Using Khaleesi

Khaleesi is an ansible based deployment tool for OpenStack. It was developed by the Red Hat Openstack CI team and is used to simplify automation and builds. In order to work, khaleesi needs a configuration file which can either be provided by khaleesi-settings project. Khaleesi-settings populates the config file using the ksgen (Khaleesi settings generator) tool, located in khaleesi project.

https://github.com/redhat-openstack/khaleesi-settings or http://<redhat-internal-git-server>/git/khaleesi-settings.git

Prerequisites

Fedora21+ with Python 2.7. For running jobs, khaleesi requires a dedicated RHEL7 or F21 Jenkins slave. We do have an ansible playbook that sets up a slave, see Creating a Jenkins slave.

Warning

Do not use the root user, as these instructions assumes that you are a normal user and uses venv. Being root may shadow some of the errors you may make like forgetting to source venv and pip install ansible.

Update your system, install git and reboot:

sudo yum -y update && sudo yum -y install git && sudo reboot

Install the ‘Development Tools’ Package group, python-devel and sshpass packages:

sudo yum group install -y 'Development Tools'
sudo yum -y install python-devel python-virtualenv sshpass

Install the OpenStack clients:

sudo yum install python-novaclient python-neutronclient python-glanceclient -y

Installation

Create or enter the directory where you want to check out the repositories. We assume that both the repositories and your virtual environment are in the same directory. Clone the repositories:

git clone https://github.com/redhat-openstack/khaleesi.git
or
git clone https://github.com/redhat-openstack/khaleesi-settings.git

read-only mirror:

git clone http://<redhat-internal-git-server>/git/khaleesi-settings.git

Gerrit:

https://review.gerrithub.io/#/q/project:redhat-openstack/khaleesi

Create the virtual environment, install ansible, ksgen and kcli utils:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install ansible==1.9.2
cd khaleesi
cd tools/ksgen
python setup.py install
cd ../kcli
python setup.py install
cd ../..

Create the appropriate ansible.cfg for khaleesi:

cp ansible.cfg.example ansible.cfg

If you are using the OpenStack provisioner, ensure that you have a key uploaded on your remote host or tenant.

Copy the private key file that you will use to access instances to khaleesi/. We’re going to use the common example.key.pem key.:

cp ../khaleesi-settings/settings/provisioner/openstack/site/qeos/tenant/keys/example.key.pem  <dir>/khaleesi/
chmod 600 example.key.pem

Overview

To use Khaleesi you will need to choose an installer as well as onto which type of provisioner you wish to deploy.The provisioners correspond to the remote machines which will host your environment. Khaleesi currently provide five installers and ten provisioners. For all combinations, the settings are provided by khaleesi-settings through ksgen tool. You will find configuration variables under in the settings directory:

settings:

|-- provisioner
|   |-- beaker
|   |-- centosci
|   |-- ec2
|   |-- foreman
|   |-- libvirt
|   |-- manual
|   |-- openstack
|   |-- openstack_virtual_baremetal
|   |-- rackspace
|   |-- vagrant
|-- installer
|   |-- devstack
|   |-- opm
|   |-- packstack
|   |-- project
|   |-- rdo_manager
|-- tester
|   |-- api
|   |-- component
|   |-- functional
|   |-- integration
|   |-- pep8
|   |-- rally
|   |-- rhosqe
|   |-- tempest
|   |-- unittest
|-- product
|   |-- rdo
|   |-- rhos
|-- distro

One of Khaleesi’s primary goals is to break everything into small units. Let’s use the installer directory as an example to describe how the configuration tree is built.

Using ksgen with the following flags:

--installer=packstack \
--installer-topology=multi-node \
--installer-network=neutron \
--installer-network-variant=ml2-vxlan \
--installer-messaging=rabbitmq \

When ksgen reads –installer=packstack, it will locate the packstack.yml file located within the settings/installer directory.

next it goes down the tree to the directory settings/packstack/topology/multi-node.yml (because of the flag –installer-topology=multi-node), settings/packstack/network/neutron.yml, etc (according to the additional flags) and list all yml files it finds within those directories.

Then ksgen starts merging all YAML files using the parent directories as a base. This means that packstack.yml (which holds configuration that is common to packstack) will be used as base and be merged with settings/packstack/topology/multi-node.yml, settings/packstack/network/neutron.yml, and so on.

Usage

Once everything is set up we can see machines are created using either the rdo-manager or packstack installer. In both cases we’re going to use ksgen to supply Khaleesi’s ansible playbooks with a correct configuration file.

Installing rdo-manager with the manual provisioner

Here, we will deploy using the RDO-Manager provisioner and manual installer.

