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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13

Parameters for customizing the core template collection for a Red Hat OpenStack Platform overcloud

OpenStack Documentation Team

Abstract

This guide provides parameters for customizing the overcloud in Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Use this guide in conjunction with the Advanced Overcloud Customization guide.

Chapter 1. Core Overcloud Parameters

ParameterDescription

AddVipsToEtcHosts

Set to true to append per network VIPs to /etc/hosts on each node. The default value is True.

CloudDomain

The DNS domain used for the hosts. This must match the overcloud_domain_name configured on the undercloud. The default value is localdomain.

CloudName

The DNS name of this cloud. The default value is overcloud.localdomain.

CloudNameCtlplane

The DNS name of this cloud’s control plane endpoint. The default value is overcloud.ctlplane.localdomain.

CloudNameInternal

The DNS name of this cloud’s internal API endpoint. The default value is overcloud.internalapi.localdomain.

CloudNameStorage

The DNS name of this cloud’s storage endpoint. E.g. ci-overcloud.storage.tripleo.org. The default value is overcloud.storage.localdomain.

CloudNameStorageManagement

The DNS name of this cloud’s storage management endpoint. The default value is overcloud.storagemgmt.localdomain.

ControlFixedIPs

Defines a fixed VIP for the Control Plane. Value uses the following format: [{ip_address:'1.2.3.4'}]

ControlPlaneSubnet

The name of the undercloud OpenStack Networking (neutron) control plane subnet. The default value is ctlplane-subnet.

DeployIdentifier

Setting this to a unique value will re-run any deployment tasks that perform configuration on a OpenStack Orchestration (heat) stack-update.

DeploymentServerBlacklist

List of server hostnames to blacklist from any triggered deployments.

EndpointMapOverride

Can be used to override the calcluated EndpointMap.

ExtraConfig

Additional hiera configuration to inject into the cluster.

ExtraHostFileEntries

List of extra hosts entries to be appended to /etc/hosts.

HypervisorNeutronPhysicalBridge

An Open vSwitch bridge to create on each hypervisor. This defaults to br-ex, which is the same as the control plane nodes. This ensures uniform configuration of the Open vSwitch agent. Typically should not need to be changed. The default value is br-ex.

HypervisorNeutronPublicInterface

What interface to add to the HypervisorNeutronPhysicalBridge. The default value is nic1.

InternalApiVirtualFixedIPs

Control the IP allocation for the InternalApiVirtualInterface port. Value uses the following format: [{ip_address:'1.2.3.4'}]

NeutronControlPlaneID

ID or name for Control Plane ctlplane network. The default value is ctlplane.

NeutronPublicInterface

The interface to attach to the external bridge. The default value is nic1.

NodeCreateBatchSize

Maximum batch size for creating nodes. It is recommended to not exceed a batch size of 32 nodes. The default value is 30.

PublicVirtualFixedIPs

Control the IP allocation for the PublicVirtualInterface port. Value uses the following format: [{ip_address:'1.2.3.4'}]

RabbitCookieSalt

Salt for the RabbitMQ cookie. Change to force the randomly generated RabbitMQ cookie to change. The default value is unset.

RedisVirtualFixedIPs

Control the IP allocation for the virtual IP used by Redis. Value uses the following format: [{ip_address:'1.2.3.4'}]

ServerMetadata

Extra properties or metadata passed to OpenStack Compute (nova) for the created nodes in the overcloud. Accessible through the OpenStack Compute (nova) metadata API.

StorageMgmtVirtualFixedIPs

Control the IP allocation for the StorageMgmgVirtualInterface port. Value uses the following format: [{ip_address:'1.2.3.4'}]

StorageVirtualFixedIPs

Control the IP allocation for the StorageVirtualInterface port. Value uses the following format: [{ip_address:'1.2.3.4'}]

UpdateIdentifier

Set to a previously unused value during stack-update triggers package update on all nodes.

Chapter 2. Role-Based Parameters

Substitute _ROLE_ with the name of the role. For example, for _ROLE_Count use ControllerCount.

ParameterDescription

_ROLE_Count

The number of nodes to deploy in a role. The default value is 1.

_ROLE_ExtraConfig

Role specific additional hiera configuration to inject into the cluster.

_ROLE_HostnameFormat

Format for node hostnames. Note that %index% is translated into the index of the node (e.g 0/1/2) and %stackname% is replaced with the stack name (e.g overcloud). The default value is %stackname%-_role_-%index%.

_ROLE_Parameters

Optional Role Specific parameters to be provided to service.

_ROLE_RemovalPolicies

List of resources to be removed from the role’s ResourceGroup when doing an update that requires removal of specific resources.

_ROLE_RemovalPoliciesMode

How to handle change to RemovalPolicies for ROLE ResourceGroup when doing an update. Default mode append will append to the existing blacklist and update would replace the blacklist. The default value is append.

_ROLE_SchedulerHints

Optional scheduler hints to pass to OpenStack Compute (nova).

_ROLE_Services

A list of composable service resources (configured in the resource_registry). This represents a set of nested stacks for each service that get installed on the the role.

Chapter 3. Debug Parameters

These parameters allow you to set debug mode on a per-service basis. The Debug parameter acts as a global parameter for all services and the per-service parameters can override the effects of global parameter on individual services.

ParameterDescription

AodhDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Telemetry Alarming (aodh) services.

BarbicanDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Key Manager (barbican) service.

CeilometerDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Telemetry (ceilometer) services.

CinderDebug

Set to True to enable debugging on OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) services.

ConfigDebug

Whether to run configuration management (e.g. Puppet) in debug mode. The default value is False.

Debug

Set to True to enable debugging on all services. The default value is False.

GlanceDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Image Storage (glance) service.

GnocchiDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi) services.

HeatDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Orchestration (heat) services.

HorizonDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) service. The default value is False.

IronicDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic) services.

KeystoneDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Identity (keystone) service.

ManilaDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Shared File Systems (manila) services.

NeutronDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Networking (neutron) services.

NeutronDhcpAgentDebug

Set to True to enable debugging for OpenStack Networking (neutron) DHCP agent.

NeutronL3AgentDebug

Set to True to enable debugging for OpenStack Networking (neutron) L3 agent.

NeutronMetadataAgentDebug

Set to True to enable debugging for OpenStack Networking (neutron) Metadata agent.

NovaDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Compute (nova) services.

SaharaDebug

Set to True to enable debugging OpenStack Clustering (sahara) services.

Chapter 4. Kernel parameters

ParameterDescription

BridgeNfCallArpTables

Configures sysctl net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables key. The default value is 1.

BridgeNfCallIp6Tables

Configures sysctl net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables key. The default value is 1.

BridgeNfCallIpTables

Configures sysctl net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables key. The default value is 1.

ExtraKernelModules

Hash of extra kernel modules to load.

ExtraKernelPackages

List of extra kernel related packages to install.

ExtraSysctlSettings

Hash of extra sysctl settings to apply.

InotifyIntancesMax

Configures sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances key. The default value is 1024.

KernelDisableIPv6

Configures sysctl net.ipv6.{default/all}.disable_ipv6 keys. The default value is 0.

KernelIpForward

Configures net.ipv4.ip_forward key. The default value is 1.

KernelIpNonLocalBind

Configures net.ipv{4,6}.ip_nonlocal_bind key. The default value is 0.

KernelPidMax

Configures sysctl kernel.pid_max key. The default value is 1048576.

NeighbourGcThreshold1

Configures sysctl net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh1 value. This is the minimum number of entries to keep in the ARP cache. The garbage collector will not run if there are fewer than this number of entries in the cache. The default value is 1024.

