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Installation

mkcloud is a script used to build a SUSE Cloud environment for development or testing purposes.

It requires SLE-12 or openSUSE Leap 42.2 or newer as host OS.

Obtain automation

  • Get automation's sources from git:

    $ git clone https://github.com/SUSE-Cloud/automation.git

Prepare your system

  • Install libvirt if not present on the system

    $ sudo zypper install libvirt

  • Check if libvirtd is running and if it isn't start it.

    $ sudo service libvirtd status # to check the status
$ sudo service libvirtd start  # to start the daemon

    If you are using libvirtd >= 1.3.0 then you should also start the virtlogd service.

    $ sudo service virtlogd status # to check the status
$ sudo service virtlogd start  # to start the daemon

    It's recommended to configure libvirtd to start on boot.

    • For systems running systemd:

      $ sudo systemctl enable libvirtd

    • For systems running SysV:

      $ sudo chkconfig libvirtd on

mkcloud

To use mkcloud the following additional steps are needed:

  • Create a disk file where the virtual machines are going to be stored. The minimum recommended is 80 GB.

    $ fallocate -l 80G mkcloud.disk

  • Attach the created disk file to a loop device

    $ sudo losetup -f mkcloud.disk

  • Turn off the firewall, otherwise there are going to be conflicts with the rules added by libvirt.

    $ sudo service SuSEfirewall2 stop

    Disable the firewall service to prevent it from starting on boot.

    • Using systemd: 
      $ sudo systemctl disable SuSEfirewall2
    • Using SysV: 
      $ sudo service SuSEfirewall2 off

  • Prepare the system with an initial mkcloud run which installs a few required packages and sets up the lvm volume. Additionally one of the following variables should be set: cloudpv or cloudvg

    $ export cloudpv=/dev/loopX
$ sudo -E /path/to/mkcloud setuphost

Configuration

mkcloud

mkcloud consists of different steps which can be run independently, provided the order is logical.

mkcloud can be configured using different environment variables.

To get a complete list run: ./mkcloud help

Additional Information

  • cloudpv, block device used by mkcloud to create a volume group. This will be used as cloudvg later. In development environments this can be a loop device (e.g. /dev/loop0) or an unused disk or partition.
  • cloudvg, volume group used by mkcloud to put LVM partitions, these partitions are used to host the virtual machines. If defined, cloudpv is ignored.
  • cloudsource, defines what version of SUSE Cloud will be deployed (e.g. susecloud4) The latest version always is in development. So do not expect it to work out of the box. If you need a stable/working version use -1.
  • TESTHEAD, if this variable is set mkcloud will use Devel:Cloud:Staging repository to install and then update the system using the SUSE Cloud repositories (if they are available).
  • admin_node_memory and compute_node_memory define the amount of memory in KB assigned to the admin node and the compute nodes respectively, by default both variables are set to 2 GB.
  • controller_node_memory define the amount of memory in KB assigned to the controller node, by default are set to 4 GB.

Usage

You can run mkcloud from anywhere although it is not recommended to run it directly from your git clone.

Usually it is useful to have a runtest.foo bash script to setup the environment similar to scripts/mkcloudhost/runtestn or the one further down in this document.

It is best to have an exec /path/to/mkcloud in the last line.

Using this exec instead of sourcing the environment has the big advantage that you can never forget to unset variables that will then unexpectedly influence later runs.

Furthermore your git clone will not be littered with files that are created in your working directory during a mkcloud run.

Example usage

$ sudo env cloudpv=/dev/loop0 cloudsource=susecloud6 /path/to/mkcloud plain

This will create a cloud with an admin node (crowbar) and 2 nodes (1 for compute, 1 for controller).

If you want to run tempest in an already created cloud you can run the following command:

$ sudo /path/to/mkcloud testsetup

If you want to test crowbar_register for 1 non-crowbar node within an already deployed cloud, run:

sudo env nodenumberlonelynode=1 /path/to/mkcloud setuplonelynodes crowbar_register

A basic working mkcloud environment could look like this.

