The document discusses Foreman and Puppet for deploying OpenStack. It provides an introduction to Foreman and Puppet, and describes how they can be used together to automatically deploy and configure OpenStack on bare metal servers. The Foreman server acts as a Puppet master and PXE server, installing Ubuntu 14.04 on the bare metal nodes and configuring them using Puppet modules for OpenStack components. It outlines the network requirements and provides an example Puppet manifest for configuring OpenStack networks, services, and nodes.

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Foreman&Puppet Integrated Solution
for OpenStack Auto Deployment
Yating Yang
Feb 10 2015

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• Foreman&Puppet Solution for OpenStack deployment introduction (20min )
• Foreman introduction (30min )
• Puppet introduction (Optionnal：10min)
• Q&A (10min)

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http://www.chenshake.com/openstack-deployment-tool-summary/
• Fuel （Mirantis）
• Devstack
• Crowbar
• Cobbler
• RDO
• Packstack
• TripleO

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Foreman & Puppet
Network
Controller
Compute
Compute
Compute
Compute
Network
Controller
Compute
Compute
Compute
Compute
Ironic
VM
VM
VM
VM
Bare
metal

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Foreman Server
(include Puppet Master +PXE server)
Bare Metal #1
Ubuntu14.04 #1
with Puppet agent
Control Node
Bare Metal #2
Ubuntu14.04 #2
with Puppet agent
Computer Node
Bare Metal #3
Ubuntu14.04 #3
with Puppet agent
Network Node
Bare Metal #4
Ubuntu14.04 #4
with Puppet agent
Ironic Node
PXE
Puppet
PXE PXE PXE
PuppetPuppetPuppet

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Foreman
GUI
Add Preseed
Templates
Add Partition
Template
Add Ubuntu
14.04 OS
Add a
Domain
Ubuntu
14.04 Bare Metal Add a Host
Add 2
Subnet
CIMC (change BIOS
boot from PXE, Reboot)
CIMC (change BIOS boot
from HardDisk, Reboot)

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Puppet
OpenStack
Module Install
common.yaml
configuration
site.pp
configuration
OpenStack
auto
Deployment
Start
Puppet
OpenStack
Module Insta
Computer
Network
Control
Wait 2 hours，
Installation is
done

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• The puppetlabs-openstack module is used to deploy a multi-
node, all-in-one, or swift-only installation of OpenStack.
• Install puppet module
puppet module install puppetlabs-openstack
or git clone https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-openstack.git

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Each node needs a minimum of two network interfaces, and up to four.
The network interfaces are divided into two groups.
• Public interfaces:
API network.
External network.
• Internal interfaces:
Management network.
Data network.

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openstack::region: 'openstack’
######## Networks
openstack::network::api: '10.74.116.0/24'
openstack::network::external: '10.74.116.0/24'
openstack::network::management: '10.74.15.0/24'
openstack::network::data: '10.74.15.0/24’
openstack::network::external::ippool::start: 10.74.116.165
openstack::network::external::ippool::end: 10.74.116.168
openstack::network::external::gateway: 10.74.116.1
openstack::network::external::dns: 64.104.123.144
]
######## Private Neutron Network
openstack::network::neutron::private: '10.0.0.0/24'
######## Fixed IPs (controllers)
openstack::controller::address::api: '10.74.116.163'
openstack::controller::address::management: '10.74.15.85'
openstack::storage::address::api: '10.74.116.163'
openstack::storage::address::management: '10.74.15.85'
######## Database
openstack::mysql::root_password: 'spam-gak'
openstack::mysql::service_password: 'fuva-wax'
openstack::mysql::allowed_hosts: ['localhost', '127.0.0.1',
'10.74.15.%’
… …

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node 'control' {
include ::openstack::role::controller
}
node 'network' {
include ::openstack::role::network
}
node 'compute' {
include ::openstack::role::compute
}

