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Hi Aditya,

First of all, please remember to always CC the mailing list so that
other users can benefit from the answers.

Regarding the question at hand - the same documentation (starting from
the beginning of the page) describes the kolla-build tool, including
the usual way to install it. Remember to install the version for your
OpenStack release - the right source of versions is [1].
The kolla-build tool is the tool to build the images. I assume so far
you have used the prebuilt ones. This time you will have to build your
own because you want to add software inside of them.
You might also be interested in deploying your own local registry. The
simplest way to do so is via [2] but understand it is not
production-ready unless in a strictly isolated network (for other use
cases I generally recommend Harbor [3]).

[1] https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/kolla/
[2] https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/yoga/user/multinode.html#deploy-a-registry
[3] https://goharbor.io/

Kind regards,
Radek
-yoctozepto

On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 21:43, Aditya Sathish <saditya at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Radek,
>
> This was incredibly helpful. However, I couldn't find where the kolla-build.conf file is and should I create my own, where I have to add this.
>
> Regards,
> Aditya.
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 3:10 PM Radosław Piliszek <radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I believe you want to first install the plugin in the container image.
>> The section on plugins might be of interest to you. [1]
>>
>> [1] https://docs.openstack.org/kolla/yoga/admin/image-building.html#plugin-functionality
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Radek
>> -yoctozepto
>>
>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 20:31, Aditya Sathish <saditya at vt.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am trying to use an out-of-tree ML2 neutron plugin with OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible but I am having a hard time figuring out how to go about it.
>> >
>> > For example, this is my repository for the plugin: https://github.com/adityasathis/networking-onos.
>> >
>> > I have made changes to the deployment YML files to allow configuration for this new neutron plugin from the global.yml file. However, I am not able to figure out how to copy over my plugin files and install them on the controller node.
>> >
>> > I came across the commit: https://opendev.org/openstack/kolla-ansible/commit/418cb52767270d85e28a6f3027c561f47b805d9d which, I think, does what I'm looking to do and so I kept the networking-onos directory (with the setup.py in it) in the /etc/kolla/config/neutron/plugins directory. The deploy script is able to detect the file in the "Checking for ML2 plugins" step however, I'm not able to copy it anywhere in the "Copying ML2 plugin" step. Am I missing something?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Aditya.