NeighbourGcThreshold2

Configures sysctl net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh2 value. This is the soft maximum number of entries to keep in the ARP cache. The garbage collector will allow the number of entries to exceed this for 5 seconds before collection will be performed. The default value is 2048.

NeighbourGcThreshold3

Configures sysctl net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh3 value. This is the hard maximum number of entries to keep in the ARP cache. The garbage collector will always run if there are more than this number of entries in the cache. The default value is 4096.

Chapter 5. Ceph Storage Parameters

ParameterDescription

AdminPassword

The password for the keystone admin account, used for monitoring, querying OpenStack Networking (neutron) etc.

CephAdminKey

The Ceph admin client key. Can be created with: ceph-authtool --gen-print-key.

CephAnsibleDisksConfig

Disks configuration settings for ceph-ansible. The default value is {'devices': ['/dev/vdb'], 'journal_size': 512, 'osd_scenario': 'collocated'}.

CephAnsibleEnvironmentVariables

Mapping of Ansible environment variables to override defaults.

CephAnsibleExtraConfig

Extra vars for the ceph-ansible playbook.

CephAnsiblePlaybook

List of paths to the ceph-ansible playbooks to execute. The default value is ['/usr/share/`ceph-ansible/site-docker.yml.sample']`.

CephAnsiblePlaybookVerbosity

Number of -v, -vv, etc. passed to ansible-playbook command (max 5). The default value is 0.

CephAnsibleSkipTags

List of ceph-ansible tags to skip. The default value is package-install,with_pkg.

CephAnsibleUpgradePlaybook

Path to the ceph-ansible playbook to execute on upgrade. The default value is /usr/share/`ceph-ansible/infrastructure-playbooks/rolling_update.yml`.

CephAnsibleWorkflowName

Name of the OpenStack Workflow (mistral) workflow to execute. The default value is tripleo.storage.v1.ceph-install.

CephClientKey

The Ceph client key. Currently only used for external Ceph deployments to create the openstack user keyring. Can be created with: ceph-authtool --gen-print-key

CephClientUserName

The username the client uses to interact with Ceph. The default value is openstack.

CephClusterFSID

The Ceph cluster FSID. Must be a UUID.

CephClusterName

The Ceph cluster name. The default value is ceph.

CephConfigOverrides

Extra configuration settings to dump into ceph.conf.

CephExternalMonHost

List of externally managed Ceph Mon Host IPs. Only used for external Ceph deployments.

CephIPv6

Enables Ceph daemons to bind to IPv6 addresses. The default is: false The default value is False.

CephManilaClientKey

The Ceph client key. Can be created with: ceph-authtool --gen-print-key

CephMdsKey

The cephx key for the MDS service. Can be created with ceph-authtool --gen-print-key.

CephMonKey

The Ceph monitors key. Can be created with: ceph-authtool --gen-print-key.

CephPoolDefaultPgNum

Default placement group size to use for the RBD pools. The default value is 128.

CephPoolDefaultSize

Default minimum replication for RBD copies. The default value is 3.

CephPools

Override settings for one of the predefined pools or to create additional ones. Example: [{"name": "volumes", "pg_num": 64, "rule_name": "replicated_rule"}]

CephRbdMirrorConfigure

Perform mirror configuration between local and remote pool. The default value is True.

CephRbdMirrorCopyAdminKey

Copy the admin key to all nodes. The default value is False.

CephRbdMirrorPool

Name of the local pool to mirror to remote cluster.

CephRbdMirrorRemoteCluster

The name given to the remote Ceph cluster from the local cluster. Keys reside in the /etc/ceph directory. The default value is not-ceph.

CephRbdMirrorRemoteUser

The rbd-mirror daemon needs a user to authenticate with the remote cluster. By default, this key should be available under /etc/ceph/<remote_cluster>.client.<remote_user>.keyring.

CephRgwClientName

The client name for the RADOSGW service. The default value is radosgw.

CephRgwKey

The cephx key for the RADOSGW client. Can be created with ceph-authtool --gen-print-key.

CephValidationDelay

Interval (in seconds) in between validation checks. The default value is 30.

CephValidationRetries

Number of retry attempts for Ceph validation. The default value is 40.

CinderBackupRbdPoolName

Pool to use if Block Storage (cinder) Backup is enabled. The default is: backups The default value is backups.

CinderRbdExtraPools

List of extra Ceph pools for use with RBD backends for OpenStack Block Storage (cinder). An extra OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) RBD backend driver is created for each pool in the list. This is in addition to the standard RBD backend driver associated with the CinderRbdPoolName.

CinderRbdPoolName

Pool to use for Block Storage (cinder) service. The default is: volumes The default value is volumes.

GlanceRbdPoolName

Pool to use for Image Storage (glance) service. The default is: images The default value is images.

GnocchiRbdPoolName

Pool to use for Telemetry storage. The default is: metrics The default value is metrics.

ManilaCephFSCephFSAuthId

The CephFS user ID for Shared Filesystem Service (manila). The default is: manila The default value is manila.

ManilaCephFSDataPoolName

Pool to use for file share storage. The default is: manila_data The default value is manila_data.

ManilaCephFSDataPoolPGNum

Placement group count for the CephFS data pool for file share storage. The default value is 128.

ManilaCephFSMetadataPoolName

Pool to use for file share metadata storage. The default is: manila_metadata The default value is manila_metadata.

ManilaCephFSMetadataPoolPGNum

Placement group count for the CephFS metadata pool for file share storage. The default value is 128.

ManilaCephFSShareBackendName

Backend name of the CephFS share for file share storage. The default value is cephfs.

NovaRbdPoolName

Pool to use for Compute storage. The default is: vms The default value is vms.

StackUpdateType

Type of update, to differentiate between UPGRADE and UPDATE cases when StackAction is UPDATE (both are the same stack action).

Chapter 6. Block Storage (cinder) Parameters

ParameterDescription

CephClusterName

The Ceph cluster name. The default value is ceph.

CinderCronDbPurgeAge

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Age. The default value is 30.

CinderCronDbPurgeDestination

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Log destination. The default value is /var/log/cinder/cinder-rowsflush.log.

CinderCronDbPurgeHour

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Hour. The default value is 0.

CinderCronDbPurgeMaxDelay

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Max Delay. The default value is 3600.

CinderCronDbPurgeMinute

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Minute. The default value is 1.

CinderCronDbPurgeMonth

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Month. The default value is *.

CinderCronDbPurgeMonthday

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Month Day. The default value is *.

CinderCronDbPurgeUser

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - User. The default value is cinder.

CinderCronDbPurgeWeekday

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Week Day. The default value is *.

CinderDefaultVolumeType

The name of Cinder’s default volume type. The default value is tripleo.

CinderEnableDBPurge

Whether to create cron job for purging soft deleted rows in OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) database. The default value is True.

CinderEnableIscsiBackend

Whether to enable or not the Iscsi backend for OpenStack Block Storage (cinder). The default value is True.

CinderEnableNfsBackend

Whether to enable or not the NFS backend for OpenStack Block Storage (cinder). The default value is False.

CinderEnableRbdBackend

Whether to enable or not the Rbd backend for OpenStack Block Storage (cinder). The default value is False.

CinderISCSIHelper

The iSCSI helper to use with cinder. The default value is lioadm.

CinderISCSIProtocol

Whether to use TCP (iscsi) or iSER RDMA (iser) for iSCSI. The default value is iscsi.

CinderLVMLoopDeviceSize

The size of the loopback file used by the cinder LVM driver. The default value is 10280.

