Jumphost Requirements

The Jumphost requirements are outlined below:

1. CentOS 7 (from ISO or self-installed).
2. Root access.
3. libvirt or other hypervisors disabled (no kernel modules loaded).
4. 3-4 NICs, untagged (no 802.1Q tagging), with IP addresses.
5. Internet access for downloading packages, with a default gateway configured.
6. 4 GB of RAM for a bare metal deployment, 24 GB of RAM for a VM deployment.

Network Requirements

Network requirements include:

1. No DHCP or TFTP server running on networks used by OPNFV.
2. 3-4 separate VLANs (untagged) with connectivity between Jumphost and nodes (bare metal deployment only). These make up the admin, private, public and optional storage networks.
3. Lights out OOB network access from Jumphost with IPMI node enabled (bare metal deployment only).
4. Admin or public network has Internet access, meaning a gateway and DNS availability.

Note: Storage network will be consolidated to the private network if only 3 networks are used.

Bare Metal Node Requirements

Bare metal nodes require:

1. IPMI enabled on OOB interface for power control.
2. BIOS boot priority should be PXE first then local hard disk.
3. BIOS PXE interface should include admin network mentioned above.

Execution Requirements (Bare Metal Only)

In order to execute a deployment, one must gather the following information:

1. IPMI IP addresses for the nodes.
2. IPMI login information for the nodes (user/pass).
3. MAC address of admin interfaces on nodes.
4. MAC address of private interfaces on 3 nodes that will be controllers.

Install Bare Metal Jumphost

1. If your Jumphost does not have CentOS 7 already on it, or you would like to do a fresh install, then download the Foreman/QuickStack bootable ISO <http://artifacts.opnfv.org/arno.2015.1.0/foreman/arno.2015.1.0.foreman.iso> here.
2. Boot the ISO off of a USB or other installation media and walk through installing OPNFV CentOS 7.
3. After OS is installed login to your Jumphost as root.
4. Configure IP addresses on 3-4 interfaces that you have selected as your admin, private, public, and storage (optional) networks.
5. Configure the IP gateway to the Internet either, preferably on the public interface.
6. Configure your /etc/resolv.conf to point to a DNS server (8.8.8.8 is provided by Google).
7. Disable selinux:
   • setenforce 0
   • sed -i 's/SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/' /etc/selinux/config
8. Disable firewalld:
   • systemctl stop firewalld
   • systemctl disable firewalld

Creating an Inventory File

You now need to take the MAC address/IPMI info gathered in section Execution Requirements (Bare Metal Only) and create the YAML inventory (also known as configuration) file for deploy.sh.

1. Copy the opnfv_ksgen_settings.yml file from /root/bgs_vagrant/ to another directory and rename it to be what you want EX: /root/my_ksgen_settings.yml
2. Edit the file in your favorite editor. There is a lot of information in this file, but you really only need to be concerned with the "nodes:" dictionary.
3. The nodes dictionary contains each bare metal host you want to deploy. You can have 1 or more compute nodes and must have 3 controller nodes (these are already defined for you). It is optional at this point to add more compute nodes into the dictionary. You must use a different name, hostname, short_name and dictionary keyname for each node.
4. Once you have decided on your node definitions you now need to modify the MAC address/IPMI info dependent on your hardware. Edit the following values for each node:
   • mac_address: change to MAC address of that node's admin NIC (defaults to 1st NIC)
   • bmc_ip: change to IP Address of BMC (out-of-band)/IPMI IP
   • bmc_mac: same as above, but MAC address
   • bmc_user: IPMI username
   • bmc_pass: IPMI password
5. Also edit the following for only controller nodes:
   • private_mac - change to MAC address of node's private NIC (default to 2nd NIC)
6. Save your changes.

Running deploy.sh

You are now ready to deploy OPNFV! deploy.sh will use your /tmp/ directory to store its Vagrant VMs. Your Foreman/QuickStack Vagrant VM will be running out of /tmp/bgs_vagrant.

It is also recommended that you power off your nodes before running deploy.sh If there are DHCP servers or other network services that are on those nodes it may conflict with the installation.

Follow the steps below to execute:

1. cd /root/bgs_vagrant
2. ./deploy.sh -base_config </root/my_ksgen_settings.yml>
3. It will take about 20-25 minutes to install Foreman/QuickStack VM. If something goes wrong during this part of the process, it is most likely a problem with the setup of your Jumphost. You will also notice different outputs in your shell. When you see messages that say "TASK:" or "PLAY:" this is Khalessi running and installing Foreman/QuickStack inside of your VM or deploying your nodes. Look for "PLAY [Deploy Nodes]" as a sign that Foreman/QuickStack is finished installing and now your nodes are being rebuilt.
4. Your nodes will take 40-60 minutes to re-install CentOS 7 and install/configure OPNFV. When complete you will see "Finished: SUCCESS"

Verifying the Setup

Now that the installer has finished it is a good idea to check and make sure things are working correctly. To access your Foreman/QuickStack VM:

1. cd /tmp/bgs_vagrant

2. vagrant ssh (password is "vagrant")

3. You are now in the VM and can check the status of Foreman service, etc. For example: systemctl status foreman

4. Type "exit" and leave the Vagrant VM. Now execute: cat /tmp/bgs_vagrant/opnfv_ksgen_settings.yml | grep foreman_url

5. This is your Foreman URL on your public interface. You can go to your web browser, http://<foreman_ip>, login will be "admin"/"octopus". This way you can look around in Foreman and check that your hosts are in a good state, etc.