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Controller Node
nova-api
nova-cert
nova-conductor
nova-consoleauth
nova-novncproxy
nova-scheduler
keystone
neutron-server
glance-api
glance-registry
dashboard
MySQL Server
RabbitMQ Server
NTP
Network Node Compute Node Ironic Node
neutron-dhcp-agent
neutron-l3-agent
neutron-metadata-agent
neutron-ovs-cleanup
neutron-plugin-
openvswitch-agent
RabbitMQ Client
NTP
nova-compute
neutron-ovs-cleanup
neutron-plugin-
openvswitch-agent
RabbitMQ Client
NTP
Hypervisor + libvirt
MySQL Client
tftp-hpa
openipmi
NTP
ironic-api
ironic-conductor

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Foreman TOI
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 Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical
and virtual servers.
 Foreman is an open source tool that can help with the
management of servers, by providing an easy way to interact with
Puppet (or Chef) to automate tasks and application deployment.
 Foreman provides a robust web user interface, API, and CLI
which can be used to provision, configure, and monitor your
servers.

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• The Smart Proxy is a project which provides a restful API to various sub-systems
• DHCP - ISC DHCP and MS DHCP Servers
• DNS - Bind and MS DNS Servers
• TFTP - any UNIX based tftp server
• Puppet - Any Puppet server from 0.24.x
• Puppet CA - Manage certificate signing, cleaning and autosign on a Puppet CA server
• Realm - Manage host registration to a realm (e.g. FreeIPA)

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• A lot of options
• Interactive installation: -I
• Enables/disables stuff
• Creates a puppet tree skeleton

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• Bare metal and virtual machine
• Install any distribution
• Configure almost everything
• Decentralized (control remote TFTP, DNS, DHCP)
• ERB Scripting

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• Trigger Puppet runs
• Advanced use: parameters,…
• History of changes
• ENC ( External Node Classifiers ) is optional

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• Visualize changes
• See the full logs
• View the facts

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• Libvirt
• EC2
• OpenStack
• Google Compute Engine
• oVirt
• VMWare

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• Depending on the provider
• Unattended installation
• Image-based install
• Power management
• Console (noVNC)

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• CentOS/RHEL
• Fedora
• Ubuntu/Debian
• Suse
• Solaris

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• Puppet-ca proxy
• Takes care of signing certificates
• Trigger first puppet run
• Run first puppet run in loop (before reboot)

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• Very detailed
• History
• Host Configuration Status
• Overview of the last reports

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• Default provisioning parameters
• Puppet classes
• Network configuration

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• Command line to foreman
• Scripting
• Automation
• Without browser (e.g no http(s) access)

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• Multiple Puppet Masters
• Multiple Smart Proxies
• Foreman talks with the CA
• Multiple compute resources

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• Foreman plugins are implemented as gems
• RPM Installations
• Debian Installations
• Gems Installations

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• From small labs to larger environments
• Interactions with RESTful API
• Complete puppet management
• Bare Metal and virtual machines

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Puppet TOI
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• Puppet is a configuration management system that allows you to define
the state of your IT infrastructure, then automatically enforces the
correct state.
• Fact colletction
• Catalog compilation
• Enforcement
• Report
• Report sharing

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• stackforge/puppet-ceph
• stackforge/puppet-cinder
• stackforge/puppet-designate
• stackforge/puppet-glance
• stackforge/puppet-heat
• stackforge/puppet-horizon
• stackforge/puppet-ironic
• stackforge/puppet-keystone
• stackforge/puppet-manila
• stackforge/puppet-neutron
• stackforge/puppet-nova
• stackforge/puppet-openstack
• stackforge/puppet-sahara
• stackforge/puppet-swift
• stackforge/puppet-tempest
• stackforge/puppet-trove
• stackforge/puppet-tuskar
• stackforge/puppet-vswitch
• stackforge/puppet-openstacklib
• stackforge/puppet-openstack-specs
• stackforge/puppet-openstack_extras

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