CinderNasSecureFileOperations

Controls whether security enhanced NFS file operations are enabled. Valid values are auto, true or false. Effective when CinderEnableNfsBackend is true. The default value is False.

CinderNasSecureFilePermissions

Controls whether security enhanced NFS file permissions are enabled. Valid values are auto, true or false. Effective when CinderEnableNfsBackend is true. The default value is False.

CinderNfsMountOptions

Mount options for NFS mounts used by OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) NFS backend. Effective when CinderEnableNfsBackend is true.

CinderNfsServers

NFS servers used by OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) NFS backend. Effective when CinderEnableNfsBackend is true.

CinderNfsSnapshotSupport

Whether to enable support for snapshots in the NFS driver. Effective when CinderEnableNfsBackend is true. The default value is True.

CinderPassword

The password for the cinder service and database account.

CinderRbdExtraPools

List of extra Ceph pools for use with RBD backends for OpenStack Block Storage (cinder). An extra OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) RBD backend driver is created for each pool in the list. This is in addition to the standard RBD backend driver associated with the CinderRbdPoolName.

CinderRbdPoolName

NO DESCRIPTION The default value is volumes.

CinderVolumeOptEnvVars

List of optional environment variables.

CinderVolumeOptVolumes

List of optional volumes to be mounted.

CinderWorkers

Set the number of workers for the block storage service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. The default value is equal to the number of vCPU cores on the physical node.

DockerCinderVolumeUlimit

Ulimit for OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) Volume Container. The default value is ['nofile=131072'].

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

Chapter 7. Image Storage (glance) Parameters

ParameterDescription

CephClusterName

The Ceph cluster name. The default value is ceph.

GlanceApiOptVolumes

List of optional volumes to be mounted.

GlanceBackend

The short name of the backend to use. Should be one of swift, rbd, or file. The default value is swift.

GlanceEnabledImportMethods

List of enabled Image Import Methods. Valid values in the list are glance-direct and web-download. The default value is web-download.

GlanceImageConversionOutputFormat

Desired output format for image conversion plugin. The default value is raw.

GlanceImageImportPlugins

List of enabled Image Import Plugins. Valid values in the list are image_conversion, inject_metadata, no_op. The default value is ['no_op'].

GlanceImageMemberQuota

Maximum number of image members per image. Negative values evaluate to unlimited. The default value is 128.

GlanceLogFile

The filepath of the file to use for logging messages from OpenStack Image Storage (glance).

GlanceNetappNfsEnabled

When using GlanceBackend: file, Netapp mounts NFS share for image storage. The default value is False.

GlanceNfsEnabled

When using GlanceBackend: file, mount NFS share for image storage. The default value is False.

GlanceNfsOptions

NFS mount options for image storage when GlanceNfsEnabled is true. The default value is _netdev,bg,intr,context=system_u:object_r:glance_var_lib_t:s0.

GlanceNfsShare

NFS share to mount for image storage when GlanceNfsEnabled is true.

GlanceNodeStagingUri

URI that specifies the staging location to use when importing images. The default value is file:///var/lib/glance/staging.

GlanceNotifierStrategy

Strategy to use for OpenStack Image Storage (glance) notification queue. The default value is noop.

GlancePassword

The password for the image storage service and database account.

GlanceShowMultipleLocations

Whether to show multiple image locations e.g for copy-on-write support on RBD or Netapp backends. Potential security risk, see glance.conf for more information. The default value is False.

GlanceStagingNfsOptions

NFS mount options for NFS image import staging. The default value is _netdev,bg,intr,context=system_u:object_r:glance_var_lib_t:s0.

GlanceStagingNfsShare

NFS share to mount for image import staging.

GlanceWorkers

Set the number of workers for the image storage service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption.

NetappShareLocation

Netapp share to mount for image storage (when GlanceNetappNfsEnabled is true).

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

Chapter 8. Orchestration (heat) Parameters

ParameterDescription

HeatApiOptEnvVars

List of optional environment variables.

HeatApiOptVolumes

List of optional volumes to be mounted.

HeatAuthEncryptionKey

Auth encryption key for heat-engine.

HeatConvergenceEngine

Enables the heat engine with the convergence architecture. The default value is True.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedAge

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Age. The default value is 30.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedAgeType

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Age type. The default value is days.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedDestination

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Log destination. The default value is /dev/null.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedEnsure

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Ensure. The default value is present.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedHour

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Hour. The default value is 0.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedMaxDelay

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Max Delay. The default value is 3600.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedMinute

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Minute. The default value is 1.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedMonth

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Month. The default value is *.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedMonthday

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Month Day. The default value is *.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedUser

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - User. The default value is heat.

HeatCronPurgeDeletedWeekday

Cron to purge database entries marked as deleted and older than $age - Week Day. The default value is *.

HeatEnableDBPurge

Whether to create cron job for purging soft deleted rows in the OpenStack Orchestration (heat) database. The default value is True.

HeatEngineOptEnvVars

List of optional environment variables.

HeatEngineOptVolumes

List of optional volumes to be mounted.

HeatEnginePluginDirs

An array of directories to search for plug-ins.

HeatMaxJsonBodySize

Maximum raw byte size of the OpenStack Orchestration (heat) API JSON request body. The default value is 4194304.

HeatMaxResourcesPerStack

Maximum resources allowed per top-level stack. -1 stands for unlimited. The default value is 1000.

HeatPassword

The password for the Orchestration service and database account.

HeatStackDomainAdminPassword

The admin password for the OpenStack Orchestration (heat) domain in OpenStack Identity (keystone).

HeatWorkers

Number of workers for OpenStack Orchestration (heat) service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. The default value is 0.

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

Chapter 9. Dashboard (horizon) Parameters

ParameterDescription

HorizonAllowedHosts

A list of IP/Hostname for the server OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) is running on. Used for header checks. The default value is *.

HorizonCustomizationModule

OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) has a global overrides mechanism available to perform customizations.

HorizonPasswordValidator

Regex for password validation.

HorizonPasswordValidatorHelp

Help text for password validation.

HorizonSecret

Secret key for the webserver.

HorizonSecureCookies

Set CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE / SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE in OpenStack Dashboard (horizon). The default value is False.

HorizonVhostExtraParams

Extra parameters for OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) vhost configuration. The default value is {'add_listen': True, 'priority': 10, 'access_log_format': '%a %l %u %t \\"%r\\" %>s %b \\"%%{}{Referer}i\\" \\"%%{}{User-Agent}i\\"', 'options': ['FollowSymLinks', 'MultiViews']}.

MemcachedIPv6

Enable IPv6 features in Memcached. The default value is False.

Chapter 10. Bare Metal (ironic) Parameters

ParameterDescription

IronicCleaningDiskErase

Type of disk cleaning before and between deployments. full for full cleaning. metadata to clean only disk metadata (partition table). The default value is full.

IronicCleaningNetwork

Name or UUID of the overcloud network used for cleaning bare metal nodes. The default value of provisioning can be left during the initial deployment (when no networks are created yet) and should be changed to an actual UUID in a post-deployment stack update. The default value is provisioning.

IronicDefaultBootOption

How to boot the bare metal instances. Set to local to use local bootloader (requires grub2 for partition images). Set to netboot to make the instances boot from controllers using PXE/iPXE. The default value is local.

IronicDefaultNetworkInterface

Network interface implementation to use by default. Set to flat to use one flat provider network. Set to neutron to make OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic) interact with the OpenStack Networking (neutron) ML2 driver to enable other network types and certain advanced networking features. Requires IronicProvisioningNetwork to be correctly set. The default value is flat.

IronicDefaultResourceClass

Default resource class to use for new nodes.

