Partner Integration

You must meet several prerequisites before you can perform operations with director. The goal of partner integration is to create a shared understanding of the entire integration as a basis for Red Hat engineering, partner managers, and support resources to facilitate technology working together.

To include a third-party component with Red Hat OpenStack Platform director, you must certify the partner solution with Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

The following components are core to Red Hat OpenStack Platform director and contribute to overcloud creation:

NeutronExternalNetworkBridge:
    description: Name of bridge used for external network traffic.
    type: string
    default: 'br-ex'
NeutronBridgeMappings:
    description: >
      The OVS logical->physical bridge mappings to use. See the Neutron
      documentation for details. Defaults to mapping br-ex - the external
      bridge on hosts - to a physical name 'datacentre' which can be used
      to create provider networks (and we use this for the default floating
      network) - if changing this either use different post-install network
      scripts or be sure to keep 'datacentre' as a mapping network name.
    type: string
    default: "datacentre:br-ex"

Director requires several disk images to provision overcloud nodes:

Some situations might require that you modify the initial ramdisk. For example, you might require that a certain driver is available when you boot the nodes during the introspection or provisioning processes. In the context of the overcloud, this includes one of the following ramdisks:

This procedure adds an additional RPM package to the ironic-python-agent.initramfs ramdisk as an example.

The libguestfs-tools package contains the virt-customize tool.

$ sudo systemctl disable --now iscsid.socket

Before you can review the contents of the overcloud-full.qcow2 image, you must create a virtual machine that uses this image.

Set the root password to provide administrator-level access for your nodes through the console.

Register your overcloud image to the Red Hat Content Delivery Network.

Adding third-party software to the image requires additional repositories. The following is an example repo file that contains configuration to use the OpenDaylight repository content.

Important: Red Hat does not offer support for software from non-certified vendors. Check with your Red Hat support representative that the software you want to install is supported.

After you modify the image, you need to upload it to director.

The following section provides a few basics to help you understand Puppet syntax and the structure of a Puppet module.

class mymodule::httpd {
  package { 'httpd':
    ensure => installed,
  }
}

class mymodule::httpd {
  package { 'httpd':
    ensure => installed,
  }
  service { 'httpd':
    ensure => running,
    enable => true,
    require => Package["httpd"],
  }
}

The Red Hat OpenStack Platform uses the official OpenStack Puppet modules. To obtain OpenStack Puppet modules, see the openstack group on Github.

The OpenStack modules primarily aim to configure the core service. Most modules also contain additional manifests to configure additional services, sometimes known as backends, agents, or plugins. For example, the cinder module contains a directory called backends, which contains configuration options for different storage devices including NFS, iSCSI, Red Hat Ceph Storage, and others.

For example, the manifests/backends/nfs.pp file contains the following configuration:

define cinder::backend::nfs (
  $volume_backend_name  = $name,
  $nfs_servers          = [],
  $nfs_mount_options    = undef,
  $nfs_disk_util        = undef,
  $nfs_sparsed_volumes  = undef,
  $nfs_mount_point_base = undef,
  $nfs_shares_config    = '/etc/cinder/shares.conf',
  $nfs_used_ratio       = '0.95',
  $nfs_oversub_ratio    = '1.0',
  $extra_options        = {},
) {

  file {$nfs_shares_config:
    content => join($nfs_servers, "\n"),
    require => Package['cinder'],
    notify  => Service['cinder-volume']
  }

  cinder_config {
    "${name}/volume_backend_name":  value => $volume_backend_name;
    "${name}/volume_driver":        value =>
      'cinder.volume.drivers.nfs.NfsDriver';
    "${name}/nfs_shares_config":    value => $nfs_shares_config;
    "${name}/nfs_mount_options":    value => $nfs_mount_options;
    "${name}/nfs_disk_util":        value => $nfs_disk_util;
    "${name}/nfs_sparsed_volumes":  value => $nfs_sparsed_volumes;
    "${name}/nfs_mount_point_base": value => $nfs_mount_point_base;
    "${name}/nfs_used_ratio":       value => $nfs_used_ratio;
    "${name}/nfs_oversub_ratio":    value => $nfs_oversub_ratio;
  }

  create_resources('cinder_config', $extra_options)

}

This shows the importance of including a manifest to configure the OpenStack driver of your hardware. The manifest provides a method for director to include configuration options that are relevant to your hardware. This acts as a main integration point for director to configure your overcloud to use your hardware.

