Sparse architecture

The Vagrant scripts deploy OpenStack with Open Virtual Network (OVN) using four nodes (five if you use the optional ovn-vtep node) to implement a minimal variant of the reference architecture:

1. ovn-db: Database node containing the OVN northbound (NB) and southbound (SB) databases via the Open vSwitch (OVS) database and ovn-northd services.

2. ovn-controller: Controller node containing the Identity service, Image service, control plane portion of the Compute service, control plane portion of the Networking service including the ovn ML2 driver, and the dashboard. In addition, the controller node is configured as an NFS server to support instance live migration between the two compute nodes.

3. ovn-compute1 and ovn-compute2: Two compute nodes containing the Compute hypervisor, ovn-controller service for OVN, metadata agents for the Networking service, and OVS services. In addition, the compute nodes are configured as NFS clients to support instance live migration between them.

4. ovn-vtep: Optional. A node to run the HW VTEP simulator. This node is not started by default but can be started by running “vagrant up ovn-vtep” after doing a normal “vagrant up”.

During deployment, Vagrant creates three VirtualBox networks:

1. Vagrant management network for deployment and VM access to external networks such as the Internet. Becomes the VM eth0 network interface.

2. OpenStack management network for the OpenStack control plane, OVN control plane, and OVN overlay networks. Becomes the VM eth1 network interface.

3. OVN provider network that connects OpenStack instances to external networks such as the Internet. Becomes the VM eth2 network interface.

Requirements

The default configuration requires approximately 12 GB of RAM and supports launching approximately four OpenStack instances using the m1.tiny flavor. You can change the amount of resources for each VM in the instances.yml file.

Deployment

1. Follow the pre-requisites described in Vagrant prerequisites

2. Clone the neutron repository locally and change to the neutron/vagrant/ovn/sparse directory:

   $ git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/neutron.git
   $ cd neutron/vagrant/ovn/sparse
   

3. If necessary, adjust any configuration in the instances.yml file.

   • If you change any IP addresses or networks, avoid conflicts with the host.

   • For evaluating large MTUs, adjust the mtu option. You must also change the MTU on the equivalent vboxnet interfaces on the host to the same value after Vagrant creates them. For example:

     # ip link set dev vboxnet0 mtu 9000
     # ip link set dev vboxnet1 mtu 9000
     

4. Launch the VMs and grab some coffee:

   $ vagrant up
   

5. After the process completes, you can use the vagrant status command to determine the VM status:

   $ vagrant status
   Current machine states:
   
   ovn-db                    running (virtualbox)
   ovn-controller            running (virtualbox)
   ovn-vtep                  running (virtualbox)
   ovn-compute1              running (virtualbox)
   ovn-compute2              running (virtualbox)
   

6. You can access the VMs using the following commands:

   $ vagrant ssh ovn-db
   $ vagrant ssh ovn-controller
   $ vagrant ssh ovn-vtep
   $ vagrant ssh ovn-compute1
   $ vagrant ssh ovn-compute2
   

   Note: If you prefer to use the VM console, the password for the root

   account is vagrant. Since ovn-controller is set as the primary in the Vagrantfile, the command vagrant ssh (without specifying the name) will connect ssh to that virtual machine.

7. Access OpenStack services via command-line tools on the ovn-controller node or via the dashboard from the host by pointing a web browser at the IP address of the ovn-controller node.

   Note: By default, OpenStack includes two accounts: admin and demo,

   both using password password.

8. After completing your tasks, you can destroy the VMs:

   $ vagrant destroy