Nova role for OpenStack-Ansible

Nova role for OpenStack-Ansible

tags:openstack, nova, cloud, ansible
category:*nix
This role will install the following Systemd services:
  • nova-server
  • nova-compute

To clone or view the source code for this repository, visit the role repository for os_nova.

Default variables

# Enable/Disable barbican configurations
nova_barbican_enabled: False
# Enable/Disable designate configurations
nova_designate_enabled: False
# Notification topics for designate.
nova_notifications_designate: notifications_designate
# Enable/Disable ceilometer configurations
nova_ceilometer_enabled: False

## Verbosity Options
debug: False

# Set the package install state for distribution and pip packages
# Options are 'present' and 'latest'
nova_package_state: "latest"
nova_pip_package_state: "latest"

nova_git_repo: https://git.openstack.org/openstack/nova
nova_git_install_branch: stable/pike

nova_lxd_git_repo: https://git.openstack.org/openstack/nova-lxd
nova_lxd_git_install_branch: stable/pike

nova_developer_mode: false
nova_developer_constraints:
  - "git+{{ nova_git_repo }}@{{ nova_git_install_branch }}#egg=nova"
  - "git+{{ nova_lxd_git_repo }}@{{ nova_lxd_git_install_branch }}#egg=nova-lxd"

# Name of the virtual env to deploy into
nova_venv_tag: untagged
nova_bin: "/openstack/venvs/nova-{{ nova_venv_tag }}/bin"

# venv_download, even when true, will use the fallback method of building the
# venv from scratch if the venv download fails.
nova_venv_download: "{{ not nova_developer_mode | bool }}"
nova_venv_download_url: http://127.0.0.1/venvs/untagged/ubuntu/nova.tgz

nova_fatal_deprecations: False

## Nova user information
nova_system_user_name: nova
nova_system_group_name: nova
nova_system_shell: /bin/bash
nova_system_comment: nova system user
nova_system_home_folder: "/var/lib/{{ nova_system_user_name }}"
nova_libvirt_save_path: "{{ nova_system_home_folder }}/save"

nova_lock_path: "/var/lock/nova"

## Manually specified nova UID/GID
# Deployers can specify a UID for the nova user as well as the GID for the
# nova group if needed. This is commonly used in environments where shared
# storage is used, such as NFS or GlusterFS, and nova UID/GID values must be
# in sync between multiple servers.
#
# WARNING: Changing these values on an existing deployment can lead to
#          failures, errors, and instability.
#
# nova_system_user_uid = <UID>
# nova_system_group_gid = <GID>

## DB
nova_galera_user: nova
nova_galera_database: nova
nova_db_max_overflow: 10
nova_db_max_pool_size: 120
nova_db_pool_timeout: 30
# Toggle whether nova connects via an encrypted connection
nova_galera_use_ssl: False
# The path where to store the database server CA certificate
nova_galera_ssl_ca_cert: /etc/ssl/certs/galera-ca.pem

## DB API
nova_api_galera_user: nova_api
nova_api_galera_database: nova_api
nova_api_db_max_overflow: 10
nova_api_db_max_pool_size: 120
nova_api_db_pool_timeout: 30

## DB Placement
nova_placement_galera_user: nova_placement
nova_placement_galera_database: nova_placement
nova_placement_db_max_overflow: 10
nova_placement_db_max_pool_size: 120
nova_placement_db_pool_timeout: 30

## DB Cells
nova_cell0_database: "nova_cell0"
nova_cell1_name: "cell1"

## RabbitMQ info

## Configuration for RPC communications
nova_rpc_thread_pool_size: 64
nova_rpc_conn_pool_size: 30
nova_rpc_response_timeout: 60

nova_rabbitmq_servers: 127.0.0.1
nova_rabbitmq_port: 5672
nova_rabbitmq_userid: nova
nova_rabbitmq_vhost: /nova
nova_rabbitmq_use_ssl: False

## Configuration for notifications communication, i.e. [oslo_messaging_notifications]
nova_rabbitmq_telemetry_userid: "{{ nova_rabbitmq_userid }}"
nova_rabbitmq_telemetry_password: "{{ nova_rabbitmq_password }}"
nova_rabbitmq_telemetry_vhost: "{{ nova_rabbitmq_vhost }}"
nova_rabbitmq_telemetry_port: "{{ nova_rabbitmq_port }}"
nova_rabbitmq_telemetry_servers: "{{ nova_rabbitmq_servers }}"
nova_rabbitmq_telemetry_use_ssl: "{{ nova_rabbitmq_use_ssl }}"