Puppet contains a tool called hiera, which acts as a key value system that provides node-specific configuration. These keys and their values are usually stored in files located in /etc/puppet/hieradata. The /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml file defines the order that Puppet reads the files in the hieradata directory.

During overcloud configuration, Puppet uses hiera data to overwrite the default values for certain Puppet classes. For example, the default NFS mount options for cinder::backend::nfs in puppet-cinder are undefined:

  $nfs_mount_options    = undef,

However, you can create your own manifest that calls the cinder::backend::nfs defined type and replace this option with hiera data:

  cinder::backend::nfs { $cinder_nfs_backend:
    nfs_mount_options   => hiera('cinder_nfs_mount_options'),
  }

This means the nfs_mount_options parameter takes uses hiera data value from the cinder_nfs_mount_options key:

cinder_nfs_mount_options: rsize=8192,wsize=8192

Alternatively, you can use the hiera data to overwrite cinder::backend::nfs::nfs_mount_options parameter directly so that it applies to all evaluations of the NFS configuration:

cinder::backend::nfs::nfs_mount_options: rsize=8192,wsize=8192

The above hiera data overwrites this parameter on each evaluation of cinder::backend::nfs.

Director uses an advanced heat template collection to create an overcloud. This collection is available from the openstack group on Github in the openstack-tripleo-heat-templates repository.

The main files and directories in this template collection are:

This provides a general overview of the templates the director uses for orchestrating the Overcloud creation. The next few sections show how to create your own custom templates and environment files that you can add to an Overcloud deployment.

The director provides a mechanism to perform configuration on all nodes upon the initial creation of the Overcloud. The director achieves this through cloud-init, which you can call using the OS::TripleO::NodeUserData resource type.

In this example, you will update the nameserver with a custom IP address on all nodes. You must first create a basic heat template (/home/stack/templates/nameserver.yaml) that runs a script to append each node’s resolv.conf with a specific nameserver. You can use the OS::TripleO::MultipartMime resource type to send the configuration script.

heat_template_version: 2014-10-16

description: >
  Extra hostname configuration

resources:
  userdata:
    type: OS::Heat::MultipartMime
    properties:
      parts:
      - config: {get_resource: nameserver_config}

  nameserver_config:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    properties:
      config: |
        #!/bin/bash
        echo "nameserver 192.168.1.1" >> /etc/resolv.conf

outputs:
  OS::stack_id:
    value: {get_resource: userdata}

Next, create an environment file (/home/stack/templates/firstboot.yaml) that registers your heat template as the OS::TripleO::NodeUserData resource type.

resource_registry:
  OS::TripleO::NodeUserData: /home/stack/templates/nameserver.yaml

To add the first boot configuration, add the environment file to the stack along with your other environment files when first creating the Overcloud. For example:

$ openstack overcloud deploy --templates \
    ...
    -e /home/stack/templates/firstboot.yaml \
    ...

The -e applies the environment file to the Overcloud stack.

This adds the configuration to all nodes when they are first created and boot for the first time. Subsequent inclusions of these templates, such as updating the Overcloud stack, does not run these scripts.

This achieves the following:

As a result, each node runs the following Bash script on its first boot:

#!/bin/bash
echo "nameserver 192.168.1.1" >> /etc/resolve.conf

This example shows how Heat template pass and modfy configuration from one resource to another. It also shows how to use environment files to register new Heat resources or modify existing ones.

The Overcloud uses Puppet for the core configuration of OpenStack components. The director provides a set of hooks to provide custom configuration for specific node roles after the first boot completes and before the core configuration begins. These hooks include:

In this example, you first create a basic heat template (/home/stack/templates/nameserver.yaml) that runs a script to write to a node’s resolv.conf with a variable nameserver.

heat_template_version: 2014-10-16

description: >
  Extra hostname configuration

parameters:
  server:
    type: string
  nameserver_ip:
    type: string
  DeployIdentifier:
    type: string

resources:
  CustomExtraConfigPre:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    properties:
      group: script
      config:
        str_replace:
          template: |
            #!/bin/sh
            echo "nameserver _NAMESERVER_IP_" > /etc/resolv.conf
          params:
            _NAMESERVER_IP_: {get_param: nameserver_ip}

