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Hello Mark,
let me to verify if I understood your method.

You have old controllers,haproxy,mariadb and nova computes.
You installed three new controllers but kolla.ansible inventory contains
old mariadb and old rabbit servers.
You are deployng single service on new controllers staring with glance.
When you deploy glance on new controllers, it changes the glance endpoint
on old mariadb db ?
Regards
Ignazio

Il giorno gio 27 giu 2019 alle ore 10:52 Mark Goddard <mark at stackhpc.com>
ha scritto:

> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 19:34, Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > Anyone have tried to migrate an existing openstack installation to kolla
> containers?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm aware of two people currently working on that. Gregory Orange and
> one of my colleagues, Pierre Riteau. Pierre is away currently, so I
> hope he doesn't mind me quoting him from an email to Gregory.
>
> Mark
>
> "I am indeed working on a similar migration using Kolla Ansible with
> Kayobe, starting from a non-containerised OpenStack deployment based
> on CentOS RPMs.
> Existing OpenStack services are deployed across several controller
> nodes and all sit behind HAProxy, including for internal endpoints.
> We have additional controller nodes that we use to deploy
> containerised services. If you don't have the luxury of additional
> nodes, it will be more difficult as you will need to avoid processes
> clashing when listening on the same port.
>
> The method I am using resembles your second suggestion, however I am
> deploying only one containerised service at a time, in order to
> validate each of them independently.
> I use the --tags option of kolla-ansible to restrict Ansible to
> specific roles, and when I am happy with the resulting configuration I
> update HAProxy to point to the new controllers.
>
> As long as the configuration matches, this should be completely
> transparent for purely HTTP-based services like Glance. You need to be
> more careful with services that include components listening for RPC,
> such as Nova: if the new nova.conf is incorrect and you've deployed a
> nova-conductor that uses it, you could get failed instances launches.
> Some roles depend on others: if you are deploying the
> neutron-openvswitch-agent, you need to run the openvswitch role as
> well.
>
> I suggest starting with migrating Glance as it doesn't have any
> internal services and is easy to validate. Note that properly
> migrating Keystone requires keeping existing Fernet keys around, so
> any token stays valid until the time it is expected to stop working
> (which is fairly complex, see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla-ansible/+bug/1809469).
>
> While initially I was using an approach similar to your first
> suggestion, it can have side effects since Kolla Ansible uses these
> variables when templating configuration. As an example, most services
> will only have notifications enabled if enable_ceilometer is true.
>
> I've added existing control plane nodes to the Kolla Ansible inventory
> as separate groups, which allows me to use the existing database and
> RabbitMQ for the containerised services.
> For example, instead of:
>
> [mariadb:children]
> control
>
> you may have:
>
> [mariadb:children]
> oldcontrol_db
>
> I still have to perform the migration of these underlying services to
> the new control plane, I will let you know if there is any hurdle.
>
> A few random things to note:
>
> - if run on existing control plane hosts, the baremetal role removes
> some packages listed in `redhat_pkg_removals` which can trigger the
> removal of OpenStack dependencies using them! I've changed this
> variable to an empty list.
> - compare your existing deployment with a Kolla Ansible one to check
> for differences in endpoints, configuration files, database users,
> service users, etc. For Heat, Kolla uses the domain heat_user_domain,
> while your existing deployment may use another one (and this is
> hardcoded in the Kolla Heat image). Kolla Ansible uses the "service"
> project while a couple of deployments I worked with were using
> "services". This shouldn't matter, except there was a bug in Kolla
> which prevented it from setting the roles correctly:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla/+bug/1791896 (now fixed in latest
> Rocky and Queens images)
> - the ml2_conf.ini generated for Neutron generates physical network
> names like physnet1, physnet2… you may want to override
> bridge_mappings completely.
> - although sometimes it could be easier to change your existing
> deployment to match Kolla Ansible settings, rather than configure
> Kolla Ansible to match your deployment."
>
> > Thanks
> > Ignazio
> >
>
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