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Extending OpenStack-Ansible with additional Ansible content

Termasuk OpenStack-Ansible dalam proyek Anda

Termasuk repositori openstack-ansible dalam proyek lain dapat dilakukan dengan beberapa cara:

  • Git submodule menunjuk ke tag yang dirilis.

  • Sebuah skrip untuk secara otomatis melakukan checkout git dari OpenStack-Ansible.

Ketika memasukkan OpenStack-Ansible dalam proyek, pertimbangkan untuk menggunakan struktur direktori paralel seperti yang ditunjukkan pada bagian file ansible.cfg.

Juga perhatikan bahwa menyalin file ke direktori seperti env.d atau conf.d harus ditangani melalui semacam skrip dalam proyek ekstensi.

Termasuk OpenStack-Ansible dengan struktur Ansible Anda

Anda dapat membuat playbook, variabel, dan struktur peran Anda sendiri sambil tetap menyertakan peran dan pustaka yang dimungkinkan OpenStack dengan mengatur variabel lingkungan atau dengan menyesuaikan /usr/local/bin/openstack-ansible.rc.

Variabel lingkungan yang relevan untuk OpenStack-Ansible adalah sebagai berikut:

ANSIBLE_LIBRARY

Variabel ini harus mengarah ke /etc/ansible/plugins/library. Melakukan hal itu memungkinkan peran dan playbook untuk mengakses modul Ansible yang disertakan OpenStack-Ansible.

ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH

Variabel ini harus menunjuk ke /etc/ansible/roles secara default. Hal ini memungkinkan Ansible untuk mencari peran OpenStack-Ansible yang dapat direferensikan oleh peran ekstensi.

ANSIBLE_INVENTORY

Variabel ini harus mengarah ke openstack-ansible/inventory/dynamic_inventory.py. Dengan pengaturan ini, ekstensi memiliki akses ke inventaris dinamis yang sama yang menggunakan OpenStack-Ansible.

Path ke direktori level atas openstack-ansible dapat bersifat relatif dalam file ini.

Pertimbangkan struktur direktori ini

my_project
|
|- custom_stuff
|  |
|  |- playbooks
|- openstack-ansible
|  |
|  |- playbooks

Variabel lingkungan yang ditetapkan akan digunakan ../openstack-ansible/playbooks/<directory>.

Menambahkan peran baru atau utama dalam instalasi OpenStack-Ansible Anda

Secara default, OpenStack-Ansible menggunakan file ansible-role-requirement untuk mengambil peran yang diperlukan untuk proses instalasi.

Peran akan diambil ke standar ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH, yang standarnya adalah /etc/ansible/roles.

ANSIBLE_ROLE_FILE adalah variabel lingkungan yang menunjuk ke lokasi file YAML dimana ansible-galaxy dapat mengkonsumsi, menentukan dimana peran mengunduh dan menginstal. Nilai default untuk ini adalah ansible-role-requirements.yml.

To completely override the ansible-role-requirement file you can define the environment variable ANSIBLE_ROLE_FILE before running the bootstrap-ansible.sh script. With this approach it is now the responsibility of the deployer to maintain appropriate versions pins of the ansible roles if an upgrade is required.

If you want to extend or just partially override content of the ansible-role-requirements.yml file you can create a new config file which path defaults to /etc/openstack_deploy/user-role-requirements.yml. This path can be overriden with another environment variable USER_ROLE_FILE which is expected to be relative to OSA_CONFIG_DIR (/etc/openstack_deploy) folder.

This file is in the same format as ansible-role-requirements.yml and can be used to add new roles or selectively override existing ones. New roles listed in user-role-requirements.yml will be merged with those in ansible-role-requirements.yml, and roles with matching name key will override those in ansible-role-requirements.yml. In case when src key is not defined bootstrap script will skip cloning such roles.

It is easy for a deployer to keep this file under their own version control and out of the openstack-ansible tree.

Adding new or overriding collections in your OpenStack-Ansible installation

Alike to roles, collections for installation are stored in ansible-collection-requirements file. Path to this file can be overriden through ANSIBLE_COLLECTION_FILE environmental variable.

The Victoria release of openstack-ansible adds an optional new config file which defaults to /etc/openstack_deploy/user-collection-requirements.yml.

It should be in the native format of the ansible-galaxy requirements file and can be used to add new collections to the deploy host or override versions or source for collections defined in ansible-collection-requirements.

user-collection-requirements will be merged with ansible-collection-requirements using collection name as a key. In case source is not defined in user-collection-requirements, collection installation will be skipped. This way you can skip installation of unwanted collections.

You can override location of the user-collection-requirements.yml by setting USER_COLLECTION_FILE environment variable before running the bootstrap-ansible.sh script. Though it is expected to be relative to OSA_CONFIG_DIR (/etc/openstack_deploy) folder.

Calling extra playbooks during the deployment

If you install some additional deployment functionality as either a collection or a git repository on the deploy host, it is possible to automatically include extra playbooks at certain points during the deployment.

The points where a hook exists to call an external playbook are as follows:

  • pre_setup_hosts_hook

  • post_setup_hosts_hook

  • pre_setup_infrastructure_hook

  • post_setup_infrastructure_hook

  • pre_setup_openstack_hook

  • post_setup_openstack_hook

The hook variables should be configured in a suitable user_variables file. An example calling a playbook from a collection (installed using user-collection-requirements.yml) :

pre_setup_hosts_hook: custom.collection.playbook

Installing extra playbooks using collections, and referencing the playbook with its FQCN is the most robust approach to including additional user defined playbooks.

Installing extra Python packages inside Ansible virtualenv

Some Ansible collections may require presence of specific Python libraries inside execution environment. In order to accomplish that deployer can create /etc/openstack_deploy/user-ansible-venv-requirements.txt file with a list of Python libraries that should be installed inside virtual environment along with Ansible during bootstrap-ansible.sh execution.

You can override the default path to user-ansible-venv-requirements.txt file with USER_ANSIBLE_REQUIREMENTS_FILE environment variable before running the bootstrap-ansible.sh script.

Defining environment variables for deployment

Throughout the documentation we talk a lot about different environment variables that control behaviour of OpenStack-Ansible and Ansible iteself.

Starting with the Zed release a user.rc file can be placed in OSA_CONFIG_DIR (/etc/openstack_deploy) folder and contain any environment variable definitions that might be needed to change the default behaviour or any arbitrary Ansible configuration parameter. These environment variables are general purpose and are not limited to those understood by Ansible.

The path to this file can be changed by setting the OSA_USER_RC variable, but the OSA_CONFIG_DIR and OSA_USER_RC variables cannot re-defined or controlled through the user.rc file.