Bug 1378522 - OSP docs, classes, tribal knowlagem makes CF attaching to undercloud difficult
Summary: OSP docs, classes, tribal knowlagem makes CF attaching to undercloud difficult
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: documentation
Version: 8.0 (Liberty)
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Assignee: RHOS Documentation Team
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Reported: 2016-09-22 15:53 UTC by Jeff Warnica
Modified: 2022-08-11 12:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-07-04 10:33:06 UTC
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Description Jeff Warnica 2016-09-22 15:53:53 UTC
On a client site doing an OSP, CF installation and have run into a likely documentation bug, an error or absent section. Possibly also missing parts to actual deployment tooling as well.

The OSP consultant here suggested the deployment process / goal produces a locked down undercloud provisioning network. Cloudforms requires access to this network to attach to that as a infrastructure provider. 

POLA would suggest that a "done" openstack undercloud not immediately need to be reconfigured when CF is deployed and attempts to connect to it.

A number of ways to resolve this, off the top of my head:
* multi home CF instances, allow attaching to undercloud network (implemented here)
* route the undercloud provisioning network
* apache/ha proxy to provisioning network

CF appliances do not ship with multiple nics (actually, just as a disk image). But shipping those (somehow) with multiple nics also could help.

Failure here is in documentation (of OSP and/or CF), the OSP tooling, and/or single-homed CF appliances, and/or training updates to allow CF to directly access the undercloud API without extra OSP and CF appliance configuration.

Comment 2 Jeff Warnica 2016-09-22 21:24:23 UTC
notification drivers, and ceilometer configuration also a point of reconfiguration.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-cloudforms/4.1/managing-providers/chapter-3-cloud-providers

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-openstack-platform/8/paged/quickstart-guide-for-cloudforms-with-red-hat-openstack-platform/chapter-3-adding-an-openstack-cloud-provider

Also (and a CF bug) the OPS documentation on how to use CF is much more detailed then the CF documentation. This seems redundant to have both.


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