## Nova virtualization Types
# The nova_virt_types dictionary contains global overrides used for
#  specific compute types. Every variable inside of this dictionary
#  will become an ansible fact. This gives the user the option to set
#  or customize things based on their needs without having to redefine
#  this entire data structure. Every supported compute type will be
#  have its specific variable requirements set under its short name.
nova_virt_types:
  ironic:
    nova_compute_driver: ironic.IronicDriver
    nova_scheduler_host_manager: ironic_host_manager
    nova_reserved_host_memory_mb: 0
    nova_firewall_driver: nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver
    nova_scheduler_use_baremetal_filters: True
    nova_scheduler_tracks_instance_changes: False
  kvm:
    nova_compute_driver: libvirt.LibvirtDriver
    nova_scheduler_host_manager: host_manager
    nova_reserved_host_memory_mb: 2048
    nova_firewall_driver: nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver
    nova_scheduler_use_baremetal_filters: False
    nova_scheduler_tracks_instance_changes: True
  lxd:
    nova_compute_driver: lxd.LXDDriver
    nova_scheduler_host_manager: host_manager
    nova_reserved_host_memory_mb: 2048
    nova_compute_manager: nova.compute.manager.ComputeManager
    nova_firewall_driver: nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver
    nova_scheduler_use_baremetal_filters: False
    nova_scheduler_tracks_instance_changes: True
  qemu:
    nova_compute_driver: libvirt.LibvirtDriver
    nova_scheduler_host_manager: host_manager
    nova_reserved_host_memory_mb: 2048
    nova_firewall_driver: nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver
    nova_scheduler_use_baremetal_filters: False
    nova_scheduler_tracks_instance_changes: True
    nova_cpu_mode: "none"
  powervm:
    nova_compute_driver: powervm.driver.PowerVMDriver
    nova_scheduler_host_manager: host_manager
    nova_reserved_host_memory_mb: 8192
    nova_firewall_driver: nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver
    nova_scheduler_use_baremetal_filters: False
    nova_scheduler_tracks_instance_changes: True


# If this is not set, then the playbook will try to guess it.
#nova_virt_type: kvm

# Enable Kernel Shared Memory (KSM)
nova_compute_ksm_enabled: False

#if set, nova_virt_type must be one of these:
nova_supported_virt_types:
  - qemu
  - kvm
  - lxd
  - ironic
  - powervm

## Nova Auth
nova_service_region: RegionOne
nova_service_project_name: "service"
nova_service_project_domain_id: default
nova_service_user_domain_id: default
nova_service_user_name: "nova"
nova_service_role_name: "admin"

## Keystone authentication middleware
nova_keystone_auth_plugin: password

## Nova enabled apis
nova_enabled_apis: "osapi_compute,metadata"

## Nova v2.1
nova_service_name: nova
nova_service_type: compute
nova_service_proto: http
nova_service_publicuri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_publicuri_proto | default(nova_service_proto) }}"
nova_service_adminuri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_adminuri_proto | default(nova_service_proto) }}"
nova_service_internaluri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_internaluri_proto | default(nova_service_proto) }}"
nova_service_port: 8774
nova_service_description: "Nova Compute Service"
nova_service_publicuri: "{{ nova_service_publicuri_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_service_port }}"
nova_service_publicurl: "{{ nova_service_publicuri }}/v2.1"
nova_service_adminuri: "{{ nova_service_adminuri_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_service_port }}"
nova_service_adminurl: "{{ nova_service_adminuri }}/v2.1"
nova_service_internaluri: "{{ nova_service_internaluri_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_service_port }}"
nova_service_internalurl: "{{ nova_service_internaluri }}/v2.1"

