Undercloud Installation

Getting Started with Napatech Link-Virtualization™ Software
Platform
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Getting Started
Getting Started Guide
Capture Software Version
Link-Virtualization™ Software 4.5

About this task

This describes how to install the undercloud.

Before you begin

It is required to have a minimum of 200 GB available disk space for the root partition and 200 GB available disk space for the /home partition.

Procedure

  1. Create the stack user. 
    sudo useradd stack
echo "stack ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL" | sudo tee -a \
/etc/sudoers.d/stack
sudo chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/stack
su - stack
  2. Configure the undercloud hostname.
    The undercloud requires a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) for its installation and configuration process. Use hostnamectl to set the hostname as shown in the following example.
    sudo hostnamectl set-hostname myhost.mydomain
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname --transient myhost.mydomain
    Edit the /etc/hosts file. 
    sudo vim /etc/hosts
    Add the following line to the /etc/hosts file.
    127.0.0.1   myhost.mydomain myhost
    Note: If the /etc/hosts file already contains a line with 127.0.0.1, append myhost.mydomain myhost to the end of the existing line.
  3. Add repositories for undercloud and overcloud deployment. 
    sudo yum install -y yum-utils

sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/delorean.repo \
https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8/current-tripleo/delorean.repo

sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/delorean-current.repo \
https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8/current/delorean.repo

sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/delorean-deps.repo \
https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8/delorean-deps.repo
  4. Edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/delorean-current.repo file. 
    sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/delorean-current.repo
    Add the following as one line to the end of the /etc/yum.repos.d/delorean-current.repo file.
    includepkgs=diskimage-builder,instack,instack-undercloud,os-apply-config,os-cloud-config,os-collect-config,
os-net-config,os-refresh-config,python-tripleoclient,tripleo-common,openstack-tripleo-heat-templates,
openstack-tripleo-image-elements,openstack-tripleo,openstack-tripleo-puppet-elements,openstack-puppet-modules
  5. Install the python3-tripleo-repos RPM from the appropriate RDO repository.
    See the current RPO repository at https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8/component/tripleo/current/ to find the latest python3-tripleo-repos RPM.
    sudo dnf install -y \
https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8/component/tripleo/current/python3-tripleo-repos-<latest>.rpm
    For example:
    sudo dnf install -y \
https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8/component/tripleo/current/python3-tripleo-repos-0.1.1-0.20220201181859.87c9879.el8.noarch.rpm
  6. Enable the current Victoria repositories. 
    sudo -E tripleo-repos -b victoria current
    An output example:
    Removed old repo "/etc/yum.repos.d/delorean.repo"
Removed old repo "/etc/yum.repos.d/delorean-deps.repo"
Removed old repo "/etc/yum.repos.d/delorean-current.repo"
Installed repo delorean to /etc/yum.repos.d/delorean.repo
Installed repo delorean-victoria-testing to /etc/yum.repos.d/delorean-victoria-testing.repo
Installed repo tripleo-centos-highavailability to /etc/yum.repos.d/tripleo-centos-highavailability.repo
Installed repo tripleo-centos-powertools to /etc/yum.repos.d/tripleo-centos-powertools.repo
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    Update and reboot.
    sudo dnf update -y
sudo reboot
    Note: Do not enable any other repositories unless they are explicitly marked for the target release.
  7. Switch to the stack user after reboot, and install required packages. 
    su - stack
sudo dnf -y install python3-proliantutils
sudo dnf -y install python3-tripleoclient
 
sudo dnf -y module reset container-tools
sudo dnf -y module enable container-tools:3.0
  8. Update the provided undercloud.conf file in the tripleo package. 
    vim undercloud.conf
    Set local_interface to the name of the network interface which is reserved for the provisioning network. It is eno2 in this example.
    local_interface = eno2
    Place the file in the /home/stack/ directory.
    cp undercloud.conf /home/stack
    Note: You don't have to configure the network interface for the provisioning network as it will be configured during undercloud deployment.
  9. Update the file system for the undercloud to pass. 
    sudo chmod -R a+rwX /root
sudo mkdir /etc/cni/net.d/
  10. Install the undercloud. 
    openstack undercloud install
    An output example:
    ...
########################################################
Deployment successful!
########################################################
 
Writing the stack virtual update mark file /var/lib/tripleo-heat-installer/update_mark_undercloud
 
##########################################################
The Undercloud has been successfully installed.
 
Useful files:
 
Password file is at /home/stack/undercloud-passwords.conf
The stackrc file is at ~/stackrc
 
Use these files to interact with OpenStack services, and
ensure they are secured.
##########################################################
    Note: If it fails to deploy the undercloud because some packages are not installed, make sure that the repositories are configured properly, and all the required packages are installed as described in the previous steps. If some packages are not installed, the following steps should be executed:
    1. Install the packages.
    2. Reboot.
    3. Install the undercloud again.
      openstack undercloud install
    Note: To redeploy an undercloud, clean the undercloud using the following procedure.
    1. Get list of the containers ID in the shell construction and delete all containers.
      id = $( sudo podman ps -a | awk '{ print $1}')
for i in $p; do podman rm $i ; done
    2. Reboot the director node.
    3. Install the undercloud again.