Table of Contents

• Configuring the Telemetry (ceilometer) service (optional)
  • Setting up a MongoDB database for ceilometer
  • Configuring the hosts
  • Configuring the hosts for an HA deployment
  • Configuring the user data

Default variables

## Verbosity Options
debug: False

# Set the package install state for distribution packages
# Options are 'present' and 'latest'
ceilometer_package_state: "latest"

## Toggle developer mode
ceilometer_developer_mode: false

## The git source/branch
ceilometer_git_repo: https://git.openstack.org/openstack/ceilometer
ceilometer_git_install_branch: newton-eol

## The packages to build from source (used in developer mode)
ceilometer_developer_constraints:
  - "git+{{ ceilometer_git_repo }}@{{ ceilometer_git_install_branch }}#egg=ceilometer"

# Name of the virtual env to deploy into
ceilometer_venv_tag: untagged
ceilometer_bin: "/openstack/venvs/ceilometer-{{ ceilometer_venv_tag }}/bin"

# URL of the pre-built virtualenv
ceilometer_venv_download_url: http://127.0.0.1/venvs/untagged/ubuntu/ceilometer.tgz

## System info
ceilometer_system_user_name: ceilometer
ceilometer_system_group_name: ceilometer
ceilometer_system_shell: /bin/false
ceilometer_system_comment: ceilometer system user
ceilometer_system_user_home: "/var/lib/{{ ceilometer_system_user_name }}"

## DB info
ceilometer_database_name: ceilometer
ceilometer_database_user: ceilometer
ceilometer_db_type: mongodb
ceilometer_db_ip: localhost
ceilometer_db_port: 27017
ceilometer_connection_string: "{{ ceilometer_db_type }}://{{ ceilometer_database_user }}:{{ ceilometer_container_db_password }}@{{ ceilometer_db_ip }}:{{ ceilometer_db_port }}/{{ ceilometer_database_name }}"

## Apache setup
ceilometer_apache_log_level: info
ceilometer_apache_servertokens: "Prod"
ceilometer_apache_serversignature: "Off"
ceilometer_wsgi_threads: 10
ceilometer_wsgi_processes: "{{ (ansible_processor_vcpus | int > 0) | ternary (ansible_processor_vcpus, 1) * 2}}"

## RabbitMQ info

## Configuration for RPC communications
ceilometer_rabbitmq_userid: ceilometer
ceilometer_rabbitmq_vhost: /ceilometer
ceilometer_rabbitmq_port: 5672
# Comma separated list of hosts
ceilometer_rabbitmq_servers: 127.0.0.1
ceilometer_rabbitmq_use_ssl: False
# Inventory group containing the hosts for the cluster
ceilometer_rabbitmq_host_group: "rabbitmq_all"

#Ceilometer services info
ceilometer_role_name: admin

## Service Type and Data
ceilometer_service_region: RegionOne
ceilometer_service_name: ceilometer
ceilometer_service_port: 8777
ceilometer_service_proto: http
ceilometer_service_type: metering
ceilometer_service_description: "Ceilometer Service"
ceilometer_service_user_name: ceilometer
ceilometer_service_tenant_name: service
ceilometer_service_project_name: service
ceilometer_service_project_domain_id: default
ceilometer_service_user_domain_id: default
ceilometer_service_publicuri: "{{ ceilometer_service_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ ceilometer_service_port }}"
ceilometer_service_publicurl: "{{ ceilometer_service_publicuri }}"
ceilometer_service_internaluri: "{{ ceilometer_service_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ ceilometer_service_port }}"
ceilometer_service_internalurl: "{{ ceilometer_service_internaluri }}"
ceilometer_service_adminuri: "{{ ceilometer_service_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ ceilometer_service_port }}"
ceilometer_service_adminurl: "{{ ceilometer_service_adminuri }}"


ceilometer_service_in_ldap: false

## Ceilometer config
# If the following variables are unset in user_variables, the value set will be half the number of available VCPUs
# ceilometer_api_workers: 1
# ceilometer_collector_workers: 1
# ceilometer_notification_workers: 1

