Nova consoleauth

OpenStack Nova consoleauth service installation

Tested on Ubuntu Precise (12.04) and Trusty (14.04)

Requirements

A RabbitMQ server. See below.

For RHEL/CentOS, RHOSP or RDO repositories are needed.

Role Variables

Nova consoleauth (set by this role)

Name	Default value	Description	Note
nova_consoleauth_database_url	sqlite:////var/lib/nova/nova.sqlite	Database URI
nova_consoleauth_my_ip	{{ ansible_eth0.ipv4.address }}	Management IP for nova-consoleauth
nova_consoleauth_public_hostname	localhost	Publicly visible name for this console host
nova_consoleauth_token_ttl	600	How many seconds before deleting tokens
nova_consoleauth_manager	nova.consoleauth.manager.ConsoleAuthManager	Manager for console auth

RabbitMQ (must exist)

Name	Default value	Description	Note
nova_consoleauth_rabbit_userid	rabbit_username_default	RabbitMQ username for console auth
nova_consoleauth_rabbit_password	rabbit_pass_default	RabbitMQ password for console auth
nova_consoleauth_rabbit_virtual_host	/	RabbitMQ virtual host for console auth
nova_consoleauth_rabbit_retry_interval	1	Frequency to retry connecting to RabbitMQ
nova_consoleauth_rabbit_host	localhost	The RabbitMQ broker address where a single node is used
nova_consoleauth_rabbit_port	5672	The RabbitMQ broker port where a single node is used
nova_consoleauth_rabbit_hosts	$rabbit_host:$rabbit_port	RabbitMQ HA cluster host:port pairs
nova_consoleauth_rabbit_ha_queues	False	Use HA queues in RabbitMQ (x-ha-policy: all)

Memcached

Name	Default value	Description	Note
nova_consoleauth_memcached_servers	None	A comma delimited string of hostname:port combos where the Memcached service runs

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: consoleauth001
  roles:
    - role: openstack-nova_consoleauth
      nova_consoleauth_rabbit_userid: "openstack-nova"
      nova_consoleauth_rabbit_password: "{{ RABBIT_NOVA_PASS }}"

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A complete Ansible playbook demo, which uses this role, is available on Github (openstack-ansible-galaxy/vagrant-ansible-openstack) https://github.com/openstack-ansible-galaxy/vagrant-ansible-openstack

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Credits

RedHat support implemented by Abel Boldú [email protected]

License

Apache

Author Information

Davide Guerri - [email protected]