I recently tried to set up OpenStack with docker as the hypervisor on a single node and I ran into mountains of trouble. I tried with DevStack and entirely failed using both the master branch and stable/havana. After much work I was able to launch container but the network was not right. Ultimately I found a path that worked. This post explains how I did this.
The first step is to have a VM that can support this. Because I was using RDO this needed to be a Red Hat derivative. I originally chose a stock vagrant CentOS 6.5 VM. I got everything set up and then ran out of disk space (many bad words were said). Thus I used packer and the templates here to create a CentOS VM with 40GB of disk space. I had to change the “disk_size” value under “builders” to something larger than 40000. Then I ran the build.
packer build template.json
When this completed I had a centos-6.5 vagrant box ready to boot.
I wanted to manage this VM with Vagrant and because OpenStack is fairly intolerant to HOST_IP changes I had to inject in an interface with a static IP address. Below is the Vagrant file I used:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "centos-6.5-base" config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "172.16.129.26" ES_OS_MEM = 3072 ES_OS_CPUS = 1 config.vm.hostname = "rdodocker" config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb| vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", ES_OS_MEM] vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", ES_OS_CPUS] end end
After running vagrant up to boot this VM I got the following error:
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed! /sbin/ifdown eth1 2> /dev/null Stdout from the command: Stderr from the command:
Thankfully this was easily solved. I sshed into the VM with vagrant ssh, and then ran the following:
cat <<EOM | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 >/dev/null
DEVICE="eth1"
ONBOOT="yes"
TYPE="Ethernet"
EOM
After that I exited from the ssh session and repackaged the VM with vagrant package –output centos-6.5-goodnet.box. I added the new box to vagrant and altered my Vagrant file to boot it. I now had a base image on which I could install OpenStack.
Through much trial and error I came to the conclusion that I needed the icehouse development release of RDO. Unfortunately this alone was not enough to properly handle docker. I also had to install nova from the master branch into a python virtualenv and reconfigure the box to use that nova code. This section has the specifics of what I did.
I followed the instructions for installing RDO that are here, only instead of running packstack –allinone I used a custom answer file. I generated a template answer file with the command packstack –gen-answer-file=~/answers.txt. Then I opened that file and I substituted out ever IP address with the IP address that vagrant was injecting into my VM (in my case this was 172.16.129.26). I also set the following:
CONFIG_NEUTRON_INSTALL=n
This is very important. The docker driver does not work with neutron. (I learned this the hard way). I then installed RDO with the command packstack –answerfile answers.txt.
Once RDO was installed and working (without docker) I set up the VM such that nova would use docker. The instructions here are basically what I followed. Here is my command set:
sudo yum -y install docker-io sudo service docker start sudo chkconfig docker on sudo yum -y install docker-registry sudo usermod -G docker nova sudo service redis start sudo chkconfig redis on sudo service docker-registry start sudo chkconfig docker-registry on
I edited the file /etc/sysconfig/docker-registry and add the following:
export SETTINGS_FLAVOR=openstack export REGISTRY_PORT=5042 . /root/keystonerc_admin export OS_GLANCE_URL=http://172.16.129.26:9292
Note that some of the values in that file were already set. I removed those entires.
I changed this entry in /etc/nova/nova.conf
compute_driver = docker.DockerDriver
this value (and uncommented it) in /etc/glance/glance-api.conf:
container_formats = ami,ari,aki,bare,ovf,docker
Unfortunately docker does not work with the current release of RDO icehouse. Therefore I had to get the latest code from the master branch of nova. Further I had to install it. To be safe I put it in its own python virtualenv. In order to install nova like this a lot of dependencies must be installed. Here is the yum command I used to install what I needed (and in some cases just wanted).
yum update yum install -y telnet git libxslt-devel libffi-devel python-virtualenv mysql-devel
Then I installed nova and its package specific dependencies into a virtualenv that I created. The command sequence is below:
git clone https://github.com/openstack/nova.git virtualenv --no-site-packages /usr/local/OPENSTACKVE source /usr/local/OPENSTACKVE/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt pip install qpid-python pip install mysql-python python setup.py install
At this point I had an updated version of the nova software but it was running against an old version of the data base. Thus I had to run:
nova-manage db sync
The final step was to change all of the nova startup scripts to point to the code in the virtualenv instead of the code installed to the system. I did this by opening up every file at /etc/init.d/openstack-nova-* and changing the exec=”/usr/bin/nova-$suffix” line to exec=”/usr/local/OPENSTACKVE/bin/nova-$suffix”. I then rebooted the VM and I was FINALLY all set to launch docker containers that I could ssh into!
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