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Description

Installs the Openstack compute service (codename: nova) from packages.

http://nova.openstack.org

Requirements

Chef 0.10.0 or higher required (for Chef environment use).

Platforms

• CentOS >= 6.3
• Ubuntu >= 12.04

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are dependencies:

• cinder
• database
• dsh
• keystone
• mysql
• nova-network
• openssl
• osops-utils
• sysctl

Resources/Providers

Conf

Handles creation of nova.conf file

Recipes

api-ec2

• Includes recipe nova-common
• Installs AWS EC2 compatible API and configures the service and endpoints in keystone

api-metadata

• Includes recipe nova-common
• Installs the nova metadata package

api-os-compute

• Includes recipe nova-common
• Installs OS API and configures the service and endpoints in keystone

api-os-volume

• Includes recipe nova-common
• Installs the OpenStack volume service API

compute

• Includes recipes nova-common, api-metadata
• Installs nova-compute service

essex-final-volume

• Includes recipes nova-common and api-os-volume
• Installs nova volume service and configures the service and endpoints in keystone
• To use you must created a LVM Volume Group named nova-volumes

folsom-volume

• Includes recipes cinder::cinder-setup, cinder::cinder-api, cinder::cinder-scheduler

libvirt

• Installs libvirt, used by nova compute for management of the virtual machine environment

nova-cert

• Includes recipe nova-common
• Installs nova-cert service

nova-common

• Includes recipe osops-utils::autoetchosts
• Builds the basic nova.conf config file with details of the rabbitmq, mysql, glance and keystone servers
• Builds a openrc file for root with appropriate environment variables to interact with the nova client CLI

nova-scheduler-patch

• Includes recipe osops-utils
• Patches nova-scheduler based on installed package version

nova-setup

• Includes recipes nova-common, mysql::client, mysql::ruby
• Sets up the nova database on the mysql server, including the initial schema

scheduler

• Includes recipe nova-common
• Installs nova scheduler service

vncproxy

• Includes recipe nova-common
• Installs and configures the vncproxy service for console access to VMs

Attributes

• nova["debug"] - Boolean to enable nova debug output

• nova["patch_files_on_disk"] - Boolean for patching files on disk

• nova["db"]["name"] - Name of nova database

• nova["db"]["username"] - Username for nova database access

• nova["db"]["password"] - Password for nova database access NOTE: db password is no longer set statically in the attributes file, but securely/randomly in the nova-common recipe

• nova["service_tenant_name"] - Tenant name used by nova when interacting with keystone

• nova["service_user"] - User name used by nova when interacting with keystone

• nova["service_pass"] - User password used by nova when interacting with keystone NOTE: service password is no longer set statically in the attributes file, but securely/randomly in the *api recipes

• nova["service_role"] - User role used by nova when interacting with keystone

• nova["volumes"]["enabled"] - Turn the nova-volumes service on or off

• nova["services"]["api"]["scheme"] - Scheme for OpenStack API service (http/https)

• nova["services"]["api"]["network"] - osops_networks network name which service operates on

• nova["services"]["api"]["port"] - Port to bind service to

• nova["services"]["api"]["path"] - URI to use

• nova["services"]["api"]["cert_override"] - For SSL - specify location of custom Cert file

• nova["services"]["api"]["key_override"] - For SSL - specify location of custom Key file

• nova["services"]["ec2-admin"]["scheme"] - Scheme for EC2-compatible admin service (http/https)

• nova["services"]["ec2-admin"]["network"] - osops_networks network name which service operates on

• nova["services"]["ec2-admin"]["port"] - Port to bind service to

• nova["services"]["ec2-admin"]["path"] - URI to use

• nova["services"]["ec2-public"]["scheme"] - Scheme for EC2-compatible public service (http/https)

• nova["services"]["ec2-public"]["network"] - osops_networks network name which service operates on

• nova["services"]["ec2-public"]["port"] - Port to bind service to

• nova["services"]["ec2-public"]["path"] - URI to use

• nova["services"]["ec2-public"]["cert_override"] - For SSL - specify location of custom Cert file

