Heat stacks can only be deployed by admin users in RHEL OSP 5

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Openstack Platform 5 (RHEL OSP) on RHEL 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Openstack Platform 5 (RHEL OSP) on RHEL 7

Issue

  • Heat stacks can only be deployed by admin users in RHEL OSP 5

Resolution

This is resolved by RHEA-2014:0846

  • The domain should be created via the python-openstackclient client :
# yum install python-openstackclient -y

# openstack --os-token <atoken> --os-url=http://<KS_IP>:5000/v3 \ 
     --os-identity-api-version=3 domain create heat \
     --description "Owns users and projects created by heat"
  • This returns a domain ID, referred to as 'stack_user_domain id' below:
# openstack --os-token <atoken> --os-url=http://<KS_IP>:5000/v3 \
    --os-identity-api-version=3 user create heat_domain_admin \
    --password <password> --domain <stack_user_domain id>

# openstack --os-token <atoken> --os-url=http://<KS_IP>:5000/v3 \
    --os-identity-api-version=3 role add --user heat_domain_admin \
    --password <password> \
    --domain <stack_user_domain id> admin
  • The domain ID, username and password should be updated in heat.conf like this:
[DEFAULT]
stack_domain_admin_password = password
stack_domain_admin = heat_domain_admin
stack_user_domain = <domain id returned from domain create above>
  • Restart the openstack-heat-engine service.
# systemctl restart openstack-heat-engine
  • Now try to create the stack once again.
# . keystonerc_demo
(demo) # heat stack-create -f autoscaling.yaml -P 'database_flavor=2;image=4ca190db-ffaf-4008-a52b-c9d34f0debea;key=lyarwood;flavor=2;subnet_id=a81d243f-632e-4087-8eb0-fcf88d6e3c96;database_name=wordpress' test
[..]
(demo) # heat stack-list
+--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| id                                   | stack_name | stack_status    | creation_time        |
+--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| ba02c3f2-e6b7-45d2-ad3e-8f051cf16eac | test       | CREATE_COMPLETE | 2014-06-03T16:45:08Z |
+--------------------------------------+------------+-----------------+----------------------+

Root Cause

packstack requires heat update for domain users
Bugzilla 1076172 covered by RHEA-2014:0846

Diagnostic Steps

# . keystonerc_demo
(demo) # heat stack-create -f autoscaling.yaml -P 'database_flavor=2;image=4ca190db-ffaf-4008-a52b-c9d34f0debea;key=lyarwood;flavor=2;subnet_id=a81d243f-632e-4087-8eb0-fcf88d6e3c96;database_name=wordpress' test
[..]
(demo) # tailf /var/log/heat/engine.log
2014-06-03 12:13:20.902 18270 INFO heat.engine.resource [-] creating PoolMember "member" Stack "test-web_server_group-p22hg76awjsl-p7j62hiwc3yy-xuvqh6c3ovch" [ab1987da-26a1-47d2-ac6a-f385e6902026]
2014-06-03 12:13:22.661 18270 INFO heat.engine.resource [-] creating AutoScalingPolicy "web_server_scaleup_policy" Stack "test" [ad042d29-de69-4e60-bc33-e1b0a43dd959]
2014-06-03 12:13:22.668 18270 WARNING heat.common.keystoneclient [-] Falling back to legacy non-domain project, configure domain in heat.conf
2014-06-03 12:13:22.679 18270 WARNING heat.common.keystoneclient [-] Falling back to legacy non-domain user create, configure domain in heat.conf
2014-06-03 12:13:22.680 18270 INFO urllib3.connectionpool [-] Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.168.122.74
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 ERROR heat.engine.resource [-] CREATE : AutoScalingPolicy "web_server_scaleup_policy" Stack "test" [ad042d29-de69-4e60-bc33-e1b0a43dd959]
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/resource.py", line 417, in _do_action
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     handle())
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/resources/autoscaling.py", line 967, in handle_create
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     super(ScalingPolicy, self).handle_create()
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/signal_responder.py", line 46, in handle_create
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     super(SignalResponder, self).handle_create()
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/stack_user.py", line 38, in handle_create
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     self._create_user()
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/stack_user.py", line 51, in _create_user
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     project_id=self.stack.stack_user_project_id)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/common/heat_keystoneclient.py", line 323, in create_stack_domain_user
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     return self.create_stack_user(username=username, password=password)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/common/heat_keystoneclient.py", line 288, in create_stack_user
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     roles_list = self.client.roles.list()
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/utils.py", line 318, in inner
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     return func(*args, **kwargs)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/v3/roles.py", line 108, in list
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     return super(RoleManager, self).list(**kwargs)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/base.py", line 66, in func
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     return f(*args, **new_kwargs)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/base.py", line 339, in list
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     self.collection_key)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/base.py", line 106, in _list
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     resp, body = self.client.get(url)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/httpclient.py", line 590, in get
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     return self._cs_request(url, 'GET', **kwargs)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/httpclient.py", line 582, in _cs_request
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     return self.request(url, method, **kwargs)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/httpclient.py", line 564, in request
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     resp = super(HTTPClient, self).request(url, method, **kwargs)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/baseclient.py", line 21, in request
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     return self.session.request(url, method, **kwargs)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/utils.py", line 318, in inner
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     return func(*args, **kwargs)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keystoneclient/session.py", line 266, in request
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource     raise exceptions.from_response(resp, method, url)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource Forbidden: You are not authorized to perform the requested action, identity:list_roles. (HTTP 403)
2014-06-03 12:13:22.686 18270 TRACE heat.engine.resource 
2014-06-03 12:13:22.708 18270 WARNING heat.engine.service [-] Stack create failed, status FAILED

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