[Openstack-operators] [octavia][rocky] Octavia and VxLAN without DVR

Florian Engelmann florian.engelmann at everyware.ch
Wed Oct 24 07:14:53 UTC 2018


Ohoh - thank you for your empathy :)
And those great details about how to setup this mgmt network.
I will try to do so this afternoon but solving that routing "puzzle" 
(virtual network to control nodes) I will need our network guys to help 
me out...

But I will need to tell all Amphorae a static route to the gateway that 
is routing to the control nodes?


Am 10/23/18 um 6:57 PM schrieb Erik McCormick:
> So in your other email you said asked if there was a guide for
> deploying it with Kolla ansible...
> 
> Oh boy. No there's not. I don't know if you've seen my recent mails on
> Octavia, but I am going through this deployment process with
> kolla-ansible right now and it is lacking in a few areas.
> 
> If you plan to use different CA certificates for client and server in
> Octavia, you'll need to add that into the playbook. Presently it only
> copies over ca_01.pem, cacert.key, and client.pem and uses them for
> everything. I was completely unable to make it work with only one CA
> as I got some SSL errors. It passes gate though, so I aasume it must
> work? I dunno.
> 
> Networking comments and a really messy kolla-ansible / octavia how-to below...
> 
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:09 AM Florian Engelmann
> <florian.engelmann at everyware.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Am 10/23/18 um 3:20 PM schrieb Erik McCormick:
>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 7:53 AM Florian Engelmann
>>> <florian.engelmann at everyware.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We did test Octavia with Pike (DVR deployment) and everything was
>>>> working right our of the box. We changed our underlay network to a
>>>> Layer3 spine-leaf network now and did not deploy DVR as we don't wanted
>>>> to have that much cables in a rack.
>>>>
>>>> Octavia is not working right now as the lb-mgmt-net does not exist on
>>>> the compute nodes nor does a br-ex.
>>>>
>>>> The control nodes running
>>>>
>>>> octavia_worker
>>>> octavia_housekeeping
>>>> octavia_health_manager
>>>> octavia_api
>>>>
Amphorae-VMs, z.b.

lb-mgmt-net 172.16.0.0/16 default GW
>>>> and as far as I understood octavia_worker, octavia_housekeeping and
>>>> octavia_health_manager have to talk to the amphora instances. But the
>>>> control nodes are spread over three different leafs. So each control
>>>> node in a different L2 domain.
>>>>
>>>> So the question is how to deploy a lb-mgmt-net network in our setup?
>>>>
>>>> - Compute nodes have no "stretched" L2 domain
>>>> - Control nodes, compute nodes and network nodes are in L3 networks like
>>>> api, storage, ...
>>>> - Only network nodes are connected to a L2 domain (with a separated NIC)
>>>> providing the "public" network
>>>>
>>> You'll need to add a new bridge to your compute nodes and create a
>>> provider network associated with that bridge. In my setup this is
>>> simply a flat network tied to a tagged interface. In your case it
>>> probably makes more sense to make a new VNI and create a vxlan
>>> provider network. The routing in your switches should handle the rest.
>>
>> Ok that's what I try right now. But I don't get how to setup something
>> like a VxLAN provider Network. I thought only vlan and flat is supported
>> as provider network? I guess it is not possible to use the tunnel
>> interface that is used for tenant networks?
>> So I have to create a separated VxLAN on the control and compute nodes like:
>>
>> # ip link add vxoctavia type vxlan id 42 dstport 4790 group 239.1.1.1
>> dev vlan3535 ttl 5
>> # ip addr add 172.16.1.11/20 dev vxoctavia
>> # ip link set vxoctavia up
>>
>> and use it like a flat provider network, true?
>>
> This is a fine way of doing things, but it's only half the battle.
> You'll need to add a bridge on the compute nodes and bind it to that
> new interface. Something like this if you're using openvswitch:
> 
> docker exec openvswitch_db
> /usr/local/bin/kolla_ensure_openvswitch_configured br-mgmt vxoctavia
> 
> Also you'll want to remove the IP address from that interface as it's
> going to be a bridge. Think of it like your public (br-ex) interface
> on your network nodes.
> 
>  From there you'll need to update the bridge mappings via kolla
> overrides. This would usually be in /etc/kolla/config/neutron. Create
> a subdirectory for your compute inventory group and create an
> ml2_conf.ini there. So you'd end up with something like:
> 
> [root at kolla-deploy ~]# cat /etc/kolla/config/neutron/compute/ml2_conf.ini
> [ml2_type_flat]
> flat_networks = mgmt-net
> 
> [ovs]
> bridge_mappings = mgmt-net:br-mgmt
> 
> run kolla-ansible --tags neutron reconfigure to push out the new
> configs. Note that there is a bug where the neutron containers may not
> restart after the change, so you'll probably need to do a 'docker
> container restart neutron_openvswitch_agent' on each compute node.
> 
> At this point, you'll need to create the provider network in the admin
> project like:
> 
> openstack network create --provider-network-type flat
> --provider-physical-network mgmt-net lb-mgmt-net
> 
> And then create a normal subnet attached to this network with some
> largeish address scope. I wouldn't use 172.16.0.0/16 because docker
> uses that by default. I'm not sure if it matters since the network
> traffic will be isolated on a bridge, but it makes me paranoid so I
> avoided it.
> 
> For your controllers, I think you can just let everything function off
> your api interface since you're routing in your spines. Set up a
> gateway somewhere from that lb-mgmt network and save yourself the
> complication of adding an interface to your controllers. If you choose
> to use a separate interface on your controllers, you'll need to make
> sure this patch is in your kolla-ansible install or cherry pick it.
> 
> https://github.com/openstack/kolla-ansible/commit/0b6e401c4fdb9aa4ff87d0bfd4b25c91b86e0d60#diff-6c871f6865aecf0057a5b5f677ae7d59
> 
> I don't think that's been backported at all, so unless you're running
> off master you'll need to go get it.
> 
>  From here on out, the regular Octavia instruction should serve you.
> Create a flavor, Create a security group, and capture their UUIDs
> along with the UUID of the provider network you made. Override them in
> globals.yml with:
> 
> octavia_amp_boot_network_list: <uuid>
> octavia_amp_secgroup_list: <uuid>
> octavia_amp_flavor_id: <uuid>
> 
> This is all from my scattered notes and bad memory. Hopefully it makes
> sense. Corrections welcome.
> 
> -Erik
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>
>>>
>>> -Erik
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Florian
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