## Nova cinder
nova_cross_az_attach: True

## Nova spice
nova_spice_html5proxy_base_proto: "{{ openstack_service_publicuri_proto | default('http') }}"
nova_spice_html5proxy_base_port: 6082
nova_spice_html5proxy_base_uri: "{{ nova_spice_html5proxy_base_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_spice_html5proxy_base_port }}"
nova_spice_html5proxy_base_url: "{{ nova_spice_html5proxy_base_uri }}/spice_auto.html"
nova_spice_console_agent_enabled: True
nova_spicehtml5_git_repo: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-html5.git
nova_spicehtml5_git_install_branch: master

## Nova novnc
nova_novncproxy_proto: "{{ openstack_service_publicuri_proto | default('http') }}"
nova_novncproxy_port: 6080
nova_novncproxy_base_uri: "{{ nova_novncproxy_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_novncproxy_port }}"
nova_novncproxy_base_url: "{{ nova_novncproxy_base_uri }}/vnc_lite.html"
nova_novncproxy_vncserver_proxyclient_address: "{{ ansible_host }}"
nova_novncproxy_vncserver_listen: "{{ ansible_host }}"
nova_novncproxy_agent_enabled: True
nova_novncproxy_git_repo: https://github.com/novnc/noVNC
nova_novncproxy_git_install_branch: master

## Nova metadata
nova_metadata_proxy_enabled: "{{ nova_network_services[nova_network_type]['metadata_proxy_enabled'] | bool }}"
nova_metadata_host: "{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}"
nova_metadata_port: 8775

## Nova compute
nova_enable_instance_password: True
nova_force_config_drive: False

## Nova placement
nova_placement_service_enabled: True
nova_placement_service_user_domain_id: Default
nova_placement_service_project_domain_id: Default
nova_placement_service_interface: internal
nova_placement_service_in_ldap: "{{ nova_service_in_ldap }}"
nova_placement_service_username: placement
nova_placement_service_name: placement
nova_placement_service_role_name: "{{ nova_service_role_name }}"
nova_placement_service_type: placement
nova_placement_service_project_name: "{{ nova_service_project_name }}"
nova_placement_service_region: "{{ nova_service_region }}"
nova_placement_service_description: "Openstack Placement Service"
nova_placement_service_port: 8780
nova_placement_service_proto: "{{ nova_service_proto }}"
nova_placement_ssl: false
nova_placement_service_publicuri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_publicuri_proto | default(nova_placement_service_proto) }}"
nova_placement_service_adminuri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_adminuri_proto | default(nova_placement_service_proto) }}"
nova_placement_service_internaluri_proto: "{{ openstack_service_internaluri_proto | default(nova_placement_service_proto) }}"
nova_placement_service_publicuri: "{{ nova_placement_service_publicuri_proto }}://{{ external_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_placement_service_port }}"
nova_placement_service_publicurl: "{{ nova_placement_service_publicuri }}"
nova_placement_service_adminuri: "{{ nova_placement_service_adminuri_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_placement_service_port }}"
nova_placement_service_adminurl: "{{ nova_placement_service_adminuri }}"
nova_placement_service_internaluri: "{{ nova_placement_service_internaluri_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_placement_service_port }}"
nova_placement_service_internalurl: "{{ nova_placement_service_internaluri }}"

# Uwsgi settings
nova_wsgi_processes_max: 16
nova_wsgi_processes: "{{ [[ansible_processor_vcpus|default(1), 1] | max * 2, nova_wsgi_processes_max] | min }}"
nova_wsgi_buffer_size: 65535
nova_wsgi_threads: 1

## Nova libvirt
# Warning: If nova_libvirt_inject_key or nova_libvirt_inject_password are enabled for Ubuntu compute hosts
# then the kernel will be made readable to nova user (a requirement for libguestfs).
# See Launchpad bugs 1507915 (Nova), 759725 (Ubuntu), and http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html
nova_libvirt_inject_key: False
# inject partition options:
#  -2 => disable, -1 => inspect (libguestfs only), 0 => not partitioned, >0 => partition number
nova_libvirt_inject_partition: -2
nova_libvirt_inject_password: False
nova_libvirt_disk_cachemodes: '{{ nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool is defined | ternary("network=writeback", "") }}'
nova_libvirt_hw_disk_discard: '{{ nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool is defined | ternary("unmap", "ignore") }}'

## Nova console
nova_console_agent_enabled: True
# Set the console type. Presently the only options are ["spice", "novnc"].
nova_console_type: spice