IronicDeployLogsStorageBackend

Backend to use to store ramdisk logs, either "local" or "swift". The default value is local.

IronicEnableStagingDrivers

Whether to enable use of staging drivers. The default value is False.

IronicEnabledBootInterfaces

Enabled boot interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['pxe'].

IronicEnabledConsoleInterfaces

Enabled console interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['ipmitool-socat', 'no-console'].

IronicEnabledDeployInterfaces

Enabled deploy interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['iscsi', 'direct'].

IronicEnabledDrivers

Enabled OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic) drivers. The default value is ['pxe_ipmitool', 'pxe_drac', 'pxe_ilo'].

IronicEnabledHardwareTypes

Enabled OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic) hardware types. The default value is ['ipmi', 'redfish'].

IronicEnabledInspectInterfaces

Enabled inspect interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['no-inspect'].

IronicEnabledManagementInterfaces

Enabled management interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['ipmitool', 'redfish'].

IronicEnabledNetworkInterfaces

Enabled network interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['flat', 'neutron'].

IronicEnabledPowerInterfaces

Enabled power interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['ipmitool', 'redfish'].

IronicEnabledRaidInterfaces

Enabled RAID interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['no-raid', 'agent'].

IronicEnabledStorageInterfaces

Enabled storage interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['cinder', 'noop'].

IronicEnabledVendorInterfaces

Enabled vendor interface implementations. Each hardware type must have at least one valid implementation enabled. The default value is ['ipmitool', 'no-vendor'].

IronicIPXEEnabled

Whether to use iPXE instead of PXE for deployment. The default value is True.

IronicIPXEPort

Port to use for serving images when iPXE is used. The default value is 8088.

IronicInspectorCollectors

Comma-separated list of IPA inspection collectors. The default value is default,logs.

IronicInspectorDiscoveryDefaultDriver

The default driver to use for newly discovered nodes (requires IronicInspectorEnableNodeDiscovery set to True). This driver is automatically added to enabled_drivers. The default value is ipmi.

IronicInspectorEnableNodeDiscovery

Makes ironic-inspector enroll any unknown node that PXE-boots introspection ramdisk in OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic). The default driver to use for new nodes is specified by the IronicInspectorDiscoveryDefaultDriver parameter. Introspection rules can also be used to specify it. The default value is False.

IronicInspectorExtraProcessingHooks

Comma-separated list of processing hooks to append to the default list. The default value is extra_hardware,lldp_basic,local_link_connection.

IronicInspectorIPXEEnabled

Whether to use iPXE for inspection. The default value is True.

IronicInspectorInterface

Network interface on which inspection dnsmasq will listen. The default value is br-ex.

IronicInspectorIpRange

Temporary IP range that will be given to nodes during the inspection process. This should not overlap with any range that OpenStack Networking (neutron) DHCP allocates, but it has to be routeable back to ironic-inspector. This option has no meaningful defaults, and thus is required.

IronicInspectorKernelArgs

Kernel args for the OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic) inspector. The default value is ipa-inspection-dhcp-all-interfaces=1 ipa-collect-lldp=1 ipa-debug=1.

IronicInspectorUseSwift

Whether to use Swift for storing introspection data. The default value is True.

IronicPassword

The password for the Bare Metal service and database account.

IronicProvisioningNetwork

Name or UUID of the overcloud network used for provisioning of bare metal nodes if IronicDefaultNetworkInterface is set to neutron. The default value of provisioning can be left during the initial deployment (when no networks are created yet) and should be changed to an actual UUID in a post-deployment stack update. The default value is provisioning.

Chapter 11. Identity (keystone) Parameters

ParameterDescription

AdminEmail

The email for the OpenStack Identity (keystone) admin account. The default value is admin@example.com.

AdminPassword

The password for the OpenStack Identity (keystone) admin account.

AdminToken

The OpenStack Identity (keystone) secret and database password.

KeystoneChangePasswordUponFirstUse

Enabling this option requires users to change their password when the user is created, or upon administrative reset.

KeystoneCredential0

The first OpenStack Identity (keystone) credential key. Must be a valid key.

KeystoneCredential1

The second OpenStack Identity (keystone) credential key. Must be a valid key.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushDestination

Cron to purge expired tokens - Log destination. The default value is /var/log/keystone/keystone-tokenflush.log.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushEnsure

Cron to purge expired tokens - Ensure. The default value is present.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushHour

Cron to purge expired tokens - Hour. The default value is *.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushMaxDelay

Cron to purge expired tokens - Max Delay. The default value is 0.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushMinute

Cron to purge expired tokens - Minute. The default value is 1.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushMonth

Cron to purge expired tokens - Month. The default value is *.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushMonthday

Cron to purge expired tokens - Month Day. The default value is *.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushUser

Cron to purge expired tokens - User. The default value is keystone.

KeystoneCronTokenFlushWeekday

Cron to purge expired tokens - Week Day. The default value is *.

KeystoneDisableUserAccountDaysInactive

The maximum number of days a user can go without authenticating before being considered "inactive" and automatically disabled (locked).

KeystoneEnableDBPurge

Whether to create cron job for purging soft deleted rows in OpenStack Identity (keystone) database. The default value is True.

KeystoneFernetKey0

The first OpenStack Identity (keystone) fernet key. Must be a valid key.

KeystoneFernetKey1

The second OpenStack Identity (keystone) fernet key. Must be a valid key.

KeystoneFernetKeys

Mapping containing OpenStack Identity (keystone) fernet keys and their paths.

KeystoneFernetMaxActiveKeys

The maximum active keys in the OpenStack Identity (keystone) fernet key repository. The default value is 5.

KeystoneLDAPBackendConfigs

Hash containing the configurations for the LDAP backends configured in keystone.

KeystoneLDAPDomainEnable

Trigger to call ldap_backend puppet keystone define. The default value is False.

KeystoneLockoutDuration

The number of seconds a user account will be locked when the maximum number of failed authentication attempts (as specified by KeystoneLockoutFailureAttempts) is exceeded.

KeystoneLockoutFailureAttempts

The maximum number of times that a user can fail to authenticate before the user account is locked for the number of seconds specified by KeystoneLockoutDuration.

KeystoneMinimumPasswordAge

The number of days that a password must be used before the user can change it. This prevents users from changing their passwords immediately in order to wipe out their password history and reuse an old password.

KeystoneNotificationDriver

Comma-separated list of Oslo notification drivers used by OpenStack Identity (keystone). The default value is ['messaging'].

KeystoneNotificationFormat

The OpenStack Identity (keystone) notification format. The default value is basic.

KeystoneNotificationTopics

OpenStack Identity (keystone) notification topics to enable.

KeystonePasswordExpiresDays

The number of days for which a password will be considered valid before requiring it to be changed.

KeystonePasswordRegex

The regular expression used to validate password strength requirements.

KeystonePasswordRegexDescription

Describe your password regular expression here in language for humans.

KeystoneSSLCertificate

OpenStack Identity (keystone) certificate for verifying token validity.

KeystoneSSLCertificateKey

OpenStack Identity (keystone) key for signing tokens.

KeystoneTokenProvider

The OpenStack Identity (keystone) token format. The default value is fernet.

KeystoneUniqueLastPasswordCount

This controls the number of previous user password iterations to keep in history, in order to enforce that newly created passwords are unique.

KeystoneWorkers

Set the number of workers for the OpenStack Identity (keystone) service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. The default value is equal to the number of vCPU cores on the physical node.

