Mastering OpenStack - Episode 04 - Provisioning and Deployment

Presentation By:
Roozbeh Shafiee
Summer 2015
IRAN OpenStack Users Group
MASTERING
OPENSTACK
(Episode 04)
Provisioning and
Deployment

IRAN Community| OpenStack.ir
Agenda:
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Automated Deployment
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Automated Configuration
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Disk Partitioning and RAID
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Hardware Requirement For Nodes
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Remote Management
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Iran OpenStack Community
OpenStack Provisioning and Deployment

Automated Deployment

Automated Deployment:
A critical part of a cloud’s scalability is the amount of effort that it takes to run
Your cloud. To minimize the operational cost of running your cloud, set up and
use an automated deployment and configuration infrastructure with a
configuration management system, such as Puppet or Chef. Combined, these
systems greatly reduce manual effort and the chance for operator error.

Manual Tasks Before Automating:
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Physical racking
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MAC-to-IP assignment
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Power configuration

In Order to Automating:
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PXE boot and TFTP servers for installing OS
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Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux include mechanisms for automating installation
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Preseed and Kickstart automate post install tasks
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Alternatively use own images or image-based approaches
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You can use both approaches with a virtualized infrastructure and physical
infrastructure.

Automated Configuration

Automated Configuration:
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Automatic configuration management is to establish and maintain the
consistency of a system without using human intervention.
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You want to maintain consistency in your deployments so that you can have the
same cloud every time, repeatably.
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Proper use of automatic configuration-management tools ensures that
components of the cloud systems are in particular states, in addition to
simplifying deployment, and configuration change propagation.

Automation Tools:
These tools also make it possible to test and roll back changes, as they are fully
repeatable. Conveniently, a large body of work has been done by the OpenStack
Community in this space.
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Puppet, a configuration management tool, provides official modules for
OpenStack in an OpenStack infrastructure system known as Stackforge.
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PackStack, the command-line utility for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives
that uses Puppet modules to support rapid deployment of OpenStack on existing
servers over an SSH connection.
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Chef, Ubuntu Juju, Ansible and Salt

Disk Partitioning and RAID

Disk Partitioning and RAID:
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Partitioning, which provides greater flexibility for layout of operating system and
swap space
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Adding to a RAID array based on the number of disks you have available
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File system to store files and directories, where all the data lives, including the
root partition that starts and runs the system
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Swap space to free up memory for processes, as an independent area of the
physical disk used only for swapping and nothing else

Option 1 for Partitioning and RAID:
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You can assign different partitions to different RAID arrays.
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Allocate partition 1 of disk one and two to the /boot partition mirror.
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Make partition 2 of all disks the root partition mirror.
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Use partition 3 of all disks for a cinder-volumes LVM partition running on a
RAID 10 array
While you might end up with unused partitions, such as partition 1 in disk three
and four of this example, this option allows for maximum utilization of disk space.
I/O performance might be an issue as a result of all disks being used for all tasks.

Option 1 Simple Schema:

Option 1 Schema:

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Add all raw disks to one large RAID array, either hardware or software based.
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You can partition this large array with the boot, root, swap, and LVM areas.
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This option is simple to implement and uses all partitions. However, disk I/O might
suffer.

Option 2 Schema:

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Dedicate entire disks to certain partitions. You could allocate disk one and two
entirely to the boot, root, and swap partitions under a RAID 1 mirror.
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Allocate disk three and four entirely to the LVM partition, also under a
RAID 1 mirror for a cinder-volumes
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Disk I/O should be better because I/O is focused on dedicated tasks. However,
the LVM partition is much smaller.

Option 3 Schema:

Hardware Requirement For Nodes

Hardware Requirement For Nodes:
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Hardware for controller nodes, used for all stateless OpenStack API services.
About 32–64 GB memory, small attached disk, one processor, varied number of
cores, such as 6–12.
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Hardware for compute nodes. Typically 256 or 144 GB memory, two processors,
24 cores. 4–6 TB direct attached storage, typically in a RAID 5 configuration.
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Hardware for network nodes. Typically 256 or 144 GB memory, two processors,
12 cores. 2–4 TB direct attached storage, typically in a RAID 5 configuration.
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Hardware for storage nodes. Typically for these, the disk space is optimized for
the lowest cost per GB of storage while maintaining rack-space efficiency.

Remote Management

Remote Management:
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most operators don’t sit right next to the servers running the cloud, and many
don’t necessarily enjoy visiting the data center.
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OpenStack should be entirely remotely configurable, but sometimes not
everything goes according to plan.
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having an out-of-band access into nodes running OpenStack components is a boon.
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The IPMI protocol is the de facto standard, and acquiring hardware that supports
it is highly recommended to achieve that lights-out data center aim.
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IPMI usually controls the server’s power state, having remote access to the PDU
that the server is plugged into can really be useful for situations when everything
seems wedged.

Iran OpenStack Community

Stay in Touch and Join Us:
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Home Page: OpenStack.ir
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Meetup Page: Meetup.com/Iran-OpenStack
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Mailing List: OpenStack-ir@Lists.OpenStack.org
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Twitter: @OpenStackIR , #OpenStackIRAN
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IRC Channel on FreeNode#OpenStack-ir

Roozbeh Shafiee
Iran OpenStack Community Manager
Roozbeh@OpenStack.ir
OpenStack.ir
Thank You
We need to work together to build a better community

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