# Enable/Disable Ceilometer per service
glance_ceilometer_enabled: false
nova_ceilometer_enabled: false
cinder_ceilometer_enabled: false
neutron_ceilometer_enabled: false
heat_ceilometer_enabled: false
keystone_ceilometer_enabled: false
swift_ceilometer_enabled: false
sahara_ceilometer_enabled: false

# Enable/Disable Telemetry partner services in Ceilometer
# Defaults to True if the service is deployed.
ceilometer_aodh_enabled: false
ceilometer_gnocchi_enabled: false

# Sampling interval for ceilometer-polling services
ceilometer_sample_interval: 600
ceilometer_meter_sample_interval: "{{ ceilometer_sample_interval }}"
ceilometer_cpu_source_sample_interval: "{{ ceilometer_sample_interval }}"
ceilometer_disk_source_sample_interval: "{{ ceilometer_sample_interval }}"
ceilometer_network_source_sample_interval: "{{ ceilometer_sample_interval }}"

## Keystone authentication middleware
ceilometer_keystone_auth_plugin: password

# ceilometer packages that must be installed before anything else
ceilometer_requires_pip_packages:
  - httplib2
  - python-keystoneclient # Keystoneclient needed to OSA keystone lib
  - virtualenv
  - virtualenv-tools

# Common pip packages
ceilometer_pip_packages:
  - ceilometer
  - ceilometermiddleware
  - gnocchiclient
  - libvirt-python
  - oslo.db
  - pycrypto
  - PyMySQL
  - pymongo
  - python-ceilometerclient
  - python-memcached
  - tooz
  - warlock

ceilometer_agent_init_overrides: {}
ceilometer_collector_init_overrides: {}
ceilometer_polling_init_overrides: {}

## Service Name-Group Mapping
ceilometer_services:
  ceilometer-collector:
    group:
      - ceilometer_collector
    init_config_overrides: "{{ ceilometer_collector_init_overrides }}"
    service_name: ceilometer-collector
  ceilometer-agent-notification:
    group:
      - ceilometer_agent_notification
    init_config_overrides: "{{ ceilometer_agent_init_overrides }}"
    service_name: ceilometer-agent-notification
  ceilometer-polling:
    group:
      - ceilometer_agent_central
      - ceilometer_agent_compute
    init_config_overrides: "{{ ceilometer_polling_init_overrides }}"
    service_name: ceilometer-polling

ceilometer_required_secrets:
  - memcached_encryption_key
  - ceilometer_telemetry_secret
  - ceilometer_rabbitmq_password
  - ceilometer_service_password

# This variable is used by the repo_build process to determine
# which host group to check for members of before building the
# pip packages required by this role. The value is picked up
# by the py_pkgs lookup.
ceilometer_role_project_group: ceilometer_all

## Tunable overrides
ceilometer_policy_overrides: {}
ceilometer_rootwrap_conf_overrides: {}
ceilometer_ceilometer_conf_overrides: {}
ceilometer_api_paste_ini_overrides: {}
ceilometer_event_definitions_yaml_overrides: {}
ceilometer_event_pipeline_yaml_overrides: {}
ceilometer_pipeline_yaml_overrides: {}
ceilometer_gnocci_resources_yaml_overrides: {}
ceilometer_osprofiler_event_definitions_yaml_overrides: {}
ceilometer_loadbalancer_v2_meter_definitions_yaml_overrides: {}

Example playbook

- name: Install ceilometer server
  hosts: ceilometer_all
  user: root
  roles:
    - { role: "os_ceilometer", tags: [ "ceilometer-config", "ceilometer-install" ] }
  vars:
    external_lb_vip_address: 172.16.24.1
    internal_lb_vip_address: 192.168.0.1

Tags

This role supports two tags: ceilometer-install and ceilometer-config. The ceilometer-install tag can be used to install and upgrade. The ceilometer-config tag can be used to maintain the configuration of the service.