Octavia¶

Octavia provides load balancing as a service. This guide covers configuration of Octavia for the Amphora driver. See the Octavia documentation for full details. The installation guide is a useful reference.

Resources¶

Currently in Kolla Ansible it is necessary to manually register the OpenStack resources required by Octavia. Kolla Ansible aims to automate this in the future.

Note

In Train and earlier releases, resources should be registered in the admin project. This is configured via octavia_service_auth_project, and may be set to service to avoid a breaking change when upgrading to Ussuri. Changing the project on an existing system requires at a minimum registering a new security group in the new project. Ideally the flavor and network should be recreated in the new project, although this will impact existing Amphorae.

All resources should be registered in the service project. This can be done as follows:

source admin-openrc.sh
export OS_USERNAME=octavia
export OS_PASSWORD=<octavia keystone password>
export OS_PROJECT_NAME=service
export OS_TENANT_NAME=service

You can find the Octavia password in passwords.yml.

Amphora image¶

It is necessary to build an Amphora image. On CentOS / RHEL 8:

sudo dnf -y install epel-release
sudo dnf install -y debootstrap

On Ubuntu:

sudo apt -y install debootstrap

Acquire the Octavia source code:

git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/octavia -b <branch>

Install diskimage-builder, ideally in a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv dib-venv
source dib-venv/bin/activate
pip install diskimage-builder

Create the Amphora image:

cd octavia/diskimage-create
./diskimage-create.sh

openstack image create amphora-x64-haproxy.qcow2 --container-format bare --disk-format qcow2 --private --tag amphora --file amphora-x64-haproxy.qcow2

Octavia uses the tag to determine which image to use.

Amphora flavor¶

openstack flavor create --vcpus 1 --ram 1024 --disk 2 "amphora" --private

Make a note of the ID of the flavor, or specify one via --id.

Keypair¶

openstack keypair create --public-key <path to octavia public key> octavia_ssh_key

Network and subnet¶

Register the management network and subnet in Neutron. This must be a network that is accessible from the controllers. Typically a VLAN provider network is used. In that case it will be necessary to enable Neutron provider networks.

OCTAVIA_MGMT_SUBNET=192.168.43.0/24
OCTAVIA_MGMT_SUBNET_START=192.168.43.10
OCTAVIA_MGMT_SUBNET_END=192.168.43.254

openstack network create lb-mgmt-net --provider-network-type vlan --provider-segment 107  --provider-physical-network physnet1
openstack subnet create --subnet-range $OCTAVIA_MGMT_SUBNET --allocation-pool \
  start=$OCTAVIA_MGMT_SUBNET_START,end=$OCTAVIA_MGMT_SUBNET_END \
  --network lb-mgmt-net lb-mgmt-subnet

Make a note of the ID of the network.

Security group¶

openstack security group create lb-mgmt-sec-grp
openstack security group rule create --protocol icmp lb-mgmt-sec-grp
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 22 lb-mgmt-sec-grp
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 9443 lb-mgmt-sec-grp

Make a note of the ID of the security group.

Kolla Ansible configuration¶

Globals¶

The following options should be added to globals.yml.

Enable the Octavia service:

enable_octavia: yes

If using a VLAN for the Octavia management network, enable Neutron provider networks:

enable_neutron_provider_networks: yes

Configure the name of the network interface on the controllers used to access the Octavia management network. If using a VLAN provider network, ensure that the traffic is also bridged to Open vSwitch on the controllers.

octavia_network_interface: <network interface on controllers>

Set the IDs of the resources registered previously:

octavia_amp_boot_network_list: <ID of lb-mgmt-net>
octavia_amp_secgroup_list: <ID of lb-mgmt-sec-grp>
octavia_amp_flavor_id: <ID of amphora flavor>

Passwords¶

The following option should be set in passwords.yml, matching the password used to encrypt the CA key:

octavia_ca_password: <CA key password>

Certificates¶

Follow the octavia documentation to generate certificates for Amphorae. These should be copied to the Kolla Ansible configuration as follows:

cp client_ca/certs/ca.cert.pem /etc/kolla/config/octavia/client_ca.cert.pem
cp server_ca/certs/ca.cert.pem /etc/kolla/config/octavia/server_ca.cert.pem
cp server_ca/private/ca.key.pem /etc/kolla/config/octavia/server_ca.key.pem
cp client_ca/private/client.cert-and-key.pem /etc/kolla/config/octavia/client.cert-and-key.pem

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