  CustomExtraDeploymentPre:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareDeployment
    properties:
      server: {get_param: server}
      config: {get_resource: CustomExtraConfigPre}
      actions: ['CREATE','UPDATE']
      input_values:
        deploy_identifier: {get_param: DeployIdentifier}

outputs:
  deploy_stdout:
    description: Deployment reference, used to trigger pre-deploy on changes
    value: {get_attr: [CustomExtraDeploymentPre, deploy_stdout]}

In this example, the resources section contains the following:

Next, create an environment file (/home/stack/templates/pre_config.yaml) that registers your heat template to the role-based resource type. For example, to apply only to Controller nodes, use the ControllerExtraConfigPre hook:

resource_registry:
  OS::TripleO::ControllerExtraConfigPre: /home/stack/templates/nameserver.yaml

parameter_defaults:
  nameserver_ip: 192.168.1.1

To apply the configuration, add the environment file to the stack along with your other environment files when creating or updating the Overcloud. For example:

$ openstack overcloud deploy --templates \
    ...
    -e /home/stack/templates/pre_config.yaml \
    ...

This applies the configuration to all Controller nodes before the core configuration begins on either the initial Overcloud creation or subsequent updates.

This achieves the following:

This example shows how to create a Heat template that defines a configuration and deploys it using the OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig and OS::Heat::SoftwareDeployments before the core configuration. It also shows how to define parameters in your environment file and pass them to templates in the configuration.

The Overcloud uses Puppet for the core configuration of OpenStack components. The director provides a hook to configure all node types after the first boot completes and before the core configuration begins:

In this example, you first create a basic heat template (/home/stack/templates/nameserver.yaml) that runs a script to append each node’s resolv.conf with a variable nameserver.

heat_template_version: 2014-10-16

description: >
  Extra hostname configuration

parameters:
  server:
    type: string
  nameserver_ip:
    type: string
  DeployIdentifier:
    type: string

resources:
  CustomExtraConfigPre:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    properties:
      group: script
      config:
        str_replace:
          template: |
            #!/bin/sh
            echo "nameserver _NAMESERVER_IP_" >> /etc/resolv.conf
          params:
            _NAMESERVER_IP_: {get_param: nameserver_ip}

  CustomExtraDeploymentPre:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareDeployment
    properties:
      server: {get_param: server}
      config: {get_resource: CustomExtraConfigPre}
      actions: ['CREATE','UPDATE']
      input_values:
        deploy_identifier: {get_param: DeployIdentifier}

outputs:
  deploy_stdout:
    description: Deployment reference, used to trigger pre-deploy on changes
    value: {get_attr: [CustomExtraDeploymentPre, deploy_stdout]}

In this example, the resources section contains the following:

Next, create an environment file (/home/stack/templates/pre_config.yaml) that registers your heat template as the OS::TripleO::NodeExtraConfig resource type.

resource_registry:
  OS::TripleO::NodeExtraConfig: /home/stack/templates/nameserver.yaml

parameter_defaults:
  nameserver_ip: 192.168.1.1

To apply the configuration, add the environment file to the stack along with your other environment files when creating or updating the Overcloud. For example:

$ openstack overcloud deploy --templates \
    ...
    -e /home/stack/templates/pre_config.yaml \
    ...

This applies the configuration to all nodes before the core configuration begins on either the initial Overcloud creation or subsequent updates.

This achieves the following:

This example shows how to create a Heat template that defines a configuration and deploys it using the OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig and OS::Heat::SoftwareDeployments before the core configuration. It also shows how to define parameters in your environment file and pass them to templates in the configuration.

A situation might occur where you have completed the creation of your Overcloud but want to add additional configuration to all roles, either on initial creation or on a subsequent update of the Overcloud. In this case, you use the following post-configuration hook:

In this example, you first create a basic heat template (/home/stack/templates/nameserver.yaml) that runs a script to append each node’s resolv.conf with a variable nameserver.

description: >
  Extra hostname configuration

parameters:
  servers:
    type: json
  nameserver_ip:
    type: string
  DeployIdentifier:
    type: string

resources:
  CustomExtraConfig:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    properties:
      group: script
      config:
        str_replace:
          template: |
            #!/bin/sh
            echo "nameserver _NAMESERVER_IP_" >> /etc/resolv.conf
          params:
            _NAMESERVER_IP_: {get_param: nameserver_ip}

  CustomExtraDeployments:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareDeploymentGroup
    properties:
      servers:  {get_param: servers}
      config: {get_resource: CustomExtraConfig}
      actions: ['CREATE','UPDATE']
      input_values:
        deploy_identifier: {get_param: DeployIdentifier}

