) running across the cluster, replicating data between one another.

Run the cluster-show command to get the IP of the cluster host on which the redis-master is running:

$ magnum cluster-show k8s-cluster

+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property           | Value                                                      |
+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| status             | CREATE_COMPLETE                                            |
| uuid               | cff82cd0-189c-4ede-a9cb-2c0af6997709                       |
| stack_id           | 7947844a-8e18-4c79-b591-ecf0f6067641                       |
| status_reason      | Stack CREATE completed successfully                        |
| created_at         | 2016-05-26T17:45:57+00:00                                  |
| updated_at         | 2016-05-26T17:50:02+00:00                                  |
| create_timeout     | 60                                                         |
| api_address        | https://172.24.4.4:6443                                    |
| coe_version        | v1.2.0                                                     |
| cluster_template_id| e73298e7-e621-4d42-b35b-7a1952b97158                       |
| master_addresses   | ['172.24.4.6']                                             |
| node_count         | 1                                                          |
| node_addresses     | ['172.24.4.5']                                             |
| master_count       | 1                                                          |
| container_version  | 1.9.1                                                      |
| discovery_url      | https://discovery.etcd.io/4caaa65f297d4d49ef0a085a7aecf8e0 |
| name               | k8s-cluster                                                |
+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+

The output here indicates the redis-master is running on the cluster host with IP address 172.24.4.5. To access the redis master:

$ ssh fedora@172.24.4.5
$ REDIS_ID=$(sudo docker ps | grep redis:v1 | grep k8s_master | awk '{print $1}')
$ sudo docker exec -i -t $REDIS_ID redis-cli

127.0.0.1:6379> set replication:test true
OK
^D

$ exit  # Log out of the host

Log into one of the other container hosts and access a redis slave from it. You can use nova list to enumerate the kube-minions. For this example we will use the same host as above:

$ ssh fedora@172.24.4.5
$ REDIS_ID=$(sudo docker ps | grep redis:v1 | grep k8s_redis | awk '{print $1}')
$ sudo docker exec -i -t $REDIS_ID redis-cli

127.0.0.1:6379> get replication:test
"true"
^D

$ exit  # Log out of the host

Additional useful commands from a given minion:

sudo docker ps  # View Docker containers on this minion
kubectl get pods  # Get pods
kubectl get rc  # Get replication controllers
kubectl get svc  # Get services
kubectl get nodes  # Get nodes

After you finish using the cluster, you want to delete it. A cluster can be deleted as follows:

magnum cluster-delete k8s-cluster

Building and Using a Swarm Cluster

Create a ClusterTemplate. It is very similar to the Kubernetes ClusterTemplate, except for the absence of some Kubernetes-specific arguments and the use of ‘swarm’ as the COE:

magnum cluster-template-create swarm-cluster-template \
                       --image fedora-atomic-latest \
                       --keypair testkey \
                       --external-network public \
                       --dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8 \
                       --flavor m1.small \
                       --docker-volume-size 5 \
                       --coe swarm

NOTE: If you are using Magnum behind a firewall then refer to http://docs.openstack.org/developer/magnum/magnum-proxy.html

Finally, create the cluster. Use the ClusterTemplate ‘swarm-cluster-template’ as a template for cluster creation. This cluster will result in one swarm manager node and two extra agent nodes:

magnum cluster-create swarm-cluster \
                      --cluster-template swarm-cluster-template \
                      --node-count 2

Now that we have a swarm cluster we can start interacting with it:

$ magnum cluster-show swarm-cluster

+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property           | Value                                                      |
+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| status             | CREATE_COMPLETE                                            |
| uuid               | eda91c1e-6103-45d4-ab09-3f316310fa8e                       |
| stack_id           | 7947844a-8e18-4c79-b591-ecf0f6067641                       |
| status_reason      | Stack CREATE completed successfully                        |
| created_at         | 2015-04-20T19:05:27+00:00                                  |
| updated_at         | 2015-04-20T19:06:08+00:00                                  |
| create_timeout     | 60                                                         |
| api_address        | https://172.24.4.4:6443                                    |
| coe_version        | 1.2.5                                                      |
| cluster_template_id| e73298e7-e621-4d42-b35b-7a1952b97158                       |
| master_addresses   | ['172.24.4.6']                                             |
| node_count         | 2                                                          |
| node_addresses     | ['172.24.4.5']                                             |
| master_count       | 1                                                          |
| container_version  | 1.9.1                                                      |
| discovery_url      | https://discovery.etcd.io/4caaa65f297d4d49ef0a085a7aecf8e0 |
| name               | swarm-cluster                                              |
+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+

We now need to setup the docker CLI to use the swarm cluster we have created with the appropriate credentials.