ManageKeystoneFernetKeys

Whether director should manage the OpenStack Identity (keystone) fernet keys or not. If set to True, the fernet keys will get the values from the saved keys repository in OpenStack Workflow (mistral) from the KeystoneFernetKeys variable. If set to false, only the stack creation initializes the keys, but subsequent updates will not touch them. The default value is True.

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

Chapter 12. Key Manager (barbican) Parameters

ParameterDescription

BarbicanDogtagStoreGlobalDefault

Whether this plugin is the global default plugin. The default value is False.

BarbicanDogtagStoreHost

Hostname of the Dogtag server.

BarbicanDogtagStoreNSSPassword

Password for the NSS DB.

BarbicanDogtagStorePEMPath

Path for the PEM file used to authenticate requests. The default value is /etc/barbican/kra_admin_cert.pem.

BarbicanDogtagStorePort

Port for the Dogtag server. The default value is 8443.

BarbicanKmipStoreGlobalDefault

Whether this plugin is the global default plugin. The default value is False.

BarbicanKmipStoreHost

Host for KMIP device.

BarbicanKmipStorePassword

Password to connect to KMIP device.

BarbicanKmipStorePort

Port for KMIP device.

BarbicanKmipStoreUsername

Username to connect to KMIP device.

BarbicanPassword

The password for the OpenStack Key Manager (barbican) service account.

BarbicanPkcs11CryptoGlobalDefault

Whether this plugin is the global default plugin. The default value is False.

BarbicanPkcs11CryptoHMACLabel

Label for the HMAC key.

BarbicanPkcs11CryptoLibraryPath

Path to vendor PKCS11 library.

BarbicanPkcs11CryptoLogin

Password to login to PKCS11 session.

BarbicanPkcs11CryptoMKEKLabel

Label for Master KEK.

BarbicanPkcs11CryptoMKEKLength

Length of Master KEK in bytes.

BarbicanPkcs11CryptoSlotId

Slot Id for the HSM.

BarbicanSimpleCryptoGlobalDefault

Whether this plugin is the global default plugin. The default value is False.

BarbicanSimpleCryptoKek

KEK used to encrypt secrets.

BarbicanWorkers

Set the number of workers for barbican::wsgi::apache. The default value is %{::processorcount}.

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

Chapter 13. Shared File Service (manila) Parameters

ParameterDescription

CephClusterName

The Ceph cluster name. The default value is ceph.

ManilaCephClientUserName

NO DESCRIPTION The default value is manila.

ManilaCephFSCephFSProtocolHelperType

Protocol type (CEPHFS or NFS) when cephfs back end is enabled. Set via manila cephfs environment files. The default value is CEPHFS.

ManilaIPv6

Set to True to enable IPv6 access in manila. The default value is False.

ManilaPassword

The password for the shared file service account.

ManilaWorkers

Set the number of workers for the manila API. The default value is equal to the number of vCPU cores on the physical node.

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

Chapter 14. Messaging Parameters

ParameterDescription

RabbitAdditionalErlArgs

Additional parameters passed to the Erlang subsystem. The string needs to be enclosed in quotes twice. We default to +sbwt none in order to have the erlang vm be less busy on spinlocks, but we allow a simple way of overriding it. The default value is '+sbwt none'.

RabbitCookie

Shared secret used for authentication between RabbitMQ nodes.

RabbitFDLimit

Configures RabbitMQ FD limit. The default value is 65536.

RabbitHAQueues

The number of HA queues to be configured in rabbit. The default is -1 which translates to "ha-mode all". The special value 0 will be automatically overridden to CEIL(N/2) where N is the number of nodes running rabbitmq. The default value is -1.

RabbitIPv6

Enable IPv6 in RabbitMQ. The default value is False.

RabbitNetTickTime

The number of seconds to configure the value of the erlang net_ticktime kernel variable. The default value is 15.

RabbitPassword

The password for RabbitMQ.

RabbitUserName

The username for RabbitMQ. The default value is guest.

Chapter 15. Networking (neutron) Parameters

ParameterDescription

DhcpAgentNotification

Enables DHCP agent notifications. The default value is True.

DockerNeutronDHCPAgentUlimit

Ulimit for OpenStack Networking (neutron) DHCP Agent Container. The default value is ['nofile=16384'].

DockerNeutronL3AgentUlimit

Ulimit for OpenStack Networking (neutron) L3 Agent Container. The default value is ['nofile=16384'].

EnableVLANTransparency

If True, then allow plugins that support it to create VLAN transparent networks. The default value is False.

L2gwAgentEnableManager

Connection can be initiated by the ovsdb server. The default value is False.

L2gwAgentManagerTableListeningPort

Port number for L2 gateway agent, so that it can listen. The default value is 6632.

L2gwAgentMaxConnectionRetries

The L2 gateway agent retries to connect to the OVSDB server. The default value is 10.

L2gwAgentOvsdbHosts

L2 gateway agent OVSDB server list.

L2gwAgentPeriodicInterval

The L2 gateway agent checks connection state with the OVSDB servers. The interval is number of seconds between attempts. The default value is 20.

L2gwAgentSocketTimeout

Socket timeout. The default value is 30.

L2gwServiceDefaultDeviceName

Default device name of the L2 gateway. The default value is Switch1.

L2gwServiceDefaultInterfaceName

Default interface name of the L2 gateway. The default value is FortyGigE1/0/1.

L2gwServicePeriodicMonitoringInterval

The periodic interval at which the plugin. The default value is 5.

L2gwServiceProvider

Backend to use as a service provider for L2 Gateway. The default value is ['L2GW:l2gw:networking_l2gw.services.l2gateway.service_drivers.L2gwDriver:default'].

L2gwServiceQuotaL2Gateway

Quota of the L2 gateway. The default value is 5.

NeutronAllowL3AgentFailover

Allow automatic l3-agent failover. The default value is True.

NeutronApiOptEnvVars

List of optional environment variables.

NeutronApiOptVolumes

List of optional volumes to be mounted.

NeutronCorePlugin

The core plugin for networking. The value should be the entrypoint to be loaded from neutron.core_plugins namespace. The default value is ml2.

NeutronDBSyncExtraParams

String of extra command line parameters to append to the neutron-db-manage upgrade head command.

NeutronDhcpAgentDnsmasqDnsServers

List of servers to use as dnsmasq forwarders.

NeutronDhcpAgentsPerNetwork

The number of DHCP agents to schedule per network. The default value is 0.

NeutronDhcpOvsIntegrationBridge

Name of Open vSwitch bridge to use.

NeutronDnsDomain

Domain to use for building the hostnames. The default value is openstacklocal.

NeutronEnableDVR

Enable Distributed Virtual Router. The default value is False.

NeutronEnableDibblerDockerWrapper

Generate a wrapper script so OpenStack Networking (neutron) launches the dibbler client in a separate container. The default value is True.

NeutronEnableDnsmasqDockerWrapper

Generate a dnsmasq wrapper script so that OpenStack Networking (neutron) launches dnsmasq in a separate container. The default value is True.

NeutronEnableForceMetadata

If True, DHCP always provides metadata route to VM. The default value is False.

NeutronEnableHaproxyDockerWrapper

Generate a wrapper script so OpenStack Networking (neutron) launches haproxy in a separate container. The default value is True.

NeutronEnableIsolatedMetadata

If True, DHCP allows metadata support on isolated networks. The default value is False.

NeutronEnableKeepalivedWrapper

Generate a wrapper script so OpenStack Networking (neutron) launches keepalived processes in a separate container. The default value is True.

NeutronEnableL2Pop

Enable/disable the L2 population feature in the OpenStack Networking (neutron) agents. The default value is False.

NeutronEnableMetadataNetwork

If True, DHCP provides metadata network. Requires either NeutronEnableIsolatedMetadata or NeutronEnableForceMetadata parameters to also be True. The default value is False.

