How to configure worker node

In the following I will describe how to configure the worker node. I assume that the worker node has been already installed following the instructions posted on this blog.


Firs of all, before we start, we still need to add nova-network (it has not been installed so far).

Do:

yum install openstack-nova-network

Once this is done, we can go on and edit the /etc/nova/nova.conf file.

First, add to the file the option

--daemonize=1 

The relevant switches are:

--sql_connection
--s3_host
--rabbit_host
--ec2_api
--ec2_url
--fixed_range
--network_size

In the end the configuration file should look like:

--auth_driver=nova.auth.dbdriver.DbDriver
--buckets_path=/var/lib/nova/buckets
--ca_path=/var/lib/nova/CA
--cc_host=
--credentials_template=/usr/share/nova/novarc.template
--daemonize=1
--dhcpbridge_flagfile=/etc/nova/nova.conf
--dhcpbridge=/usr/bin/nova-dhcpbridge
--ec2_api=130.199.148.53
--ec2_url=http://130.199.148.53:8773/services/Cloud
--fixed_range=192.168.0.0/16
--glance_host=
--glance_port=9292
--image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService
--images_path=/var/lib/nova/images
--injected_network_template=/usr/share/nova/interfaces.rhel.template
--instances_path=/var/lib/nova/instances
--keys_path=/var/lib/nova/keys
--libvirt_type=kvm
--libvirt_xml_template=/usr/share/nova/libvirt.xml.template
--lock_path=/var/lib/nova/tmp
--logdir=/var/log/nova
--logging_context_format_string=%(asctime)s %(name)s: %(levelname)s [%(request_id)s %(user)s %(project)s] %(message)s
--logging_debug_format_suffix=
--logging_default_format_string=%(asctime)s %(name)s: %(message)s
--network_manager=nova.network.manager.VlanManager
--networks_path=/var/lib/nova/networks
--network_size=8
--node_availability_zone=nova
--rabbit_host=130.199.148.53
--routing_source_ip=130.199.148.53
--s3_host=130.199.148.53
--scheduler_driver=nova.scheduler.zone.ZoneScheduler
--sql_connection=mysql://{USER}:{PWD}@130.199.148.53/{DATABASE}
--state_path=/var/lib/nova
--use_cow_images=true
--use_ipv6=false
--use_s3=true
--use_syslog=false
--verbose=false
--vpn_client_template=/usr/share/nova/client.ovpn.template

where {USER},{PWD} and {DATABASE} denote nova database user, pasword and database name.

Now go to the controller node and open the following ports for incoming connections: 3333,3306,5672,8773,8000.

Go back to worker node and prepare /root/bin/openstack-init.sh script with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
for n in ajax-console-proxy compute vncproxy network; do
service openstack-nova-$n $@;
done

Then run

/root/bin/openstack-init.sh stop
Stopping OpenStack Nova Web-based serial console proxy: [ OK ]
Stopping OpenStack Nova Compute Worker: [ OK ]
Stopping OpenStack Nova VNC Proxy: [ OK ]
Stopping OpenStack Nova Network Controller: [ OK ]
[root@gridreserve30 compute]# /root/bin/openstack-init.sh start
Starting OpenStack Nova Web-based serial console proxy: [ OK ]
Starting OpenStack Nova Compute Worker: [ OK ]
Starting OpenStack Nova VNC Proxy: [ OK ]
Starting OpenStack Nova Network Controller: [ OK ]

to be continued...