First, we create the appropriate configuration file with ksgen. Make sure that you are in your virtual environment that you previously created.

source venv/bin/activate

Export the ip or fqdn hostname of the test box you will use as the virtual host for osp-director:

export TEST_MACHINE=<ip address of baremetal virt host>

Generate the configuration with the following command:

ksgen --config-dir settings generate \
    --provisioner=manual \
    --product=rdo \
    --product-version=liberty \
    --product-version-build=last_known_good \
    --product-version-repo=delorean_mgt \
    --distro=centos-7.0 \
    --installer=rdo_manager \
    --installer-env=virthost \
    --installer-images=import_rdo \
    --installer-network-isolation=none \
    --installer-network-variant=ml2-vxlan \
    --installer-post_action=none \
    --installer-topology=minimal \
    --installer-tempest=smoke \
    --workarounds=enabled \
    --extra-vars @../khaleesi-settings/hardware_environments/virt/network_configs/none/hw_settings.yml \
    ksgen_settings.yml

Note

The “base_dir” key is defined by either where you execute ksgen from or by the $WORKSPACE environment variable. The base_dir value should point to the directory where khaleesi and khaleesi-settings have been cloned.

The result is a YAML file collated from all the small YAML snippets from khaleesi-settings/settings (as described in ksgen). All the options are quite self-explanatory and changing them is simple. The rule file is currently only used for deciding the installer+product+topology configuration. Check out ksgen for detailed documentation.

The next step will run your intended deployment:

ansible-playbook -vv --extra-vars @ksgen_settings.yml -i local_hosts playbooks/full-job-no-test.yml

If any part fails, you can ask for help on the freenode #rdo channel. Don’t forget to save the relevant error lines on something like pastebin.

Using your new undercloud / overcloud

When your run is complete (or even while it’s running), you can log in to your test machine:

ssh root@<test_machine>
su stack

If you want to log to your new undercloud machine

ssh -F ssh.config.ansible undercloud

Here you could play with your newly created Overcloud

Installing rdo-manager with centosci provisioner

Here the installation is similiar to manual but we will use the centosci provisioner. Notice the changes into the configuration for ksgen:

ksgen --config-dir settings generate \
    --provisioner=centosci \
    --provisioner-site=default \
    --provisioner-distro=centos \
    --provisioner-distro-version=7 \
    --provisioner-site-user=rdo \
    --product=rdo \
    --product-version=liberty \
    --product-version-build=last_known_good \
    --product-version-repo=delorean_mgt \
    --distro=centos-7.0 \
    --installer=rdo_manager \
    --installer-env=virthost \
    --installer-images=import_rdo \
    --installer-network-isolation=none \
    --installer-network-variant=ml2-vxlan \
    --installer-post_action=none \
    --installer-topology=minimal \
    --installer-tempest=smoke \
    --workarounds=enabled \
    --extra-vars @../khaleesi-settings/hardware_environments/virt/network_configs/none/hw_settings.yml \
ksgen_settings.yml

If any part fails, you can ask for help on the internal #rdo-ci channel. Don’t forget to save the relevant error lines on something like pastebin.

Using your new undercloud / overcloud

When your run is complete (or even while it’s running), you can log in to your host

ssh root@$HOST
su stack

If you want to log to your new undercloud machine, just make on your host:

ssh -F ssh.config.ansible undercloud

Here you could play with your newly created Overcloud

Installing Openstack on Bare Metal via Packstack

All the steps are the same as the All-in-one case. The only difference is running the ksgen with different parameters: Please change the below settings to match your environment:

ksgen --config-dir settings generate \
--provisioner=foreman \
--provisioner-topology="all-in-one" \
--distro=rhel-7.1 \
--product=rhos \
--product-version=7.0 \
--product-version-repo=puddle \
--product-version-build=latest \
--extra-vars=provisioner.nodes.controller.hostname=myserver.example.com \
--extra-vars=provisioner.nodes.controller.network.interfaces.external.label=enp4s0f1 \
--extra-vars=provisioner.nodes.controller.network.interfaces.external.config_params.device=enp4s0f1 \
--extra-vars=provisioner.nodes.controller.network.interfaces.data.label="" \
--extra-vars=provisioner.nodes.controller.network.interfaces.data.config_params.device="" \
--extra-vars=provisioner.network.network_list.external.allocation_start=192.168.100.1 \
--extra-vars=provisioner.network.network_list.external.allocation_end=192.168.100.100 \
--extra-vars=provisioner.network.network_list.external.subnet_gateway=192.168.100.101 \
--extra-vars=provisioner.network.network_list.external.subnet_cidr=192.168.100.0/24 \
--extra-vars=provisioner.network.vlan.external.tag=10 \
--extra-vars=provisioner.remote_password=mypassword \
--extra-vars=provisioner.nodes.controller.rebuild=yes \
--extra-vars=provisioner.key_file=/home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa \
--installer=packstack \
--installer-network=neutron \
--installer-network-variant=ml2-vxlan \
--installer-messaging=rabbitmq \
ksgen_settings.yml