• nova["services"]["ec2-public"]["key_override"] - For SSL - specify location of custom Key file

• nova["services"]["novnc-proxy"]["scheme"] - Scheme for novncproxy service (http/https)

• nova["services"]["novnc-proxy"]["network"] - osops_networks network name which service operates on

• nova["services"]["novnc-proxy"]["port"] - Port to bind service to

• nova["services"]["novnc-proxy"]["path"] - URI to use

• nova["services"]["novnc-server"]["scheme"] - Scheme for novncserver service (http/https)

• nova["services"]["novnc-server"]["network"] - osops_networks network name which service operates on

• nova["services"]["novnc-server"]["port"] - Port to bind service to

• nova["services"]["novnc-server"]["path"] - URI to use

• nova["services"]["volume"]["scheme"] - Scheme for volume service (http/https)

• nova["services"]["volume"]["network"] - osops_networks network name which service operates on

• nova["services"]["volume"]["port"] - Port to bind service to

• nova["services"]["volume"]["path"] - URI to use

• nova["services"]["volume"]["cinder_catalog_info"] - URL used for cinder

• nova["scheduler"]["scheduler_driver"] - The scheduler driver to use NOTE: The filter scheduler currently does not work with ec2.

• nova["scheduler"]["scheduler_weight_classes"] - A list of weight class names (separated by commas) to use for weighing hosts, defaults to nova.scheduler.weights.ram.RAMWeigher

• nova["scheduler"]["ram_weight_multiplier"] - Multiplier used for weighing RAM (a negative number will stack instances, positive will spread), defaults to 1.0

• nova["scheduler"]["default_filters"] - An Array of filters to use when scheduling instances. Maps to scheduler_default_filters in nova.conf.

• nova["libvirt"]["virt_type"] - What hypervisor software layer to use with libvirt (e.g., kvm, qemu)

• nova["libvirt"]["vncserver_listen"] - IP address on the hypervisor that libvirt listens for VNC requests on

• nova["libvirt"]["vncserver_proxyclient_address"] - IP address on the hypervisor that libvirt exposes for VNC requests on (should be the same as vncserver_listen)

• nova["libvirt"]["auth_tcp"] - Type of authentication your libvirt layer requires

• nova["libvirt"]["remove_unused_base_images"] - Remove unused base images?

• nova["libvirt"]["remove_unused_resized_minimum_age_seconds"] - Defaults to 3600 seconds

• nova["libvirt"]["remove_unused_original_minimum_age_seconds"] - Defaults to 3600 seconds

• nova["libvirt"]["checksum_base_images"] - Record and validate image checksums?

• nova["libvirt"]["libvirt_inject_key"] - Inject ssh public key at boot?

• nova["libvirt"]["libvirt_inject_password"] - Inject root password at boot?

• nova["libvirt"]["libvirt_inject_partition"] - The partition to inject to: -2 = disable, -1 = inspect (libguestfs only), 0 = not partitioned, >0 = partition number

• nova["libvirt"]["libvirt_cpu_mode"] - Options include "host-model", "host-passthrough", "custom", and "none"; cookbook defaults to nil and does not insert into nova.conf unless adjusted

• nova["libvirt"]["libvirt_cpu_model"] - This attribute is only applicable when virt_type is "kvm" or "qemu" and libvirt_cpu_mode is "custom"; cookbook defaults to nil and does not insert into nova.conf unless changed and applicable

• nova["libvirt"]["disk_cachemodes"] - KVM disk caching modes. Defaults to "file=none". To set writeback mode use "file=writeback". To set multiple modes use "file=writeback,block=none"

• nova["config"]["use_single_default_gateway"] - Use single default gateway?

