Chapter 3. Preparing for director installation

Procedure

1. Log into your undercloud as the root user.

2. Create the stack user:

   [root@director ~]# useradd stack

3. Set a password for the user:

   [root@director ~]# passwd stack

4. Disable password requirements when using sudo:

   [root@director ~]# echo "stack ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL" | tee -a /etc/sudoers.d/stack
   [root@director ~]# chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/stack

5. Switch to the new stack user:

   [root@director ~]# su - stack
   [stack@director ~]$

6. Create directories for system images and Heat templates.

   [stack@director ~]$ mkdir ~/images
   [stack@director ~]$ mkdir ~/templates

   The director uses system images and Heat templates to create the overcloud environment. Red Hat recommends creating these directories to help you organize your local file system.

7. Check the base and full hostname of the undercloud:

   [stack@director ~]$ hostname
   [stack@director ~]$ hostname -f

   If either of the previous commands do not report the correct fully-qualified hostname or report an error, use hostnamectl to set a hostname:

   [stack@director ~]$ sudo hostnamectl set-hostname manager.example.com
   [stack@director ~]$ sudo hostnamectl set-hostname --transient manager.example.com

8. Edit the /etc/hosts to include an entry for the system’s hostname. The IP address in /etc/hosts must match the address that you plan to use for your undercloud public API. For example, if the system is named manager.example.com and uses 10.0.0.1 for its IP address, then /etc/hosts requires an entry like:

   10.0.0.1  manager.example.com manager

9. Register your system either with the Red Hat Content Delivery Network or with a Red Hat Satellite. For example, run the following command to register the system to the Content Delivery Network. Enter your Customer Portal user name and password when prompted:

   [stack@director ~]$ sudo subscription-manager register

10. Find the entitlement pool ID for Red Hat OpenStack Platform director. For example:

    [stack@director ~]$ sudo subscription-manager list --available --all --matches="Red Hat OpenStack"
    Subscription Name:   Name of SKU
    Provides:            Red Hat Single Sign-On
                         Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
                         Red Hat CloudForms
                         Red Hat OpenStack
                         Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation)
                         Red Hat Virtualization
    SKU:                 SKU-Number
    Contract:            Contract-Number
    Pool ID:             Valid-Pool-Number-123456
    Provides Management: Yes
    Available:           1
    Suggested:           1
    Service Level:       Support-level
    Service Type:        Service-Type
    Subscription Type:   Sub-type
    Ends:                End-date
    System Type:         Physical

11. Locate the Pool ID value and attach the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 entitlement:

    [stack@director ~]$ sudo subscription-manager attach --pool=Valid-Pool-Number-123456

12. Disable all default repositories, and then enable the required Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories:

    [stack@director ~]$ sudo subscription-manager repos --disable=*
    [stack@director ~]$ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-highavailability-rpms --enable=ansible-2.8-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms --enable=openstack-15-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms --enable=fast-datapath-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

    These repositories contain packages the director installation requires.

13. Set the RHEL version to RHEL 8.2:

    [stack@director ~]$ sudo subscription-manager release --set=8.2

14. Perform an update on your system to ensure you have the latest base system packages:

    [stack@director ~]$ sudo dnf update -y
    [stack@director ~]$ sudo reboot

15. Install the command line tools for director installation and configuration:

    [stack@director ~]$ sudo dnf install -y python3-tripleoclient

Procedure

1. Enable the Ceph Tools repository:

   [stack@director ~]$ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhceph-4-tools-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

2. Install the ceph-ansible package:

   [stack@director ~]$ sudo dnf install -y ceph-ansible

Procedure

1. Log in to your undercloud host as the stack user.

2. Generate the default container image preparation file:

   $ openstack tripleo container image prepare default \
     --local-push-destination \
     --output-env-file containers-prepare-parameter.yaml

   This command includes the following additional options:

   • --local-push-destination sets the registry on the undercloud as the location for container images. This means the director pulls the necessary images from the Red Hat Container Catalog and pushes them to the registry on the undercloud. The director uses this registry as the container image source. To pull directly from the Red Hat Container Catalog, omit this option.

   • --output-env-file is an environment file name. The contents of this file include the parameters for preparing your container images. In this case, the name of the file is containers-prepare-parameter.yaml.

     Note

     You can also use the same containers-prepare-parameter.yaml file to define a container image source for both the undercloud and the overcloud.