In this example, the resources section contains the following:

Next, create an environment file (/home/stack/templates/post_config.yaml) that registers your heat template as the OS::TripleO::NodeExtraConfigPost: resource type.

resource_registry:
  OS::TripleO::NodeExtraConfigPost: /home/stack/templates/nameserver.yaml

parameter_defaults:
  nameserver_ip: 192.168.1.1

To apply the configuration, add the environment file to the stack along with your other environment files when creating or updating the Overcloud. For example:

$ openstack overcloud deploy --templates \
    ...
    -e /home/stack/templates/post_config.yaml \
    ...

This applies the configuration to all nodes after the core configuration completes on either initial Overcloud creation or subsequent updates.

This achieves the following:

This example shows how to create a Heat template that defines a configuration and deploys it using the OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig and OS::Heat::SoftwareDeployments. It also shows how to define parameters in your environment file and pass them to templates in the configuration.

Previously, we discussed adding configuration for a new backend to OpenStack Puppet modules. This section show how the director executes the application of new configuration.

Heat templates provide a hook allowing you to apply Puppet configuration with a OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig resource. The process is similar to how we include and execute Bash scripts. However, instead of the group: script hook, we use the group: puppet hook.

For example, you might have a Puppet manifest (example-puppet-manifest.pp) that enables an NFS Cinder backend using the official Cinder Puppet Module:

cinder::backend::nfs { 'mynfsserver':
  nfs_servers          => ['192.168.1.200:/storage'],
}

This Puppet configuration creates a new resource using the cinder::backend::nfs defined type. To apply this resource through Heat, create a basic Heat template (puppet-config.yaml) that runs our Puppet manifest:

heat_template_version: 2014-10-16

parameters:
  servers:
    type: json

resources:
  ExtraPuppetConfig:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    properties:
      group: puppet
      config:
        get_file: example-puppet-manifest.pp
      options:
        enable_hiera: True
        enable_facter: False

  ExtraPuppetDeployment:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareDeployments
    properties:
      config: {get_resource: ExtraPuppetConfig}
      servers: {get_param: servers}
      actions: ['CREATE','UPDATE']

Next, create an environment file (puppet_config.yaml) that registers our Heat template as the OS::TripleO::NodeExtraConfigPost resource type.

resource_registry:
  OS::TripleO::NodeExtraConfigPost: puppet_config.yaml

This example is similar to using SoftwareConfig and SoftwareDeployments from the script hook example in the previous section. However, there are some differences in this example:

This example shows how to include a Puppet manifest as part of the software configuration for the Overcloud. This provides a way to apply certain configuration classes from existing Puppet modules on the Overcloud images, which helps you customize your Overcloud to use certain software and hardware.

The Heat template collection contains a set of parameters to pass extra configuration to certain node types. These parameters save the configuration as hieradata for the node’s Puppet configuration. These parameters are:

To add extra configuration to the post-deployment configuration process, create an environment file that contains these parameters in the parameter_defaults section. For example, to increase the reserved memory for Compute hosts to 1024 MB and set the VNC keymap to Japanese:

parameter_defaults:
  ComputeExtraConfig:
    nova::compute::reserved_host_memory: 1024
    nova::compute::vnc_keymap: ja

Include this environment file when running openstack overcloud deploy.

After developing a set of environment files relevant to your custom configuration, include these files in your Overcloud deployment. This means running the openstack overcloud deploy command with the -e option, followed by the environment file. You can specify the -e option as many times as necessary for your customization. For example:

$ openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e network-configuration.yaml -e storage-configuration.yaml -e first-boot.yaml

The core heat template collection contains two sets of composable service templates:

Each template contains a description that identifies its purpose. For example, the ntp.yaml service template contains the following description:

description: >
  NTP service deployment using puppet, this YAML file
  creates the interface between the HOT template
  and the puppet manifest that actually installs
  and configure NTP.

These service templates are registered as resources specific to a RHOSP deployment. This means you can call each resource using a unique heat resource namespace defined in the overcloud-resource-registry-puppet.j2.yaml file. All services use the OS::TripleO::Services namespace for their resource type.

Some resources use the base composable service templates directly:

resource_registry:
  ...
  OS::TripleO::Services::Ntp: puppet/services/time/ntp.yaml
  ...

