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Getting Started Gaia-X Demonstrator @ PlusServer
2021-05-06-001
Mathias Fechner

Getting Started for the Gaia-X Demonstrator @ PlusServer

First Steps

URLs for access

Software Components

Openstack V - Release (Victoria)

  • Core Components (Keystone - auth, Cinder - block storage, Nova - compute, Glance - images, Neutron - networking)
  • Heat (Orchestration)
  • DNS (Designate)
  • Loadbalancer (Octavia)
  • Object Storage (Swift and S3 protocol via RadosGW, see below)
  • Secrets Management (Barbican) and Cloud Container Engine (Magnum)
  • A standard set of current Linux cloud images (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Cirros, Clear Linux) with the standard cloud-init included for processing of user_data to customize them. The images are kept up-to-date, so a package_upgrade: true should not lead to excessive boot time.

Ceph N - Release (Nautilus)

  • Block-storage
  • Object-storage (S3 and Swift via radosgw)

K8S Cluster Management

We have not yet aligned on a standard built-in solution, as none of the Open Source solutions fully uses and implements the k8s cluster API really well. We have done successful PoCs with Rancher, Kubermatic and SAP Gardener, and the automation for them can be found on https://github.com/SovereignCloudStack/

We have currently people working on the OpenStack k8s cluster API provider and on Gardener to integrate something out of the box, possibly leveraging Magnum to create a seed cluster on demand.

Automation Tools

Continuous automated rollout in docker containers

  • Base install with MaaS, Netbox, Linux, KVM on Bare Metal
  • OSISM with kolla-ansible, ceph-ansible, infra tooling (database, msgQ, ...)
  • Monitoring tools (netdata, prometheus, ...) for operations
  • Lifecycle Management & Updates (patchman)
  • Validation (CI) with smoke tests, refstack, openstack-health-monitor

OVN OpenVirtualNetwork SDN

  • OVN 20.09.0

OVN characteristics

in OVS Networks VXLAN-based MTU was 1450, in OVN we are using Geneve where the MTU changed to 1442. in some Container deployments with SDN it is recommendable to use a MTU with maximum 1400

Client Software Requirements

Debian Based Family (Debian, Ubuntu)

apt install python3-openstackclient

RPM Based Family (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, or FedorcoreOS)

dnf install https://www.rdoproject.org/repos/rdo-release.el8.rpm;
dnf install python-openstackclient

RPM Based Family (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, CentOS 7)

yum install centos-release-openstack-victoria;
yum config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools;
yum install python-openstackclient

SuSE

#zypper ar -f obs://Cloud:OpenStack:Victoria/ Cloud:OpenStack:Victoria
zypper install python-PROJECTclient

MacOS

brew install openstackclient

PIP

pip install python-openstackclient

Windows

C:\>pip install python-PROJECTclient

the Openstack CLI

# openstack
(openstack) server ...
(openstack) network ...
(openstack) volume  ...
(openstack) image ...

Continue "..." with enter to show all options

Under the item API: you will find the OpenRC file to source in to your environment or alternatively (better) you add the downloadable clouds.yaml (and secure.yaml) to your ~/.config/openstack/ directory and set OS_CLOUD or pass --os-cloud=.

Object Storage (S3)

Create AWS like credentials with openstack ec2 credentials create. If you use libs3, store the access field in S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID and the secret field in S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and set S3_HOSTNAME=gx-scs.okeanos.dev:8080. You will see the same buckets (containers) and objects whether you access your object store via the swift or via the s3 protocol.

Automation

  • ansible os_auth, os_server

  • terraform openstack/provider OSISM

Authentication (UI)

For your login you will need:

  • Domain
  • Username
  • Password

in case of Keycloak you will need just Username and Password.

Contact us if you want to use keycloak to federate identities from another identity provider.

References

OpenStack SovereignCloudStack OSISM Ceph OpenvSwitch ansible Terraform cloud-init