3. Edit the containers-prepare-parameter.yaml and make the modifications to suit your requirements.

Procedure

1. Edit the containers-prepare-parameter.yaml file to exclude the Ceph Storage containers:

   parameter_defaults:
     ContainerImagePrepare:
     - push_destination: true
       excludes:
         - ceph
         - prometheus
       set:
         …​

   The excludes parameter uses regular expressions to exclude any container images that contain the ceph or prometheus strings.

2. Save the containers-prepare-parameter.yaml file.

Procedure

1. Create a list of all container images:

   $ sudo podman search --limit 1000 "registry.redhat.io/rhosp15-rhel8" | awk '{ print $2 }' | grep -v beta | sed "s/registry.redhat.io\///g" | tail -n+2 > satellite_images

2. Copy the satellite_images_names file to a system that contains the Satellite 6 hammer tool. Alternatively, use the instructions in the Hammer CLI Guide to install the hammer tool to the undercloud.

3. Run the following hammer command to create a new product (OSP15 Containers) in your Satellite organization:

   $ hammer product create \
     --organization "ACME" \
     --name "OSP15 Containers"

   This custom product will contain our images.

4. Add the base container image to the product:

   $ hammer repository create \
     --organization "ACME" \
     --product "OSP15 Containers" \
     --content-type docker \
     --url https://registry.redhat.io \
     --docker-upstream-name rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-base \
     --upstream-username USERNAME \
     --upstream-password PASSWORD \
     --name base

5. Add the overcloud container images from the satellite_images file.

   $ while read IMAGE; do \
     IMAGENAME=$(echo $IMAGE | cut -d"/" -f2 | sed "s/openstack-//g" | sed "s/:.*//g") ; \
     hammer repository create \
     --organization "ACME" \
     --product "OSP15 Containers" \
     --content-type docker \
     --url https://registry.redhat.io \
     --docker-upstream-name $IMAGE \
     --upstream-username USERNAME \
     --upstream-password PASSWORD \
     --name $IMAGENAME ; done < satellite_images_names

6. Add the Ceph Storage 4 container image:

   $ hammer repository create \
     --organization "ACME" \
     --product "OSP15 Containers" \
     --content-type docker \
     --url https://registry.redhat.io \
     --docker-upstream-name rhceph-beta/rhceph-4-rhel8 \
     --upstream-username USERNAME \
     --upstream-password PASSWORD \
     --name rhceph-4-rhel8

7. Synchronize the container images:

   $ hammer product synchronize \
     --organization "ACME" \
     --name "OSP15 Containers"

   Wait for the Satellite server to complete synchronization.

   Note

   Depending on your configuration, hammer might ask for your Satellite server username and password. You can configure hammer to automatically login using a configuration file. For more information, see the "Authentication" section in the Hammer CLI Guide.

8. If your Satellite 6 server uses content views, create a new content view version to incorporate the images and promote it along environments in your application life cycle. This largely depends on how you structure your application lifecycle. For example, if you have an environment called production in your lifecycle and you want the container images available in that environment, create a content view that includes the container images and promote that content view to the production environment. For more information, see "Managing Container Images with Content Views".

9. Check the available tags for the base image:

   $ hammer docker tag list --repository "base" \
     --organization "ACME" \
     --environment "production" \
     --content-view "myosp15" \
     --product "OSP15 Containers"

   This command displays tags for the OpenStack Platform container images within a content view for an particular environment.

10. Return to the undercloud and generate a default environment file for preparing images using your Satellite server as a source. Run the following example command to generate the environment file:

    (undercloud) $ openstack tripleo container image prepare default \
      --output-env-file containers-prepare-parameter.yaml

    • --output-env-file is an environment file name. The contents of this file will include the parameters for preparing your container images for the undercloud. In this case, the name of the file is containers-prepare-parameter.yaml.

11. Edit the containers-prepare-parameter.yaml file and modify the following parameters:

    • namespace - The URL and port of the registry on the Satellite server. The default registry port on Red Hat Satellite is 5000.

    • name_prefix - The prefix is based on a Satellite 6 convention. This differs depending on whether you use content views:

      • If you use content views, the structure is [org]-[environment]-[content view]-[product]-. For example: acme-production-myosp15-osp15_containers-.
      • If you do not use content views, the structure is [org]-[product]-. For example: acme-osp15_containers-.
    • ceph_namespace, ceph_image, ceph_tag - If using Ceph Storage, include the additional parameters to define the Ceph Storage container image location. Note that ceph_image now includes a Satellite-specific prefix. This prefix is the same value as the name_prefix option.