• nova["config"]["availability_zone"] - Nova availability zone. Usually set at the node level to place a compute node in another az

• nova["config"]["default_schedule_zone"] - The availability zone to schedule instances in when no az is specified in the request

• nova["config"]["force_raw_images"] - Convert all images used as backing files for instances to raw (we default to false)

• nova["config"]["allow_same_net_traffic"] - Disable security groups for internal networks (we default to true)

• nova["config"]["osapi_max_limit"] - The maximum number of items returned in a single response from a collection resource (default is 1000)

• nova["config"]["cpu_allocation_ratio"] - Virtual CPU to Physical CPU allocation ratio (default 16.0)

• nova["config"]["ram_allocation_ratio"] - Virtual RAM to Physical RAM allocation ratio (default 1.5)

• nova["config"]["snapshot_image_format"] - Snapshot image format (valid options are : raw, qcow2, vmdk, vdi [we default to qcow2]).

• nova["config"]["start_guests_on_host_boot"] - Whether to restart guests when the host reboots

• nova["config"]["scheduler_max_attempts"] - Max number of attempts to schedule an instance before setting to error status

• nova["config"]["resume_guests_state_on_host_boot"] - Whether to start guests that were running before the host rebooted

• nova["config"]["hardware_gateway"] - Specify an external gateway IP for instances

• nova["config"]["dns_servers"] - array of alternate DNS servers that dnsmasq should use when giving DHCP info to instances

• nova["config"]["log_verbosity"] - Logging verbosity. Valid options are DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL. Default is INFO

• nova["config"]["quota_security_groups"] - Number of security groups per project, defaults to 50

• nova["config"]["quota_security_group_rules"] - Number of security rules per security group, defaults to 20

• nova["config"]["force_config_drive"] - Force attachment of config drive, defaults to false

• nova["config"]["reserved_host_disk_mb"] - Amount of disk in MB to reserve for the host, defaults to 0

• nova["ratelimit"]["settings"] - Tune OpenStack Compute API rate limits. For Example: "override_attribute": { "nova": { "ratelimit": { "settings": { "changes-since-limit": { "limit": "500000", "verb": "GET", "uri": "changes-since", "interval": "MINUTE", "regex": ".changes-since." }, "create-servers-limit": { "limit": "500000", "verb": "POST", "uri": "/servers", "interval": "DAY", "regex": "^/servers" }, "generic-post-limit": { "limit": "500000", "verb": "POST", "uri": "", "interval": "MINUTE", "regex": "." }, "generic-delete-limit": { "limit": "500000", "verb": "DELETE", "uri": "", "interval": "MINUTE", "regex": "." }, "generic-put-limit": { "limit": "500000", "verb": "PUT", "uri": "", "interval": "MINUTE", "regex": ".*" } } } }

• nova["ratelimit"]["api"]["enabled"] - Enable API ratelimiting?

• nova["ratelimit"]["volume"]["enabled"] - Enable volume service ratelimiting?

• nova["platform"] - Hash of platform specific package/service names and options

Templates

• api-paste.ini.erb - Paste config for nova API middleware
• libvirt-bin.erb - Initscript for starting libvirtd
• libvirtd-ssh-config - Config file for libvirt SSH auth
• libvirtd.conf.erb - Libvirt config file
• nova.conf.erb - Basic nova.conf file
• nova-compute.conf.erb - Config for nova-compute service (folsom only)
• nova-logging.conf.erb - Logging config for nova services
• openrc.erb - Contains environment variable settings to enable easy use of the nova client
• patches/ - misc. patches for nova

License and Author

Author:: Justin Shepherd (justin.shepherd@rackspace.com)
Author:: Jason Cannavale (jason.cannavale@rackspace.com)
Author:: Ron Pedde (ron.pedde@rackspace.com)
Author:: Joseph Breu (joseph.breu@rackspace.com)
Author:: William Kelly (william.kelly@rackspace.com)
Author:: Darren Birkett (darren.birkett@rackspace.co.uk)
Author:: Evan Callicoat (evan.callicoat@rackspace.com)
Author:: Matt Thompson (matt.thompson@rackspace.co.uk)
Author:: Andy McCrae (andrew.mccrae@rackspace.co.uk)
Author:: Kevin Carter (kevin.carter@rackspace.com)

Copyright 2012-2013, Rackspace US, Inc.

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