Open Stack

On 7/23/18 12:50 PM, Ricardo Noriega De Soto wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I need to deploy the following Neutron BGPVPN heat plugin.
> 
>     https://docs.openstack.org/networking-bgpvpn/ocata/heat.html
> 
> 
> This will allow users, to create Heat templates with BGPVPN resources. 
> Right now, BGPVPN service plugin is only available in 
> neutron-server-opendaylight Kolla image:
> 
>     https://github.com/openstack/kolla/blob/master/docker/neutron/neutron-server-opendaylight/Dockerfile.j2#L13
> 
> 
> It would make sense to add right there the python-networking-bgpvpn-heat 
> package. Is that correct? Heat exposes a parameter to configure plugins 

You can override that via neutron_server_opendaylight_packages_append in
tripleo common, like [0]

[0] 
http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-common/tree/container-images/tripleo_kolla_template_overrides.j2#n76 


> ( HeatEnginePluginDirs), that corresponds to plugins_dir parameter in 
> heat.conf.
> 
> What is the issue here?
> 
> Heat will try to search any available plugin in the path determined by 
> HeatEnginePluginDirs, however, the heat plugin is located in a separate 
> container (neutron_api). How should we tackle this? I see no other 
> example of this type of integration.

Here is the most recent example [1] of inter-containers state sharing 
for Ironic containers. I think something similar should be done for 
docker/services/heat* yaml files.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/584265/

> 
> AFAIK, /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages is not exposed to the host as a 
> mounted volume, so how is heat supposed to find bgpvpn heat plugin?
> 
> Thanks for your advice.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ricardo Noriega
> 
> Senior Software Engineer - NFV Partner Engineer | Office of Technology 
>   | Red Hat
> irc: rnoriega @freenode
> 
> 
> __________________________________________________________________________
> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Unsubscribe: OpenStack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
> 


-- 
Best regards,
Bogdan Dobrelya,
Irc #bogdando