As per BZ 1855112 OSP16.1 (likely z2) will support passing the Ansible --limit flag to ceph-ansible. This feature should be documented. Here is copy text. Using Ansible --limit with ceph-ansible --------------------------------------- When using config-download to configure Ceph, if Ansible's `--limit` option is used, then it is passed to the execution of ceph-ansible too. This is the case for Train and newer. In the previous section an example was provided where Ceph was deployed with TripleO. The examples below show how to update the deployment and pass the `--limit` option. If oc0-cephstorage-0 had a disk failure and a factory clean disk was put in place of the failed disk, then the following could be run so that the new disk is used to bring up the missing OSD and so that ceph-ansible is only run on the nodes where it needs to be run. This is useful to reduce the time it takes to update the deployment:: openstack overcloud deploy --templates -r /home/stack/roles_data.yaml -n /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/network_data_dashboard.yaml -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/ceph-ansible/ceph-ansible.yaml -e ~/my-ceph-settings.yaml --limit oc0-controller-0:oc0-controller-2:oc0-controller-1:oc0-cephstorage-0:undercloud If config-download has generated a `ansible-playbook-command.sh` script, then that script may also be run with the `--limit` option and it will be passed to ceph-ansible:: ./ansible-playbook-command.sh --limit oc0-controller-0:oc0-controller-2:oc0-controller-1:oc0-cephstorage-0:undercloud In the above example the controllers are included because the Ceph Mons need Ansible to change their OSD definitions. Both commands above would do the same thing. The former would only be needed if there were Heat environment file updates. After either of the above has run the `~/config-download/config-download-latest/ceph-ansible/ceph_ansible_command.sh` file should contain the `--limit` option. .. warning:: You must always include the undercloud in the limit list or ceph-ansible will not be executed when using `--limit`. This is necessary because the ceph-ansible execution happens through the external_deploy_steps_tasks playbook and that playbook only runs on the undercloud.
Suggestions. 1. When "config-download" is mentioned link to https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html/director_installation_and_usage/configuring-the-overcloud-with-ansible#config-download-working-directory 2. Write a documentation module to contain this content and then include it in the following documents: - Ch 13.6 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html/director_installation_and_usage/configuring-the-overcloud-with-ansible#config-download-working-directory - Ch 3.6 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html/integrating_an_overcloud_with_an_existing_red_hat_ceph_cluster/integrate-cluster#create-overcloud - Ch 7 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html/deploying_an_overcloud_with_containerized_red_hat_ceph/creating_the_overcloud - Ch 6 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html/hyperconverged_infrastructure_guide/deploy-hci-overcloud