NeutronEnableRadvdDockerWrapper

Generate a wrapper script so OpenStack Networking (neutron) launches radvd in a separate container. Note that is currently disabled by default pending availability of a fix to radvd (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1564391). It will be enabled by default once the fix to radvd is generally available across target distributions. The default value is False.

NeutronExternalNetworkBridge

Name of bridge used for external network traffic. Usually L2 agent handles port wiring into external bridge, and hence the parameter should be unset.

NeutronFirewallDriver

Firewall driver for realizing OpenStack Networking (neutron) security group function. The default value is iptables_hybrid.

NeutronFlatNetworks

Sets the flat network name to configure in plugins. The default value is datacentre.

NeutronGlobalPhysnetMtu

MTU of the underlying physical network. OpenStack Networking (neutron) uses this value to calculate MTU for all virtual network components. For flat and VLAN networks, OpenStack Networking uses this value without modification. For overlay networks such as VXLAN, OpenStack Networking automatically subtracts the overlay protocol overhead from this value. The default value is 1500.

NeutronInterfaceDriver

OpenStack Networking (neutron) DHCP Agent interface driver. The default value is neutron.agent.linux.interface.OVSInterfaceDriver.

NeutronL3AgentMode

Agent mode for L3 agent. Must be legacy or dvr_snat. The default value is legacy.

NeutronLinuxbridgeFirewallDriver

Configure the classname of the firewall driver to use for implementing security groups. Possible values depend on system configuration. The default value of an empty string will result in a default supported configuration.

NeutronML2PhysicalNetworkMtus

A list of mappings of physical networks to MTU values. The format of the mapping is <physnet>:<mtu val>. This mapping allows you to specify a physical network MTU value that differs from the default segment_mtu value in ML2 plugin and overwrites values from global_physnet_mtu for the selected network.

NeutronMechanismDrivers

The mechanism drivers for the tenant network. The default value is openvswitch.

NeutronMetadataProxySharedSecret

Shared secret to prevent spoofing.

NeutronNetworkType

The tenant network type. The default value is vxlan.

NeutronNetworkVLANRanges

The OpenStack Networking (neutron) ML2 and Open vSwitch VLAN mapping range to support. Defaults to permitting any VLAN on the datacentre physical network (See NeutronBridgeMappings). The default value is datacentre:1:1000.

NeutronOverlayIPVersion

IP version used for all overlay network endpoints. The default value is 4.

NeutronOvsIntegrationBridge

Name of Open vSwitch bridge to use.

NeutronPassword

The password for the OpenStack Networking (neutron) service and database account.

NeutronPluginExtensions

Comma-separated list of enabled extension plugins. The default value is qos,port_security.

NeutronPluginMl2PuppetTags

Puppet resource tag names that are used to generate configuration files with puppet. The default value is neutron_plugin_ml2.

NeutronRpcWorkers

Sets the number of RPC workers for the OpenStack Networking (neutron) service. If not specified, the value is set to the same as NeutronWorkers.

NeutronServicePlugins

Comma-separated list of service plugin entrypoints. The default value is router,qos,segments,trunk.

NeutronTunnelIdRanges

Comma-separated list of <tun_min>:<tun_max> tuples enumerating ranges of GRE tunnel IDs that are available for tenant network allocation. The default value is ['1:4094'].

NeutronTunnelTypes

The tunnel types for the tenant network. The default value is vxlan.

NeutronTypeDrivers

Comma-separated list of network type driver entrypoints to be loaded. The default value is vxlan,vlan,flat,gre.

NeutronVniRanges

Comma-separated list of <vni_min>:<vni_max> tuples enumerating ranges of VXLAN VNI IDs that are available for tenant network allocation. The default value is ['1:4094'].

NeutronWorkers

Sets the number of API and RPC workers for the OpenStack Networking service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption.

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

PhysicalInterfaceMapping

List of <physical_network>:<physical_interface> tuples mapping physical network names to agent’s node-specific physical network interfaces. Defaults to empty list.

Chapter 16. Compute (nova) Parameters

ParameterDescription

ConfigDownload

Whether config-download method is used or not. The default value is False.

ContainerCpusetCpus

Limit the specific CPUs or cores a container can use. The default value is all.

ContainerNovaLibvirtUlimit

Ulimit for OpenStack Compute (nova) Libvirt Container. The default value is ['nofile=131072', 'nproc=126960'].

DockerNovaComputeUlimit

Ulimit for OpenStack Compute (nova) Compute Container. The default value is ['nofile=131072', 'memlock=67108864'].

DockerNovaMigrationSshdPort

Port that dockerized nova migration target sshd service binds to. The default value is 2022.

EnableConfigPurge

Remove configuration that is not generated by the director. Used to avoid configuration remnants after upgrades. The default value is False.

EnableInstanceHA

Whether to enable an Instance Ha configurarion or not. This setup requires the Compute role to have the PacemakerRemote service added to it. The default value is False.

InstanceNameTemplate

Template string to be used to generate instance names. The default value is instance-%08x.

InternalTLSNbdCAFile

Specifies the CA cert to use for NBD TLS. The default value is /etc/pki/qemu/ca-cert.pem.

InternalTLSQemuCAFile

Specifies the CA cert to use for qemu. The default value is /etc/pki/CA/certs/qemu.pem.

InternalTLSVncCAFile

Specifies the CA cert to use for VNC TLS. The default value is /etc/pki/CA/certs/vnc.crt.

KernelArgs

Kernel Args to apply to the host.

LibvirtCACert

This specifies the CA certificate to use for TLS in libvirt. This file will be symlinked to the default CA path in libvirt, which is /etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem. Note that due to limitations GNU TLS, which is the TLS backend for libvirt, the file must be less than 65K (so we can’t use the system’s CA bundle). This parameter should be used if the default (which comes from the InternalTLSCAFile parameter) is not desired. The current default reflects TripleO’s default CA, which is FreeIPA. It will only be used if internal TLS is enabled.

LibvirtEnabledPerfEvents

This is a performance event list which could be used as monitor. For example: cmt,mbml,mbmt. Make sure you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 as the base and libvirt version is 1.3.3 or above. Also ensure you have enabled the notifications and are using hardware with a CPU that supports the cmt flag.

LibvirtLogFilters

Defines a filter to select a different logging level for a given category log outputs, as specified in https://libvirt.org/logging.html . The default value is 1:libvirt 1:qemu 1:conf 1:security 3:event 3:json 3:file 3:object 1:util.

LibvirtNbdCACert

This specifies the CA certificate to use for NBD TLS. This file will be symlinked to the default CA path, which is /etc/pki/libvirt-nbd/ca-cert.pem. This parameter should be used if the default (which comes from the InternalTLSNbdCAFile parameter) is not desired. The current default reflects TripleO’s default CA, which is FreeIPA. It will only be used if internal TLS is enabled.

LibvirtTLSPassword

The password for the libvirt service when TLS is enabled.

LibvirtTLSPriority

Override the compile time default TLS priority string. The default value is NORMAL:-VERS-SSL3.0:-VERS-TLS-ALL:+VERS-TLS1.2.

LibvirtVncCACert

This specifies the CA certificate to use for VNC TLS. This file will be symlinked to the default CA path, which is /etc/pki/libvirt-vnc/ca-cert.pem. This parameter should be used if the default (which comes from the InternalTLSVncCAFile parameter) is not desired. The current default reflects TripleO’s default CA, which is FreeIPA. It will only be used if internal TLS is enabled.

