Use an external Swift Proxy with the Overcloud

TripleO supports use of an external Swift (or Ceph RadosGW) proxy, already available to the operator.

Use of an external Swift proxy can be configured using a particular environment file when deploying the overcloud, specifically environments/swift-external.yaml.

In the environment file above user must adjust the parameters to fit its setup by creating a custom environment file (i.e. ~/my-swift-settings.yaml):

parameter_defaults:
   ExternalSwiftPublicUrl: 'http://<Public Swift endpoint or loadbalancer>:9024/v1/AUTH_%(tenant_id)s'
   ExternalSwiftInternalUrl: 'http://<Internal Swift endpoint>:9024/v1/AUTH_%(tenant_id)s'
   ExternalSwiftAdminUrl: 'http://<Admin Swift endpoint>:9024'
   ExternalSwiftUserTenant: 'service'
   SwiftPassword: 'choose_a_random_password'

Note

When the external Swift is implemented by Ceph RadosGW, the endpoint will be different; the /v1/ part needs to be replaced with /swift/v1, for example: http://<Public Swift endpoint or loadbalancer>:9024/v1/AUTH_%(tenant_id)s becomes http://<Public Swift endpoint or loadbalancer>:9024/swift/v1/AUTH_%(tenant_id)s

The user can create an environment file with the required settings and add the files above to the deploy commandline:

openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/swift-external.yaml -e ~/my-swift-settings.yaml

Once the deploy has succeeded, user has to complete the configuration on the external swift proxy, configuring it to use the keystone authentication provider. This environment file creates also a service user called swift that can be used for this purpose. The password for this user is defined by using the SwiftPassword parameter, as shown above.

The external Swift proxy must use Keystone from the overcloud, otherwise authentication will fail. The public Keystone endpoint must be accessible from the proxy therefore.

The following snippet from /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf is an example how to configure the Swift proxy to use Keystone from the overcloud:

[pipeline:main]
pipeline = [... other middlewares ...]  authtoken keystone [... other middlewares ...]

[filter:keystone]
use = egg:swift#keystoneauth
operator_roles = admin, SwiftOperator
cache = swift.cache

[filter:authtoken]
paste.filter_factory = keystonemiddleware.auth_token:filter_factory
signing_dir = /tmp/keystone-signing-swift
www_authenticate_uri = http://<public Keystone endpoint>:5000/
auth_url = http://<admin Keystone endpoint>:5000/
password = <Password as defined in the environment parameters>
auth_plugin = password
project_domain_id = default
user_domain_id = default
project_name = service
username = swift
cache = swift.cache
include_service_catalog = False
delay_auth_decision = True

For Ceph RadosGW instead, the following settings can be used:

rgw_keystone_api_version: 3
rgw_keystone_url: http://<public Keystone endpoint>:5000/
rgw_keystone_accepted_roles: 'member, Member, admin'
rgw_keystone_accepted_admin_roles: ResellerAdmin, swiftoperator
rgw_keystone_admin_domain: default
rgw_keystone_admin_project: service
rgw_keystone_admin_user: swift
rgw_keystone_admin_password: <Password as defined in the environment parameters>
rgw_keystone_implicit_tenants: 'true'
rgw_keystone_revocation_interval: '0'
rgw_s3_auth_use_keystone: 'true'
rgw_swift_versioning_enabled: 'true'
rgw_swift_account_in_url: 'true'