# Nova console ssl info, presently only used by novnc console type
nova_console_ssl_dir: "/etc/nova/ssl"
nova_console_ssl_cert: "{{ nova_console_ssl_dir }}/nova-console.pem"
nova_console_ssl_key: "{{ nova_console_ssl_dir }}/nova-console.key"

# Set to true when terminating SSL/TLS at a load balancer
nova_external_ssl: false

# External SSL forwarding proto
nova_secure_proxy_ssl_header: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO

## Nova global config
nova_max_age: 0
nova_remove_unused_resized_minimum_age_seconds: 3600
nova_image_cache_manager_interval: 0
nova_resume_guests_state_on_host_boot: False
# nova_default_schedule_zone: nova

# Comma separated list of Glance API servers
# nova_glance_api_servers:

nova_network_type: linuxbridge

nova_network_services:
  linuxbridge:
    use_forwarded_for: False
    metadata_proxy_enabled: True
  nuage:
    use_forwarded_for: True
    metadata_proxy_enabled: True
    ovs_bridge: alubr0
  calico:
    use_forwarded_for: True
    metadata_proxy_enabled: False

# Nova quota
nova_quota_cores: 20
nova_quota_injected_file_content_bytes: 10240
nova_quota_injected_file_path_length: 255
nova_quota_injected_files: 5
nova_quota_instances: 10
nova_quota_key_pairs: 100
nova_quota_metadata_items: 128
nova_quota_ram: 51200
nova_quota_server_group_members: 10
nova_quota_server_groups: 10

# Nova Scheduler
nova_cpu_allocation_ratio: 2.0
nova_disk_allocation_ratio: 1.0
nova_max_instances_per_host: 50
nova_max_io_ops_per_host: 10
nova_ram_allocation_ratio: 1.0
nova_ram_weight_multiplier: 5.0
nova_reserved_host_disk_mb: 2048

nova_scheduler_driver_task_period: 60
nova_scheduler_host_subset_size: 10
nova_scheduler_max_attempts: 5
nova_scheduler_default_filters: >-
  RetryFilter,
  AvailabilityZoneFilter,
  RamFilter,
  AggregateRamFilter,
  ComputeFilter,
  AggregateCoreFilter,
  DiskFilter,
  AggregateDiskFilter,
  AggregateNumInstancesFilter,
  AggregateIoOpsFilter,
  ComputeCapabilitiesFilter,
  ImagePropertiesFilter,
  ServerGroupAntiAffinityFilter,
  ServerGroupAffinityFilter,
  NUMATopologyFilter
nova_scheduler_driver: filter_scheduler
nova_scheduler_available_filters: nova.scheduler.filters.all_filters
nova_scheduler_weight_classes: nova.scheduler.weights.all_weighers

# This should be tuned depending on the number of compute hosts present in the
# deployment. Large clouds may wish to disable automatic discovery by setting
# this value to -1.
nova_discover_hosts_in_cells_interval: "{{ 300 if groups['nova_compute'] | length > 10 else 60 }}"

# If you want to regenerate the nova users SSH keys, on each run, set this var to True
# Otherwise keys will be generated on the first run and not regenerated each run.
nova_recreate_keys: False

# Nova Ceph rbd
# Enble and define nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool to use rbd as nova backend
#nova_libvirt_images_rbd_pool: vms
nova_ceph_client: '{{ cinder_ceph_client }}'
# TODO(odyssey4me) - the uuid should be removed, there should be no defaults for secrets
nova_ceph_client_uuid: 517a4663-3927-44bc-9ea7-4a90e1cd4c66

# Enabled upstream if RBD is in use on cinder backends, which requires that
# ceph be deployed on the nova compute hosts to enable volume backed instances.
nova_cinder_rbd_inuse: False

## General Nova configuration
# If ``nova_osapi_compute_workers`` is unset the system will use half the number of available VCPUS to
# compute the number of api workers to use.
# nova_osapi_compute_workers: 16

# If ``nova_conductor_workers`` is unset the system will use half the number of available VCPUS to
# compute the number of api workers to use.
# nova_conductor_workers: 16

# If ``nova_metadata_workers`` is unset the system will use half the number of available VCPUS to
# compute the number of api workers to use.
# nova_metadata_workers: 16