6. In Foreman GUI, you can now go to Infrastructure -> Global Parameters. This is a list of all the variables being handed to Puppet for configuring OPNFV. Look for horizon_public_vip. This is your IP address to Horizon GUI.

   Note: You can find out more about how to ues Foreman by going to http://www.theforeman.org/ or by watching a walkthrough video here: https://bluejeans.com/s/89gb/

7. Now go to your web browser and insert the Horizon public VIP. The login will be "admin"/"octopus".

8. You are now able to follow the OpenStack Verification section.

OpenStack Verification

Now that you have Horizon access, let's make sure OpenStack the OPNFV target system are working correctly:

1. In Horizon, click Project -> Compute -> Volumes, Create Volume
2. Make a volume "test_volume" of size 1 GB
3. Now in the left pane, click Compute -> Images, click Create Image
4. Insert a name "cirros", Insert an Image Location http://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.3.3/cirros-0.3.3-x86_64-disk.img
5. Select format "QCOW2", select Public, then hit Create Image
6. Now click Project -> Network -> Networks, click Create Network
7. Enter a name "test_network", click Next
8. Enter a subnet name "test_subnet", and enter Network Address 10.0.0.0/24, click Next
9. Enter 10.0.0.5,10.0.0.9 under Allocation Pools, then hit Create
10. Now go to Project -> Compute -> Instances, click Launch Instance
11. Enter Instance Name "cirros1", select Instance Boot Source "Boot from image", and then select Image Name "cirros"
12. Click Launch, status should show "Spawning" while it is being built
13. You can now repeat steps 11 and 12, but create a "cirros2" named instance
14. Once both instances are up you can see their IP addresses on the Instances page. Click the Instance Name of cirros1.
15. Now click the "Console" tab and login as "cirros"/"cubswin" :)
16. Verify you can ping the IP address of cirros2

Congratulations you have successfully installed OPNFV!

Install Jumphost

Follow the instructions in the Install Bare Metal Jumphost section.

Running deploy.sh

You are now ready to deploy OPNFV! deploy.sh will use your /tmp/ directory to store its Vagrant VMs. Your Foreman/QuickStack Vagrant VM will run out of /tmp/bgs_vagrant. Your compute and subsequent controller nodes will run in:

• /tmp/compute
• /tmp/controller1
• /tmp/controller2
• /tmp/controller3

Each VM will be brought up and bridged to your Jumphost NICs. deploy.sh will first bring up your Foreman/QuickStack Vagrant VM and afterwards it will bring up each of the nodes listed above, in order.

Follow the steps below to execute:

1. cd /root/bgs_vagrant
2. ./deploy.sh -virtual
3. It will take about 20-25 minutes to install Foreman/QuickStack VM. If something goes wrong during this part of the process, it is most likely a problem with the setup of your Jumphost. You will also notice different outputs in your shell. When you see messages that say "TASK:" or "PLAY:" this is Khalessi running and installing Foreman/QuickStack inside of your VM or deploying your nodes. When you see "Foreman is up!", that means deploy will now move on to bringing up your other nodes.
4. deploy.sh will now bring up your other nodes, look for logging messages like "Starting Vagrant Node <node name>", "<node name> VM is up!" These are indicators of how far along in the process you are. deploy.sh will start each Vagrant VM, then run provisioning scripts to inform Foreman they are built and initiate Puppet.
5. The speed at which nodes are provisioned is totally dependent on your Jumphost server specs. When complete you will see "All VMs are UP!"

Verifying the Setup - VMs

Follow the instructions in the Verifying the Setup section.

Also, for VM deployment you are able to easily access your nodes by going to /tmp/<node name> and then vagrant ssh (password is "vagrant"). You can use this to go to a controller and check OpenStack services, OpenDaylight, etc.

OpenStack Verification - VMs

Follow the steps in OpenStack Verification section.

OPNFV

OPNFV Home Page

OPNFV Genesis project page

OpenStack

OpenStack Juno Release artifacts

OpenStack documentation

OpenDaylight

Upstream OpenDaylight provides a number of packaging and deployment options meant for consumption by downstream projects like OPNFV.

Currently, OPNFV Foreman uses OpenDaylight's Puppet module, which in turn depends on OpenDaylight's RPM.

Note that the RPM is currently hosted on Copr, but will soon be migrated to OpenDaylight's infrastructure and/or the new CentOS NFV SIG.

Foreman

Foreman documentation

Documentation tracking

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