However, core services require containers and as such use the containerized service templates. For example, the keystone containerized service uses the following:

resource_registry:
  ...
  OS::TripleO::Services::Keystone: docker/services/keystone.yaml
  ...

These containerized templates usually reference back to the base templates in order to include Puppet configuration. For example, the docker/services/keystone.yaml template stores the output of the base template in the KeystoneBase parameter:

KeystoneBase:
  type: ../../puppet/services/keystone.yaml

The containerized template can then incorporate functions and data from the base template.

The overcloud.j2.yaml heat template includes a section of Jinja2-based code to define a service list for each custom role in the roles_data.yaml file:

{{role.name}}Services:
  description: A list of service resources (configured in the Heat
               resource_registry) which represent nested stacks
               for each service that should get installed on the {{role.name}} role.
  type: comma_delimited_list
  default: {{role.ServicesDefault|default([])}}

For the default roles, this creates the following service list parameters: ControllerServices, ComputeServices, BlockStorageServices, ObjectStorageServices, and CephStorageServices.

You define the default services for each custom role in the roles_data.yaml file. For example, the default Controller role contains the following content:

- name: Controller
  CountDefault: 1
  ServicesDefault:
    - OS::TripleO::Services::CACerts
    - OS::TripleO::Services::CephMon
    - OS::TripleO::Services::CephExternal
    - OS::TripleO::Services::CephRgw
    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderApi
    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderBackup
    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderScheduler
    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderVolume
    - OS::TripleO::Services::Core
    - OS::TripleO::Services::Kernel
    - OS::TripleO::Services::Keystone
    - OS::TripleO::Services::GlanceApi
    - OS::TripleO::Services::GlanceRegistry
...

These services are then defined as the default list for the ControllerServices parameter.

You can also use an environment file to override the default list for the service parameters. For example, you can define ControllerServices as a parameter_default in an environment file to override the services list from the roles_data.yaml file.

This example examines how to create a user-defined composable service and focuses on implementing a message of the day (motd) service. In this example, the overcloud image contains a custom motd Puppet module loaded either through a configuration hook or through modifying the overcloud images. For more information, see Chapter 3, Working with overcloud images.

When you create your own service, you must define the following items in the heat template of your service:

The following is an example heat template (service.yaml) for the motd service:

heat_template_version: 2016-04-08

description: >
  Message of the day service configured with Puppet

parameters:
  ServiceNetMap:
    default: {}
    type: json
  DefaultPasswords:
    default: {}
    type: json
  EndpointMap:
    default: {}
    type: json
  MotdMessage: 1
    default: |
      Welcome to my Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment!

    type: string
    description: The message to include in the motd

outputs:
  role_data:
    description: Motd role using composable services.
    value:
      service_name: motd
      config_settings: 2
        motd::content: {get_param: MotdMessage}
      step_config: | 3
        if hiera('step') >= 2 {
          include ::motd
        }

You can configure the custom motd service only on the overcloud Controller nodes. This requires a custom environment file and custom roles data file included with your deployment. Replace example input in this procedure according to your requirements.

This includes our custom motd service in our deployment and configures the service on Controller nodes only.

One project represents one partner image. If you have multiple images, you must create multiple projects.

Send an email to connect@redhat.com​ stating whether the plugin is in tree or out of tree in regards to the upstream code.

Certified containers meet Red Hat standards for packaging, distribution, and maintenance. Containers that are certified by Red Hat have a high level of trust and supportability from container-capable platforms, including Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP). To maintain this, partners must keep their images up-to-date.

The checklist includes the following items:

The last item in the checklist is Configure Automated Build Service. Before you configure this service, you must ensure that your project contains a dockerfile that conforms to Red Hat certification standards.

As a part of the image build process, the build service scans your built image to ensure that it complies with Red Hat standards. Use the following guidelines as a basis for the dockerfile to include with your project:

The following dockerfile example demonstrates the required information for the scan:

FROM registry.redhat.io/rhosp13/openstack-cinder-volume
MAINTAINER VenderX Systems Engineering <maintainer@vendorX.com>

###Required Labels
LABEL name="rhosp13/openstack-cinder-volume-vendorx-plugin" \
      maintainer="maintainer@vendorX.com" \
      vendor="VendorX" \
      version="3.7" \
      release="1" \
      summary="Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 cinder-volume VendorX PluginY" \
      description="Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 cinder-volume VendorX PluginY"


USER root

###Adding package
###repo exmple
COPY vendorX.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/vendorX.repo

