installer/docs/user/openstack/customization.md

OpenStack Platform Customization

Beyond the platform-agnostic install-config.yaml properties, the installer supports additional, OpenStack-specific properties.

Table of Contents

• Cluster-scoped properties
• Machine pools
• Examples
  • Minimal
  • Custom-machine-pools
• Image Overrides
• Custom Subnets
• Additional Networks
• Additional Security Groups
• Further customization

Cluster-scoped properties

• cloud (required string): The name of the OpenStack cloud to use from clouds.yaml.
• computeFlavor (required string): The OpenStack flavor to use for compute and control-plane machines. This is currently required, but has lower precedence than the type property on the compute and controlPlane machine-pools.
• externalDNS (optional list of strings): The IP addresses of DNS servers to be used for the DNS resolution of all instances in the cluster
• externalNetwork (optional string): Name of external network the installer will use to provide access to the cluster. If defined, a floating ip from this network will be created and associated with the bootstrap node to facilitate debugging and connection to the bootstrap node during installation. The lbFloatingIP property is a floating ip address selected from this network.
• lbFloatingIP (optional string): Address of existing Floating IP from externalNetwork the installer will associate with the API load balancer. This property is only valid if externalNetwork is defined. If externalNetwork is not defined, the installer will throw an error.
• ingressFloatingIP (optional string): Address of an existing Floating IP from externalNetwork the installer will associate with the ingress port. This property is only valid if externalNetwork is defined. If externalNetwork is not defined, the installer will throw an error.
• octaviaSupport (deprecated string): Whether OpenStack supports Octavia (1 for true or 0 for false)
• region (deprecated string): The OpenStack region where the cluster will be created. Currently this value is not used by the installer.
• trunkSupport (deprecated string): Whether OpenStack ports can be trunked (1 for true or 0 for false)
• clusterOSImage (optional string): Either a URL with http(s) or file scheme to override the default OS image for cluster nodes or an existing Glance image name.
• apiVIP (optional string): An IP address on the machineNetwork that will be assigned to the API VIP. Be aware that the 10 and 11 of the machineNetwork will be taken by neutron dhcp by default, and wont be available.
• ingressVIP (optional string): An IP address on the machineNetwork that will be assigned to the ingress VIP. Be aware that the 10 and 11 of the machineNetwork will be taken by neutron dhcp by default, and wont be available.
• machinesSubnet (optional string): the UUID of an OpenStack subnet to install the nodes of the cluster onto. For more information on how to install with a custom subnet, see the custom subnets section of the docs.

Machine pools

• additionalNetworkIDs (optional list of strings): IDs of additional networks for machines.
• additionalSecurityGroupIDs (optional list of strings): IDs of additional security groups for machines.
• type (optional string): The OpenStack flavor name for machines in the pool.
• rootVolume (optional object): Defines the root volume for instances in the machine pool. The instances use ephemeral disks if not set.
  • size (required integer): Size of the root volume in GB.
  • type (required string): The volume pool to create the volume from.

NOTE: The bootstrap node follows the type and rootVolume parameters from the controlPlane machine pool.

Examples

Some example install-config.yaml are shown below. For examples of platform-agnostic configuration fragments, see here.

Minimal

An example minimal OpenStack install config is:

apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: example.com
metadata:
  name: test-cluster
platform:
  openstack:
    cloud: mycloud
    computeFlavor: m1.s2.xlarge
    externalNetwork: external
    externalDNS:
      - "8.8.8.8"
      - "192.168.1.12"
    lbFloatingIP: 128.0.0.1
pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}'
sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA...

Custom machine pools

An example OpenStack install config with custom machine pools:

apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: example.com
controlPlane:
  name: master
  replicas: 3
compute:
- name: worker
  platform:
    openstack:
      type: ml.large
      rootVolume:
        size: 30
        type: performance
  replicas: 3
metadata:
  name: test-cluster
platform:
  openstack:
    cloud: mycloud
    computeFlavor: m1.s2.xlarge
    externalNetwork: external
    lbFloatingIP: 128.0.0.1
pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}'
sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA...

Image Overrides

Normally the installer downloads the RHCOS image from a predetermined location described in data/data/rhcos.json). But the download URL can be overridden, notably for disconnected installations.