MigrationSshKey

SSH key for migration. Expects a dictionary with keys public_key and private_key. Values should be identical to SSH public/private key files. The default value is {'public_key': '', 'private_key': ''}.

MigrationSshPort

Target port for migration over ssh. The default value is 2022.

NeutronMetadataProxySharedSecret

Shared secret to prevent spoofing.

NeutronPhysnetNUMANodesMapping

Map of phynet name as key and NUMA nodes as value. For example: NeutronPhysnetNUMANodesMapping: {'foo': [0, 1], 'bar': [1]} where foo and bar are physnet names and corresponding values are list of associated numa_nodes.

NeutronTunnelNUMANodes

Used to configure NUMA affinity for all tunneled networks.

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

NovaComputeCpuSharedSet

A list or range of physical CPU cores will be used for best-effort guest vCPU resources (e.g. emulator threads in libvirt/QEMU). For example: NovaComputeCpuSharedSet: [4-12,^8,15] will reserve cores from 4-12 and 15, excluding 8.

NovaComputeLibvirtType

Libvirt domain type. Defaults to kvm. The default value is kvm.

NovaComputeLibvirtVifDriver

Libvirt VIF driver configuration for the network.

NovaComputeOptEnvVars

List of optional environment variables.

NovaComputeOptVolumes

List of optional volumes to be mounted..

NovaCronArchiveDeleteAllCells

Archive deleted instances from all cells. The default value is True.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsAge

Cron to archive deleted instances - Age This will define the retention policy when archiving the deleted instances entries in days. 0 means, purge data older than today in shadow tables. The default value is 90.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsDestination

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Log destination. The default value is /var/log/nova/nova-rowsflush.log.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsHour

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Hour. The default value is 0.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsMaxRows

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Max Rows. The default value is 1000.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsMinute

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Minute. The default value is 1.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsMonth

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Month. The default value is *.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsMonthday

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Month Day. The default value is *.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsUntilComplete

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Until complete. The default value is False.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsUser

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - User. The default value is nova.

NovaCronArchiveDeleteRowsWeekday

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Week Day. The default value is *.

NovaCronDBArchivedHour

Cron to move deleted instances to another table that doesn’t need backup - Hour. The default value is 0.

NovaCronDBArchivedMaxDelay

Cron to move deleted instances to another table - Max Delay. The default value is 3600.

NovaCronDBArchivedMinute

Cron to move deleted instances to another table that doesn’t need backup - Minute. The default value is 1.

NovaCronDBArchivedMonth

Cron to move deleted instances to another table that doesn’t need backup - Month. The default value is *.

NovaCronDBArchivedMonthday

Cron to move deleted instances to another table that doesn’t need backup - Month Day. The default value is *.

NovaCronDBArchivedWeekday

Cron to move deleted instances to another table that doesn’t need backup - Week Day. The default value is *.

NovaDbSyncTimeout

Timeout for OpenStack Compute (nova) database synchronization in seconds. The default value is 300.

NovaDefaultFloatingPool

Default pool for floating IP addresses. The default value is public.

NovaEnableDBPurge

Whether to create cron job for purging soft deleted rows in OpenStack Compute (nova) database. The default value is True.

NovaEnableNUMALiveMigration

Whether to enable or not the live migration for NUMA topology instances. The default value is False.

NovaIPv6

Enable IPv6 features for OpenStack Compute (nova). The default is: false The default value is False.

NovaLibvirtMemStatsPeriodSeconds

A number of seconds to memory usage statistics period, zero or negative value mean to disable memory usage statistics. The default value is 10.

NovaLibvirtRxQueueSize

Virtio-net RX queue size. Valid values are 256, 512, 1024. The default value is 512.

NovaLibvirtTxQueueSize

Virtio-net TX queue size. Valid values are 256, 512, 1024. The default value is 512.

NovaLibvirtVolumeUseMultipath

Whether to enable or not the multipath connection of the volumes. The default value is False.

NovaNfsEnabled

Whether to enable or not the NFS backend for OpenStack Compute (nova). The default value is False.

NovaNfsOptions

NFS mount options for nova storage (when NovaNfsEnabled is true). The default value is context=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0.

NovaNfsShare

NFS share to mount for nova storage (when NovaNfsEnabled is true).

NovaNfsVersion

NFS version used for nova storage (when NovaNfsEnabled is true). Since NFSv3 does not support full locking a NFSv4 version need to be used. To not break current installations the default is the previous hard coded version 4. The default value is 4.

NovaOVSBridge

Name of integration bridge used by Open vSwitch. The default value is br-int.

NovaPCIPassthrough

YAML list of PCI passthrough whitelist parameters.

NovaPassword

The password for the OpenStack Compute (nova) service and database account.

NovaPlacementAPIInterface

Endpoint interface to be used for the placement API. The default value is internal.

NovaReservedHostMemory

Reserved RAM for host processes. The default value is 4096.

NovaReservedHugePages

A list of valid key=value which reflect NUMA node ID, page size (Default unit is KiB) and number of pages to be reserved. Example - NovaReservedHugePages: ["node:0,size:2048,count:64","node:1,size:1GB,count:1"] will reserve on NUMA node 0 64 pages of 2MiB and on NUMA node 1 1 page of 1GiB.

NovaResumeGuestsShutdownTimeout

Number of seconds we’re willing to wait for a guest to shut down. If this is 0, then there is no time out (use with caution, as guests might not respond to a shutdown request). The default value is 300 seconds (5 minutes). The default value is 300.

NovaResumeGuestsStateOnHostBoot

Whether to start running instance on compute host reboot. The default value is False.

NovaSchedulerAvailableFilters

List of available filters for OpenStack Compute (nova) to use to filter nodes.

NovaSchedulerDefaultFilters

An array of filters OpenStack Compute (nova) uses to filter a node. OpenStack Compute applies these filters in the order they are listed. Place your most restrictive filters first to make the filtering process more efficient.

NovaSchedulerDiscoverHostsInCellsInterval

This value controls how often (in seconds) the scheduler should attempt to discover new hosts that have been added to cells. The default value of -1 disables the periodic task completely. It is recommended to set this parameter for deployments using OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic). The default value is -1.

NovaSchedulerMaxAttempts

Maximum number of attempts the scheduler will make when deploying the instance. You should keep it greater or equal to the number of bare metal nodes you expect to deploy at once to work around potential race conditions when scheduling. The default value is 3.

NovaSchedulerWorkers

Number of workers for OpenStack Compute (nova) Scheduler services. The default value is 1.

NovaVcpuPinSet

A list or range of physical CPU cores to reserve for virtual machine processes. For example, NovaVcpuPinSet: [4-12,^8] reserves cores from 4-12 excluding 8.

NovaWorkers

Number of workers for the Compute’s Conductor service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. The default value is 0.

OvsDpdkSocketMemory

Sets the amount of hugepage memory to assign per NUMA node. It is recommended to use the socket closest to the PCIe slot used for the desired DPDK NIC. The format should be in "<socket 0 mem>, <socket 1 mem>, <socket n mem>", where the value is specified in MB. For example: "1024,0".

QemuCACert

This specifies the CA certificate to use for qemu. This file will be symlinked to the default CA path, which is /etc/pki/qemu/ca-cert.pem. This parameter should be used if the default (which comes from the InternalTLSQemuCAFile parameter) is not desired. The current default reflects TripleO’s default CA, which is FreeIPA. It will only be used if internal TLS is enabled.

StackUpdateType

Type of update, to differentiate between UPGRADE and UPDATE cases when StackAction is UPDATE (both are the same stack action).

UpgradeLevelNovaCompute

OpenStack Compute upgrade level.

