Example Packstack answer file with vxlan
Building on my previous post form James, Packstack is a pretty handy tool. Packstack is designed to easily set up test or proof-of-concept deployments. It uses Puppet modules to enable rapid deployment of OpenStack on existing servers over an SSH connection. PackStack does however make many assumptions in its configuration to simplify the installation process, and is not suitable for production deployments. Also it cannot deploy services in a highly available or load balanced configuration. See the Red Hat docs for more info.
vxlan has become the default plugin for layer2 networking for Neutron via the ML2 plugin, and makes deploying a simple multi-node configuration pretty straight forward. The example Packstack answer file below will produce a working OpenStack environment with three nodes, one controller, one networking node, and one compute node. It assumes two separate network segments, one on eth0 (public)and one on eth1(private). The public network contains the 192.168.1000/24 subnet and how the OpenStack services communicate between nodes and with the outside world. The private network is for our tenant networks and will contain the vxlan tunnels, this can be changed with the CONFIG_NEUTRON_OVS_TUNNEL_IF=eth1 option in the answer file below……
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OpenStack Packstack Installation with External Connectivity
Handy info, specifically in regards to network-scripts
Packstack makes installing OpenStack REALLY easy. By using the –allinone option you could have a working self-contained RDO installation in minutes (and most of those minutes are spent waiting for packages to install). However, the –allinone option really should be renamed to the –onlywithinone today, because while it makes the installation very simple it doesn’t allow for instances spun up on the resulting OpenStack environment to be reachable from external systems. This can be a problem if you are trying to both bring up an OpenStack environment quickly and demonstrate integration with systems outside of OpenStack. With a lot of help and education from Perry Myers and Terry Wilson on Red Hat’s RDO team I was able to make a few modifications to the packstack installation to allow a user to use the packstack installation with –allinone and have external access to the instances launched on the host. While I’m…
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