Create a dir to store certs and cd into it. The DOCKER_CERT_PATH env variable is consumed by docker which expects ca.pem, key.pem and cert.pem to be in that directory.:

export DOCKER_CERT_PATH=~/.docker
mkdir -p ${DOCKER_CERT_PATH}
cd ${DOCKER_CERT_PATH}

Generate an RSA key.:

openssl genrsa -out key.pem 4096

Create openssl config to help generated a CSR.:

$ cat > client.conf << END
[req]
distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name
req_extensions     = req_ext
prompt = no
[req_distinguished_name]
CN = Your Name
[req_ext]
extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth
END

Run the openssl ‘req’ command to generate the CSR.:

openssl req -new -days 365 \
    -config client.conf \
    -key key.pem \
    -out client.csr

Now that you have your client CSR use the Magnum CLI to get it signed and also download the signing cert.:

magnum ca-sign --cluster swarm-cluster --csr client.csr > cert.pem
magnum ca-show --cluster swarm-cluster > ca.pem

Set the CLI to use TLS . This env var is consumed by docker.:

export DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY="1"

Set the correct host to use which is the public ip address of swarm API server endpoint. This env var is consumed by docker.:

export DOCKER_HOST=$(magnum cluster-show swarm-cluster | awk '/ api_address /{print substr($4,7)}')

Next we will create a container in this swarm cluster. This container will ping the address 8.8.8.8 four times:

docker run --rm -it cirros:latest ping -c 4 8.8.8.8

You should see a similar output to:

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=0 ttl=40 time=25.513 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=1 ttl=40 time=25.348 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=2 ttl=40 time=25.226 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=3 ttl=40 time=25.275 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 25.226/25.340/25.513 ms

Building and Using a Mesos Cluster

Provisioning a mesos cluster requires a Ubuntu-based image with some packages pre-installed. To build and upload such image, please refer to http://docs.openstack.org/developer/magnum/userguide.html#building-mesos-image

Alternatively, you can download and upload a pre-built image:

wget https://fedorapeople.org/groups/magnum/ubuntu-mesos-latest.qcow2
openstack image create ubuntu-mesos --public \
                    --disk-format=qcow2 --container-format=bare \
                    --property os_distro=ubuntu --file=ubuntu-mesos-latest.qcow2

Then, create a ClusterTemplate by using ‘mesos’ as the COE, with the rest of arguments similar to the Kubernetes ClusterTemplate:

magnum cluster-template-create mesos-cluster-template --image ubuntu-mesos \
                       --keypair testkey \
                       --external-network public \
                       --dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8 \
                       --flavor m1.small \
                       --coe mesos

Finally, create the cluster. Use the ClusterTemplate ‘mesos-cluster-template’ as a template for cluster creation. This cluster will result in one mesos master node and two mesos slave nodes:

magnum cluster-create mesos-cluster \
                      --cluster-template mesos-cluster-template \
                      --node-count 2

Now that we have a mesos cluster we can start interacting with it. First we need to make sure the cluster’s status is ‘CREATE_COMPLETE’:

$ magnum cluster-show mesos-cluster

+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property           | Value                                                      |
+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| status             | CREATE_COMPLETE                                            |
| uuid               | ff727f0d-72ca-4e2b-9fef-5ec853d74fdf                       |
| stack_id           | 7947844a-8e18-4c79-b591-ecf0f6067641                       |
| status_reason      | Stack CREATE completed successfully                        |
| created_at         | 2015-06-09T20:21:43+00:00                                  |
| updated_at         | 2015-06-09T20:28:18+00:00                                  |
| create_timeout     | 60                                                         |
| api_address        | https://172.24.4.115:6443                                  |
| coe_version        | -                                                          |
| cluster_template_id| 92dbda62-32d4-4435-88fc-8f42d514b347                       |
| master_addresses   | ['172.24.4.115']                                           |
| node_count         | 2                                                          |
| node_addresses     | ['172.24.4.116', '172.24.4.117']                           |
| master_count       | 1                                                          |
| container_version  | 1.9.1                                                      |
| discovery_url      | None                                                       |
| name               | mesos-cluster                                              |
+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+

Next we will create a container in this cluster by using the REST API of Marathon. This container will ping the address 8.8.8.8:

$ cat > mesos.json << END
{
  "container": {
    "type": "DOCKER",
    "docker": {
      "image": "cirros"
    }
  },
  "id": "ubuntu",
  "instances": 1,
  "cpus": 0.5,
  "mem": 512,
  "uris": [],
  "cmd": "ping 8.8.8.8"
}
END
$ MASTER_IP=$(magnum cluster-show mesos-cluster | awk '/ api_address /{print $4}')
$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    http://${MASTER_IP}:8080/v2/apps -d@mesos.json

To check application and task status:

$ curl http://${MASTER_IP}:8080/v2/apps
$ curl http://${MASTER_IP}:8080/v2/tasks

You can access to the Mesos web page at http://<master>:5050/ and Marathon web console at http://<master>:8080/.

Building Developer Documentation

To build the documentation locally (e.g., to test documentation changes before uploading them for review) chdir to the magnum root folder and run tox:

tox -edocs

NOTE: The first time you run this will take some extra time as it creates a virtual environment to run in.

When complete, the documentation can be accessed from:

doc/build/html/index.html