To do so and upload binary data from a custom location the user may set clusterOSImage parameter in the install config that points to that location, and then start the installation. In all other respects the process will be consistent with the default.

NOTE: For this to work, the parameter value must be a valid http(s) URL.

NOTE: The optional sha256 query parameter can be attached to the URL, which will force the installer to check the image file checksum before uploading it into Glance.

Example:

platform:
  openstack:
      clusterOSImage: http://mirror.example.com/images/rhcos-43.81.201912131630.0-openstack.x86_64.qcow2.gz?sha256=ffebbd68e8a1f2a245ca19522c16c86f67f9ac8e4e0c1f0a812b068b16f7265d

If the user wants to upload the image from the local file system, he can set clusterOSImage as file:///path/to/file. In this case the installer will take this file and automatically create an image in Glance.

Example:

platform:
  openstack:
      clusterOSImage: file:///home/user/rhcos.qcow2

If the user wants to reuse an existing Glance image without any uploading of binary data, then it is possible to set clusterOSImage install config parameter that specifies the Glance image name. In this case no new Glance images will be created, and the image will stay when the cluster is destroyed. In other words, if clusterOSImage is not an "http(s)" or "file" URL, then the installer will look into Glance for an image with that name.

Example:

platform:
  openstack:
      clusterOSImage: my-rhcos

Custom Subnets

Before running the installer with a custom machinesSubnet, there are a few things you should check. First, make sure that you have a network and subnet available. Note that the installer will create ports on this network, and some ports will be given a fixed IP addresses in the subnet's CIDR. Make sure that the credentials that you give the installer are authorized to do this! The installer will also apply a tag to the subnet. Lastly, the installer will not create a router, so make sure to do this if you need a router to attach floating ip addresses to the network you want to install the nodes onto. Note that for now, this feature does not fully support provider networks.

Once that is ironed out, you can pass the ID of the subnet to the install config with the machinesSubnet option. This subnet will be tagged as the primary subnet for the cluster. The nodes, and VIP port will be created on this subnet. This does add some complexity to the install process that needs to be accounted for. First of all, the subnet must have DHCP enabled. Also, the CIDR of the custom subnet must match the cidr of networks.machineNetwork. Be aware that the API and Ingress VIPs by default will try to take the .5 and .7 of your network CIDR. To avoid other services taking the ports assigned to the api and ingress VIPs, it is recommended that users set the apiVIP and ingressVIP options in the install config to addresses that are outside of the DHCP allocation pool. Lastly, note that setting externalDNS while setting machinesSubnet is invalid usage, since the installer will not modify your subnet. If you want to add a DNS to your cluster while using a custom subnet, add it to the subnet in openstack like this.

Additional Networks

You can set additional networks for your machines by defining additionalNetworkIDs parameter in the machine configuration. The parameter is a list of strings with additional network IDs:

additionalNetworkIDs:
- <network1_uuid>
- <network2_uuid>

You can attach this parameter for both controlPlane and compute machines:

Example:

compute:
- name: worker
  platform:
    openstack:
      additionalNetworkIDs:
      - fa806b2f-ac49-4bce-b9db-124bc64209bf
controlPlane:
  name: master
  platform:
    openstack:
      additionalNetworkIDs:
      - fa806b2f-ac49-4bce-b9db-124bc64209bf

NOTE: Allowed address pairs won't be created for the additional networks.

Additional Security Groups

You can set additional security groups for your machines by defining additionalSecurityGroupIDs parameter in the machine configuration. The parameter is a list of strings with additional security group IDs:

additionalSecurityGroupIDs:
- <security_group1_id>
- <security_group2_id>

You can attach this parameter for both controlPlane and compute machines:

Example:

compute:
- name: worker
  platform:
    openstack:
      additionalSecurityGroupIDs:
      - 7ee219f3-d2e9-48a1-96c2-e7429f1b0da7
controlPlane:
  name: master
  platform:
    openstack:
      additionalSecurityGroupIDs:
      - 7ee219f3-d2e9-48a1-96c2-e7429f1b0da7

Further customization

For customizing the installation beyond what is possible with openshift-install, refer to the UPI (User Provided Infrastructure) documentation.