## Cap the maximun number of threads / workers when a user value is unspecified.
nova_api_threads_max: 16
nova_api_threads: "{{ [[ansible_processor_vcpus|default(2) // 2, 1] | max, nova_api_threads_max] | min }}"

## Policy vars
# Provide a list of access controls to update the default policy.json with. These changes will be merged
# with the access controls in the default policy.json. E.g.
#nova_policy_overrides:
#  "compute:create": ""
#  "compute:create:attach_network": ""

nova_service_in_ldap: false

## libvirtd config options
nova_libvirtd_listen_tls: 1
nova_libvirtd_listen_tcp: 0
nova_libvirtd_auth_tcp: sasl
nova_libvirtd_debug_log_filters: "3:remote 4:event 3:json 3:rpc"

nova_api_metadata_init_overrides: {}
nova_api_os_compute_init_overrides: {}
nova_compute_init_overrides: {}
nova_conductor_init_overrides: {}
nova_consoleauth_init_overrides: {}
nova_novncproxy_init_overrides: {}
nova_scheduler_init_overrides: {}
nova_spicehtml5proxy_init_overrides: {}
nova_placement_api_init_overrides: {}

## Service Name-Group Mapping
nova_services:
  nova-api-metadata:
    group: nova_api_metadata
    service_name: nova-api-metadata
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_api_metadata_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 4
    log_string: "--logto "
    program_override: "{{ nova_bin }}/uwsgi --ini /etc/uwsgi/nova-api-metadata.ini"
    wsgi_app: True
    wsgi_overrides: "{{ nova_api_metadata_uwsgi_ini_overrides }}"
    uwsgi_port: "{{ nova_metadata_port }}"
    wsgi_name: nova-metadata-wsgi
  nova-api-os-compute:
    group: nova_api_os_compute
    service_name: nova-api-os-compute
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_api_os_compute_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 3
    log_string: "--logto "
    program_override: "{{ nova_bin }}/uwsgi --ini /etc/uwsgi/nova-api-os-compute.ini"
    wsgi_app: True
    wsgi_overrides: "{{ nova_api_os_compute_uwsgi_ini_overrides }}"
    uwsgi_port: "{{ nova_service_port }}"
    wsgi_name: nova-api-wsgi
  nova-compute:
    group: nova_compute
    service_name: nova-compute
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_compute_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 5
  nova-conductor:
    group: nova_conductor
    service_name: nova-conductor
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_conductor_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 1
  nova-consoleauth:
    group: nova_console
    service_name: nova-consoleauth
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_consoleauth_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 2
  nova-novncproxy:
    group: nova_console
    service_name: nova-novncproxy
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_novncproxy_init_overrides }}"
    condition: "{{ nova_console_type == 'novnc' }}"
    start_order: 4
  nova-scheduler:
    group: nova_scheduler
    service_name: nova-scheduler
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_scheduler_init_overrides }}"
    start_order: 2
  nova-spicehtml5proxy:
    group: nova_console
    service_name: nova-spicehtml5proxy
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_spicehtml5proxy_init_overrides }}"
    condition: "{{ nova_console_type == 'spice' }}"
    start_order: 4
  nova-placement-api:
    group: nova_api_placement
    service_name: nova-placement-api
    init_config_overrides: "{{ nova_placement_api_init_overrides }}"
    condition: "{{ nova_placement_service_enabled | bool }}"
    log_string: "--logto "
    start_order: 3
    program_override: "{{ nova_bin }}/uwsgi --ini /etc/uwsgi/nova-placement-api.ini"
    wsgi_app: True
    uwsgi_port: "{{ nova_placement_service_port }}"
    wsgi_name: nova-placement-api
    wsgi_overrides: "{{ nova_placement_uwsgi_ini_overrides }}"


nova_novnc_pip_packages:
  - websockify

# nova packages that must be installed before anything else
nova_requires_pip_packages:
  - virtualenv
  - virtualenv-tools
  - python-keystoneclient # Keystoneclient needed to OSA keystone lib
  - httplib2
  - python-openstackclient

nova_compute_ironic_pip_packages:
  - python-ironicclient

# Common pip packages
nova_pip_packages:
  - cryptography
  - keystonemiddleware
  - nova
  - PyMySQL
  - python-keystoneclient
  - python-memcached
  - python-novaclient
  - uWSGI

nova_compute_lxd_pip_packages:
  - pylxd
  - nova-lxd
  - pyOpenSSL

nova_qemu_user: libvirt-qemu
nova_qemu_group: kvm

# Define the following variable to drop a replacement
# file for /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
#qemu_conf_dict: {}