And then simply run:

ansible-playbook -vv --extra-vars @ksgen_settings.yml -i local_hosts playbooks/full-job-no-test.yml

Installing Openstack on Bare Metal via rdo-manager

To deploy OpenStack RDO with rdo-manager you will need: - an Undercloud: an existing machine running CentOS 7 since we use rdo-manager, OSP-director requires RHEL7 instead - a set of computer featuring power management interface supported by _Ironic: .. http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/environments/baremetal.html#ironic-drivers - the undercloud machine must be able to reach the power management interfaces IP - a hardware_environments in khaleesi settings as described below.

Testing Openstack Components

OpenStack components have various set of tests that are referred to as testers. Below is a list of all testers that are supported in khaleesi, for running tests on OpenStack components.The list is sorted by complexity of setting up the environment needed for running the tests:

  • pep8
  • Unit tests
  • Functional
  • Integration
  • API (in component repo)
  • Tempest

Testers are passed to the ksgen CLI as ‘–tester=’ argument value: pep8, unittest, functional, integration, api, tempest

Requirements:

There is only one requirement and it’s to have an jenkins-config yml file in the root of the component directory. For example, if the component is neutron, then there should be an neutron/jenkins-config.yml file. The name may differ and can be set by using –extra-vars tester.component.config_file in ksgen invocation.

The structure of an jenkins-config should be similar to:

———————– jenkins-config sample beginning———————— # Khaleesi will read and execute this section only if –tester=pep8 included in ksgen invocation pep8:

rpm_deps: [ python-neutron, python-hacking, pylint ] remove_rpm: [] run: tox –sitepackages -v -e pep8 2>&1 | tee ../logs/testrun.log;

# Khaleesi will read and execute this section only if –tester=unittest included in ksgen invocation unittest:

rpm_deps: [ python-neutron, python-cliff ] remove_rpm: [] run: tox –sitepackages -v -e py27 2>&1 | tee ../logs/testrun.log;

# Common RPMs that are used by all the testers rpm_deps: [ gcc, git, “{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname][tester.component.tox_target][‘rpm_deps’] }}” ]

# The RPMs that shouldn’t be installed when running tests, no matter which tester chosen remove_rpm: [ “{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname][tester.component.tox_target][‘remove_rpm’] }}” ]

# Any additional repos besides defaults that should be enabled to support testing # the repos need to be already installed. this just allows you to enable them. add_additional_repos: [ ]

# Any repos to be disabled to support testing # this just allows you to disable them. remove_additional_repos: [ ]

# Common pre-run steps for all testers neutron_virt_run_config:

run: >
set -o pipefail; rpm -qa > installed-rpms.txt; truncate –size 0 requirements.txt && truncate –size 0 test-requirements.txt; {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname][tester.component.tox_target][‘run’] }}
# Files to archive
archive:
  • ../logs/testrun.log
  • installed-rpms.txt

# Main section that will be read by khaleesi test_config:

virt:
RedHat-7:
setup:
enable_repos: “{{ add_additional_repos }}” # Optional. When you would like to look in additional places for RPMs disable_repos: “{{ remove_additional_repos }}” # Optional. When you would like to remove repos to search install: “{{ rpm_deps }}” # Optional. When you would like to install requirements remove: “{{ remove_rpm }}” # Optional. When you would like to remove packages

run: “{{ neutron_virt_run_config.run }}” # A must. The actual command used to run the tests archive: “{{ neutron_virt_run_config.archive }}” # A must. Files to archive

———————– jenkins-config sample end ————————

Usage:

Below are examples on how to use the different testers:

