[Openstack-operators] [OCTAVIA][KOLLA] - Amphora to control plan communication question.

Flint WALRUS gael.therond at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 07:31:52 UTC 2018


Ok ok, I’ll have a look at the guidelines and make some documentation patch
proposal once our POC will be working fine.

Do I have to propose these patch through storyboard or launchpad ?

Oh BTW, one last question, is there an official Octavia Amphora pre-build
iso?

Thanks for the link.
Le mer. 1 août 2018 à 17:57, Michael Johnson <johnsomor at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi Flint,
>
> Yes, our documentation follows the OpenStack documentation rules. It
> is in RestructuredText format.
>
> The documentation team has some guides here:
> https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/rst-conv.html
>
> However we can also help with that during the review process.
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:03 PM Flint WALRUS <gael.therond at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ok sweet! Many thanks ! Awesome, I’ll be able to continue our deployment
> with peace in mind.
> >
> > Regarding the documentation patch, does it need to get a specific format
> or following some guidelines? I’ll compulse all my annotations and push a
> patch for those points that would need clarification and a little bit of
> formatting (layout issue).
> >
> > Thanks for this awesome support Michael!
> > Le mer. 1 août 2018 à 07:57, Michael Johnson <johnsomor at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> >>
> >> No worries, happy to share. Answers below.
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:49 PM Flint WALRUS <gael.therond at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi Michael,
> >> >
> >> > Oh ok! That config-drive trick was the missing part! Thanks a lot! Is
> there a release target for the API vs config-drive thing? I’ll have a look
> at an instance as soon as I’ll be able to log into one of my amphora.
> >>
> >> No I have no timeline for the amphora-agent config update API.  Either
> >> way, the initial config will be installed via config drive. The API is
> >> intended for runtime updates.
> >> >
> >> > By the way, three sub-questions remains:
> >> >
> >> > 1°/ - What is the best place to push some documentation improvement ?
> >>
> >> Patches are welcome!  All of our documentation is included in the
> >> source code repository here:
> >> https://github.com/openstack/octavia/tree/master/doc/source
> >>
> >> Our patches follow the normal OpenStack gerrit review process
> >> (OpenStack does not use pull requests).
> >>
> >> > 2°/ - Is the amphora-agent an auto-generated file at image build time
> or do I need to create one and give it to the diskimage-builder process?
> >>
> >> The amphora-agent code itself is installed automatically with the
> >> diskimage-builder process via the "amphora-agent" element.
> >> The amphora-agent configuration file is only installed at amphora boot
> >> time by nova using the config drive capability. It is also
> >> auto-generated by the controller.
> >>
> >> > 3°/ - The amphora agent source-code is available at
> https://github.com/openstack/octavia/tree/master/octavia/amphorae/backends/agent
> isn’t?
> >>
> >> Yes, the agent code that runs in the amphora instance is all under
> >>
> https://github.com/openstack/octavia/tree/master/octavia/amphorae/backends
> >> in the main octavia repository.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Sorry for the questions volume, but I prefer to really understand the
> underlying mechanisms before we goes live with the solution.
> >> >
> >> > G.
> >> >
> >> > Le mer. 1 août 2018 à 02:36, Michael Johnson <johnsomor at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi Flint,
> >> >>
> >> >> Happy to help.
> >> >>
> >> >> Right now the list of controller endpoints is pushed at boot time and
> >> >> loaded into the amphora via config drive/nova.
> >> >> In the future we plan to be able to update this list via the amphora
> >> >> API, but it has not been developed yet.
> >> >>
> >> >> I am pretty sure centos is getting the config file as our gate job
> >> >> that runs with centos 7 amphora has been passing. It should be in the
> >> >> same /etc/octavia/amphora-agent.conf location as the ubuntu based
> >> >> amphora.
> >> >>
> >> >> Michael
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:05 AM Flint WALRUS <
> gael.therond at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hi Michael, thanks a lot for that explanation, it’s actually how I
> envisioned the flow.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I’ll have to produce a diagram for my peers understanding, I maybe
> can share it with you.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > There is still one point that seems to be a little bit odd to me.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > How the amphora agent know where to find out the healthManagers
> and worker services? Is that because the worker is sending the agent some
> catalog informations or because we set that at diskimage-create time?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If so, I think the Centos based amphora is missing the agent.conf
> because currently my vms doesn’t have any.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Once again thanks for your help!
> >> >> > Le mar. 31 juil. 2018 à 18:15, Michael Johnson <
> johnsomor at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hi Flint,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> We don't have a logical network diagram at this time (it's still
> on
> >> >> >> the to-do list), but I can talk you through it.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> The Octavia worker, health manager, and housekeeping need to be
> able
> >> >> >> to reach the amphora (service VM at this point) over the
> lb-mgmt-net
> >> >> >> on TCP 9443. It knows the amphora IP addresses on the lb-mgmt-net
> via
> >> >> >> the database and the information we save from the compute driver
> (I.e.
> >> >> >> what IP was assigned to the instance).
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> The Octavia API process does not need to be connected to the
> >> >> >> lb-mgmt-net at this time. It only connects the the messaging bus
> and
> >> >> >> the Octavia database. Provider drivers may have other connectivity
> >> >> >> requirements for the Octavia API.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> The amphorae also send UDP packets back to the health manager on
> port
> >> >> >> 5555. This is the heartbeat packet from the amphora. It contains
> the
> >> >> >> health and statistics from that amphora. It know it's list of
> health
> >> >> >> manager endpoints from the configuration file
> >> >> >> "controller_ip_port_list"
> >> >> >> (
> https://docs.openstack.org/octavia/latest/configuration/configref.html#health_manager.controller_ip_port_list
> ).
> >> >> >> Each amphora will rotate through that list of endpoints to reduce
> the
> >> >> >> chance of a network split impacting the heartbeat messages.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> This is the only traffic that passed over this network. All of it
> is
> >> >> >> IP based and can be routed (it does not require L2 connectivity).
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Michael
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:00 AM Flint WALRUS <
> gael.therond at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Hi Folks,
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > I'm currently deploying the Octavia component into our testing
> environment which is based on KOLLA.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > So far I'm quite enjoying it as it is pretty much straight
> forward (Except for some documentation pitfalls), but I'm now facing a
> weird and hard to debug situation.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > I actually have a hard time to understand how Amphora are
> communicating back and forth with the Control Plan components.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > From my understanding, as soon as I create a new LB, the
> Control Plan is spawning an instance using the configured Octavia Flavor
> and Image type, attach it to the LB-MGMT-NET and to the user provided
> subnet.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > What I think I'm misunderstanding is the discussion that
> follows between the amphora and the different components such as the
> HealthManager/HouseKeeper, the API and the Worker.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > How is the amphora agent able to found my control plan? Is the
> HealthManager or the Octavia Worker initiating the communication to the
> Amphora on port 9443 and so give the agent the API/Control plan internalURL?
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > If anyone have a diagram of the workflow I would be more than
> happy ^^
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Thanks a lot in advance to anyone willing to help :D
> >> >> >> >
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