# This variable is used by the repo_build process to determine
# which host group to check for members of before building the
# pip packages required by this role. The value is picked up
# by the py_pkgs lookup.
nova_role_project_group: nova_all

## Tunable overrides
nova_nova_conf_overrides: {}
nova_rootwrap_conf_overrides: {}
nova_api_paste_ini_overrides: {}
nova_policy_overrides: {}
nova_vendor_data_overrides: {}
nova_placement_uwsgi_ini_overrides: {}
nova_api_metadata_uwsgi_ini_overrides: {}
nova_api_os_compute_uwsgi_ini_overrides: {}

nova_compute_powervm_pip_packages:
  - nova-powervm
  - pyasn1-modules

lxd_bind_address: 0.0.0.0
lxd_bind_port: 8443

# Supported backends are 'zfs', 'dir' and 'btrfs' for now.
# To use btrfs, a btrfs filesystem must be mounted in /var/lib/lxd
# during compute node configuration.
lxd_storage_backend: dir
# This needs to be set in the user_secrets.yml file.
#lxd_trust_password:

# This variable should be used with lxd when using a
# storage backend that utilizes storage pools (zfs)
#lxd_storage_pool:
# This variable should be used with lxd when using a
# storage backend that utilizes storage pool if you
# want to use a specific bloc device instead of loop
#lxd_storage_create_device: "/dev/sdb"

# PCI devices passthrough to nova
# For SR-IOV please use:
#   nova_pci_passthrough_whitelist: '{ "physical_network": "<ml2 network name>", "devname": "<physical nic>" }'
#   Example:
#     nova_pci_passthrough_whitelist: '{ "physical_network": "physnet1", "devname": "p1p1" }'
nova_pci_passthrough_whitelist: {}
# PCI alias,
# Example:
# nova_pci_alias:
#  - '{ "name": "card-alias1", "product_id": "XXXX", "vendor_id": "XXXX" }'
#  - '{ "name": "card-alias2", "product_id": "XXXY", "vendor_id": "XXXY" }'
nova_pci_alias: []

Example playbook

.. code-block:: yaml

    - name: Installation and setup of Neutron
      hosts: neutron_all
      user: root
      roles:
        - { role: "os_neutron", tags: [ "os-neutron" ] }
      vars:
        neutron_galera_address: "{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}"

Tags

This role supports two tags: nova-install and nova-config

The nova-install tag can be used to install and upgrade.

The nova-config tag can be used to manage configuration.

CPU platform compatibility

This role supports multiple CPU architecture types. At least one repo_build node must exist for each CPU type that is in use in the deployment.

Currently supported CPU architectures:
  • x86_64 / amd64
  • ppc64le

At this time, ppc64le is only supported for the Compute node type. It can not be used to manage the OpenStack-Ansible management nodes.

Compute driver compatibility

This role supports multiple nova compute driver types. The following compute drivers are supported:

  • libvirt (default)
  • ironic
  • lxd (via nova-lxd)
  • powervm (via nova-powervm)

The driver type is automatically detected by the OpenStack Ansible Nova role for the following compute driver types:

  • libvirt (kvm / qemu)
  • powervm

Any mix and match of compute node types can be used for those platforms, except for ironic.

If using the lxd driver, the compute type must be specified using the nova_virt_type variable.

The nova_virt_type may be set in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml, for example:

nova_virt_type: lxd

You can set nova_virt_type per host by using host_vars in /etc/openstack_deploy/openstack_user_config.yml. For example:

compute_hosts:
 aio1:
   ip: 172.29.236.100
   host_vars:
     nova_virt_type: lxd

If nova_virt_type is set in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml, all nodes in the deployment are set to that hypervisor type. Setting nova_virt_type in both /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml and /etc/openstack_deploy/openstack_user_config.yml will always result in the value specified in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml being set on all hosts.

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