To run pep8 you would use the following ksgen invocation:

ksgen –config-dir settings generate

–provisioner=openstack –provisioner-site=qeos –product=rhos –distro=rhel-7.2 –installer=project –installer-component=nova # OpenStack component on which tests will run –tester=pep8

ksgen_settings.yml

To run unit tests you would use the following ksgen invocation:

ksgen –config-dir settings generate

–provisioner=openstack –provisioner-site=qeos –product=rhos –distro=rhel-7.2 –installer=project –installer-component=cinder –tester=unittest

ksgen_settings.yml

To run functional tests, you would use:

ksgen –config-dir settings generate

–provisioner=openstack –provisioner-site=qeos –distro=rhel-7.2 –product=rhos –installer=project –installer-component=heat –tester=functional

ksgen_settings.yml

To run API in-tree tests, you would use:

ksgen –config-dir settings generate

–provisioner=openstack –provisioner-site=qeos –distro=rhel-7.2 –product=rhos –installer=packstack –installer-config=basic_glance –tester=api –installer-component=glance

ksgen_settings.yml

To run tempest tests, use this invocation:

ksgen –config-dir settings generate

–provisioner=openstack –provisioner-site=qeos –distro=rhel-7.2 –product=rhos –installer=packstack –installer-config=basic_cinder –tester=tempest –tester-tests=cinder_full # For single component tests use cinder_full –tester-setup=git # To install with existing package, use ‘rpm’

ksgen_settings.yml

Key differences between testers:

  • pep8 and unittest Do not require installed OpenStack environment while other testers does.

    That is why for the pep8 and unittest the installer is the actual project repo: ‘–installer=project’.

    For pep8 and unittest khaleesi run would look like this: provision -> install component git repo -> run tests.

    For any other tester khaleesi run would look like this: provision -> install OpenStack* -> copy tests to tester node -> run tests.

    • Using packstack or rdo-manager
  • Tempest Holds all the tests in separate project.

    While any other testser can only run on single component, Tempest holds system wide tests that can test multiple component in single run. That’s why you need to define the tests to run with ‘–tester-tests=neutron_full’ in order to run single component tests. To run all tests simply use ‘–tester-tests=all’.

    Tempest itself, as tester framework, can be installed via source or rpm. You can control it with ‘–tester-setup=git’ or ‘–tester-setup=rpm’.

For all testers khaleesi is collecting logs. There are two type of logs:

  1. The actual tests run. Those are subunit streams that khaleesi converts to junitxml.
  2. Any additional files that are defined by user for archiving.

Note that pep8 doesn’t generate subunit stream, so in this case, the tests logs are simply capture of output redirection from running the tests and not the subunit stream itself.

The hardware_environments

This directory will describe your platform configuration. It comes with the following files:

  • network_configs/bond_with_vlans/bond_with_vlans.yml: The network configuration, here bond_with_vlans is the name of our configuration, adjust the name for your configuration. You can also prepare a different network profile.
  • hw_settings.yml: the configuration to pass to rdo-manager (floating_ip range, neutron internal vlan name, etc)
  • vendor_specific_setup: this file is a shell script that will be use to pass extra configuration to your hardware environment (RAID or NIC extract configuration). The file must exist but can be just empty.
  • instackenv.json: The list of the power management interfaces. The file is documented in rdo-manager documentation: .. https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack-m/rdo-manager-docs/liberty/environments/baremetal.html#instackenv-json

You can find some configuration samples in the khaleesi-settings project: .. https://github.com/redhat-openstack/khaleesi-settings/tree/master/hardware_environments

Start your deployment

This is an example of a ksgen command line, adjust it to match your environment:

ksgen --config-dir=settings generate
--provisioner=manual \
--installer=rdo_manager \
--installer-deploy=templates \
--installer-env=baremetal \
--installer-images=import_rdo \
--installer-network=neutron \
--installer-network-isolation=bond_with_vlans \
--installer-network-variant=ml2-vxlan \
--installer-post_action=default \
--installer-topology=minimal \
--installer-tempest=minimal \
--installer-updates=none \
--distro=centos-7.0 \
--product=rdo \
--product-version-build=last_known_good \
--product-version-repo=delorean_mgt \
--product-version=liberty \
--workarounds=enabled \
--extra-vars @/khaleesi_project/khaleesi-settings/hardware_environments/my_test_lab/hw_settings.yml \
/khaleesi_project/ksgen_settings.yml

Declare the $TEST_MACHINE environment. It should point on the IP of our Undercloud. You should also be able to open a SSH connection as root:

export TEST_MACHINE=<ip address of baremetal undercloud host>
ssh root@$TEST_MACHINE
# exit

You must create a new local_host file. Here again adjust the IP address of your Undercloud:

cat <<EOF > local_hosts
[undercloud]
undercloud groups=undercloud ansible_ssh_host=<ip address of baremetal undercloud host> ansible_ssh_user=stack ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/id_rsa
[local]
localhost ansible_connection=local
EOF

You can now call Khaleesi:

ansible-playbook -vv --extra-vars @ksgen_settings.yml -i local_hosts playbooks/full-job-no-test.yml

Cleanup

After you finished your work, you can simply remove the created instances by:

ansible-playbook -vv --extra-vars @ksgen_settings.yml -i hosts playbooks/cleanup.yml