UseTLSTransportForNbd

If set to true and if EnableInternalTLS is enabled, it will enable TLS transport for libvirt NBD and configure the relevant keys for libvirt. The default value is True.

UseTLSTransportForVnc

If set to true and if EnableInternalTLS is enabled, it will enable TLS transport for libvirt VNC and configure the relevant keys for libvirt. The default value is True.

VerifyGlanceSignatures

Whether to verify image signatures. The default value is False.

VhostuserSocketGroup

The vhost-user socket directory group name. Defaults to qemu. When vhostuser mode is dpdkvhostuserclient (which is the default mode), the vhost socket is created by qemu. The default value is qemu.

Chapter 17. Clustering (sahara) Parameters

ParameterDescription

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

SaharaPassword

The password for the clusting service and database account.

SaharaPlugins

Clustering enabled plugin list. The default value is ['ambari', 'cdh', 'mapr'].

SaharaWorkers

Set the number of workers for the clustering service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. The default value is 0.

Chapter 18. Object Storage (swift) Parameters

ParameterDescription

SwiftAccountWorkers

Number of workers for Swift account service. The default value is auto.

SwiftCeilometerIgnoreProjects

Comma-separated list of project names to ignore. The default value is ['service'].

SwiftCeilometerPipelineEnabled

Set to False to disable the object storage proxy ceilometer pipeline. The default value is False.

SwiftContainerWorkers

Number of workers for Swift account service. The default value is auto.

SwiftEncryptionEnabled

Set to True to enable data-at-rest encryption in Swift. The default value is False.

SwiftHashSuffix

A random string to be used as a salt when hashing to determine mappings in the ring.

SwiftMinPartHours

The minimum time (in hours) before a partition in a ring can be moved following a rebalance. The default value is 1.

SwiftMountCheck

Check if the devices are mounted to prevent accidentally writing to the root device. The default value is False.

SwiftObjectWorkers

Number of workers for Swift account service. The default value is auto.

SwiftPartPower

Partition power to use when building object storage rings. The default value is 10.

SwiftPassword

The password for the object storage service account.

SwiftProxyNodeTimeout

Timeout for requests going from swift-proxy to account, container, and object services. The default value is 60.

SwiftRawDisks

Additional raw devices to use for the object storage backend. For example: {sdb: {}}

SwiftReplicas

Number of replicas to use in the object storage rings. The default value is 3.

SwiftRingBuild

Whether to manage object storage rings or not. The default value is True.

SwiftRingGetTempurl

A temporary Swift URL to download rings from.

SwiftRingPutTempurl

A temporary Swift URL to upload rings to.

SwiftUseLocalDir

Use a local directory for object storage services when building rings. The default value is True.

SwiftWorkers

Number of workers for object storage service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. The default value is auto.

Chapter 19. Telemetry Parameters

ParameterDescription

AmqpNotifyAddressPrefix

Address prefix for Notification addresses.

AmqpRpcAddressPrefix

Address prefix for RPC addresses.

AodhPassword

The password for the OpenStack Telemetry Alarming (aodh) services.

CeilometerEnablePanko

Check if panko need to be enabled or not. The default value is True.

CeilometerMeteringSecret

Secret shared by the Telemetry services.

CeilometerPassword

The password for the Telemetry service account.

CeilometerQdrEventsConfig

Configuration for notifier publisher for events. The default value is {'driver': 'amqp', 'topic': 'event'}.

CeilometerQdrMetricsConfig

Configuration for notifier publisher for metrics. The default value is {'driver': 'amqp', 'topic': 'metering'}.

CeilometerQdrPublishEvents

Whether to send events to MetricsQdr service. The default value is False.

CeilometerQdrPublishMetrics

Whether to send telemetry data to MetricsQdr service. The default value is False.

CeilometerWorkers

Number of workers for the Telemetry service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. The default value is 0.

CephClusterName

The Ceph cluster name. The default value is ceph.

EnablePankoExpirer

Enable panko expirer to periodically delete events from db. The default value is True.

GnocchiArchivePolicy

Archive policy to use with OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi) backend. The default value is low.

GnocchiBackend

The short name of the OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi) backend to use. Should be one of swift, rbd, or file. The default value is swift.

GnocchiCorsAllowedOrigin

Indicate whether this resource may be shared with the domain received in the request "origin" header.

GnocchiExternalProject

Project name of resources creator in OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi). The default value is service.

GnocchiFileBasePath

Path to use when file driver is used. This could be NFS or a flat file. The default value is /var/lib/gnocchi.

GnocchiIncomingStorageDriver

Storage driver to use for incoming metric data. The default value is redis.

GnocchiIndexerBackend

The short name of the OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi) indexer backend to use. The default value is mysql.

GnocchiMetricdWorkers

Number of workers for OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi). Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. The default value is equal to the number of vCPU cores on the physical node.

GnocchiPassword

The password for the OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi) service and database account.

GnocchiStorageS3AccessKeyId

S3 storage access key Id.

GnocchiStorageS3AccessSecret

S3 storage access key secret.

GnocchiStorageS3BucketPrefix

S3 storage bucket prefix.

GnocchiStorageS3Endpoint

The endpoint url for S3 storage.

GnocchiStorageS3RegionName

S3 Region name.

GnocchiStorageSwiftEndpointType

Set to modify which endpoint type is OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi) accessing swift from. The default value is internalURL.

ManageEventPipeline

Whether to manage event_pipeline.yaml. The default value is True.

ManagePipeline

Whether to manage pipeline.yaml. The default value is False.

ManagePolling

Whether to manage polling.yaml. The default value is False.

MetricProcessingDelay

Delay between processing metrics. The default value is 30.

MetricsQdrPort

Service name or port number on which the qdrouterd will accept connections. This argument must be string, even if the numeric form is used. The default value is 5666.

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

NumberOfStorageSacks

Number of storage sacks to create. The default value is 128.

PankoEventTTL

Number of seconds that events are kept in the database. The default value is 86400.

PankoExpirerHour

Cron to delete events data from database - Hour. The default value is 0.

PankoExpirerMinute

Cron to delete events data from database - Minute. The default value is 1.

PankoExpirerMonth

Cron to delete events data from database - Month. The default value is *.

PankoExpirerMonthday

Cron to delete events data from database - Month Day. The default value is *.

PankoExpirerWeekday

Cron to delete events from database - Week Day. The default value is *.

PankoPassword

The password for the panko services.

PipelinePublishers

A list of publishers to put in pipeline.yaml. When the collector is used, override this with notifier:// publisher. Set ManagePipeline to true for override to take effect.

SnmpdReadonlyUserName

The user name for SNMPd with readonly rights running on all Overcloud nodes. The default value is ro_snmp_user.

SnmpdReadonlyUserPassword

The user password for SNMPd with readonly rights running on all Overcloud nodes.

Chapter 20. Time Parameters

ParameterDescription

EnablePackageInstall

Set to true to enable package installation at deploy time. The default value is false.

MaxPoll

Specify maximum poll interval of upstream servers for NTP messages, in seconds to the power of two. Allowed values are 4 to 17. The default value is 10.

MinPoll

Specify minimum poll interval of upstream servers for NTP messages, in seconds to the power of two. The minimum poll interval defaults to 6 (64 s). Allowed values are 4 to 17. The default value is 6.

NtpIburstEnable

Specifies whether to enable the iburst option for every NTP peer. If iburst is enabled, when the NTP server is unreachable NTP will send a burst of eight packages instead of one. This is designed to speed up the initial syncrhonization. The default value is True.

NtpServer

NTP servers list. The default value is ['pool.ntp.org'].

TimeZone

The timezone to be set on the overcloud. The default value is UTC.

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