Using with local repositories

To be able to deploy a complete Cloud with mkcloud and without VPN access, you can run the "prepare" step in mkcloud using the cache_clouddata=1 environment variable set. This will create a cache under $cache_dir (set to /var/cache/mkcloud by default) of images and repositories needed during deployment. Make sure your $cache_dir partition has enough free space to store all the repos. You should always monitor the space on that partition and adjust accordingly.

Note that you will need to run the "prepare" step again (with VPN access) if your $cloudsource environment variable had changed. For example, if you are developing on "develcloud8" and "develcloud7" in parallel, you will need to run the "prepare" step for each separately.

Here's an example wrapper script you can use instead of executing mkcloud directly which will enable caching and create a loopback LVM volume group which is used by mkcloud then for installation of a virtualized cloud:

#!/bin/bash

# tell mkcloud to cache all repositories it will pass into the VMs locally
# on the host that mkcloud is being invoked on during "prepare" step.
#
# This allows running mkcloud without VPN being used.
export cache_clouddata=1

# path to the locally available repositories. By default, cache_dir is set
# to "/var/cache/mkcloud". If you want to change it to a different location,
# you should be making sure that the partition have enough free space to cache
# all the necessary repos.
#export cache_dir=<some other dir>

# setup/create lvm disk
cloud_lvm_disk=$HOME/develcloud-lvm.raw
if ! [ -f $cloud_lvm_disk ] ; then
    qemu-img create -f raw $cloud_lvm_disk 100G
fi

if ! losetup -l|grep $cloud_lvm_disk; then
    export loused=`losetup -f`
    losetup $loused $cloud_lvm_disk
else
    loused=`losetup |grep -v "NAME"|grep $cloud_lvm_disk|awk '{print $1}'`
fi

export cloudpv=${loused}
export cloudsource=develcloud7
export cloud=$cloudsource
export net_fixed=192.168.150
export net_public=192.168.151
export net_admin=192.168.152
export vcpus=2

exec /path/to/mkcloud "$@"

Testing patches via PTF packages

If you need to test patches, it is recommended to build packages and use the PTF update mechanism to apply them. This is especially useful for patches which affect code used during the early stages of installation, otherwise you would have to split up the mkcloud steps and manually install the PTF packages before e.g. applying Crowbar barclamp proposals.

Building the PTF packages

You can use the build-rpms tool to build a package from a git branch in a local (or remote) repository. Once you have followed the installation instructions, this process is as simple as a one-line command, e.g.

$ build-rpms -l -r my-git-branch ~/IBS/Devel/Cloud/5/crowbar-barclamp-rabbitmq

The output of this command should end with something like:

/var/tmp/build-root/SLE_11_SP3/x86_64/usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/crowbar-barclamp-rabbitmq-1.9+git.1428427665.a11b19b-0.noarch.rpm
rpms saved in /home/adam/tmp/build-rpms/IBS_Devel_Cloud_5_crowbar-barclamp-rabbitmq

Getting mkcloud to use PTF packages

You will need a directory on the mkcloud host which contains all PTFs which should be applied via the next mkcloud run, and this directory should be accessible over HTTP. It is suggested that you create a directory for each topic you want to test, to avoid accidentally mixing up which PTF packages get applied during a particular mkcloud test run. For example,

# ptfdir=/data/install/PTF/rabbitmq-bugfix
# mkdir -p $ptfdir
# cp ~/tmp/build-rpms/IBS_Devel_Cloud_5_crowbar-barclamp-rabbitmq/*.noarch.rpm $ptfdir

Set up Apache on the host to export $ptfdir as http://192.168.124.1/ptf/

# cat <<EOF >/etc/apache2/conf.d/cloud-ptf.conf
Alias /ptf /data/install/PTF/
<Directory /data/install/PTF/>
    Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
    IndexOptions +NameWidth=*

    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
EOF

Now it is ready to be used by mkcloud:

# export UPDATEREPOS=http://192.168.124.1/ptf/rabbitmq-bugfix/
# mkcloud plain

Now subsequent mkcloud runs will automatically apply any packages found under /data/install/PTF/rabbitmq-bugfix.