###adding package with curl
RUN curl -L -o /verdorX-plugin.rpm http://vendorX.com/vendorX-plugin.rpm

###adding local package
COPY verdorX-plugin.rpm /

# Enable a repo to install a package
RUN yum clean all
RUN yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-openstack-13-rpms
RUN yum install -y vendorX-plugin
RUN yum-config-manager --disable rhel-7-server-openstack-13-rpms

# Add required license as text file in Liceses directory (GPL, MIT, APACHE, Partner End User Agreement, etc)
RUN mkdir /licenses
COPY licensing.txt /licenses

USER cinder

You must set details for your project including the namespace and registry for your container image.

Build the container image for your partner plugin.

The Scan Details page displays the result of the scan, including any failed items. If your image scan reports a FAILED status, use the following procedure to investigate how to correct the failure.

After the container image passes the scan, you can publish the container image.

When you publish the link, check the certification documentation for more information about certifying your plugin. For more links to certification documentation, see Section 1.1, “Partner integration prerequisites”.

To use third-party hardware as a Block Storage back end, you must deploy a vendor plugin. The following example demonstrates how to deploy a vendor plugin to use Dell EMC hardware as a Block Storage back end.

Use the OpenStack Bare Metal Provisioning (ironic) component within director to control the power state of the nodes. Director uses a set of back-end drivers to interface with specific bare metal power controllers. These drivers are the key to enabling hardware and vendor specific extensions and capabilities. The most common driver is the IPMI driver,pxe_ipmitool, which controls the power state for any server that supports the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).

Integration with Bare Metal Provisioning starts with the upstream OpenStack community. Ironic drivers accepted upstream are automatically included in the core RHOSP product and director by default. However, they might not be supported according to certification requirements.

Hardware drivers must undergo continuous integration testing to ensure their continued functionality. For more information about third-party driver testing and suitability, see the OpenStack community page Ironic Testing.

Upstream Repositories:

Upstream Blueprints:

Puppet Module:

Bugzilla components:

Integration Notes:

OpenStack Networking (neutron) provides the ability to create a network architecture within your cloud environment. The project provides several integration points for Software Defined Networking (SDN) vendors. These integration points usually fall into the categories of plugins or agents:

A plugin allows extension and customization of pre-existing neutron functions. Vendors can write plugins to ensure interoperability between neutron and certified software and hardware. Develop a driver for neutron Modular Layer 2 (ml2) plugin, which provides a modular back end for integrating your own drivers.

An agent provides a specific network function. The main neutron server and its plugins communicate with neutron agents. Existing examples include agents for DHCP, Layer 3 support, and bridging support.

For both plugins and agents, you can choose one of the following options:

Analyze the functionality of existing plugins and agents to determine how to integrate your own certified hardware and software. In particular, it is recommended to first develop a driver as a part of the ml2 plugin.

Upstream Repositories:

Upstream Blueprints:

Puppet Module:

Bugzilla components:

Integration Notes:

OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) provides an API that interacts with block storage devices, which Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) uses to create volumes. For example, Block Storage provides virtual storage devices for instances. Block Storage provides a core set of drivers to support different storage hardware and protocols. For example, some of the core drivers include support for NFS, iSCSI, and Red Hat Ceph Storage. Vendors can include drivers to support additional certified hardware.

Vendors have the following two main options with the drivers and configuration they develop:

Analyze the functionality of existing drivers to determine how to integrate your own certified hardware and software.

Upstream Repositories:

Upstream Blueprints:

Puppet Module:

Bugzilla components:

Integration Notes:

OpenStack Image service (glance) provides an API that interacts with storage types to provide storage for images. Image service provides a core set of drivers to support different storage hardware and protocols. For example, the core drivers include support for file, OpenStack Object Storage (swift), OpenStack Block Storage (cinder), and Red Hat Ceph Storage. Vendors can include drivers to support additional certified hardware.

Upstream Repositories:

Upstream Blueprints:

Puppet Module:

Bugzilla components:

Integration Notes:

OpenStack Shared File System Service (Manila) provides an API for shared and distributed file system services. Vendors can include drivers to support additional certified hardware.

Upstream Repositories:

Upstream Blueprints:

Puppet Module:

Bugzilla components:

Integration Notes:s

Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) aims to support OpenShift-on-OpenStack deployments. For more information about the partner integration for these deployments, see the Red Hat OpenShift Partners page.