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Chapter 4. Completing post-deployment configuration

You must complete two post-deployment configuration tasks before you create NFS shares, grant user access, and mount NFS shares.

  • Map the Networking service (neutron) storage network to the isolated data center storage network.
  • Make the storage provider network available to trusted tenants only through custom role based access control (RBAC). Do not share the storage provider network globally.
  • Create a private share type.
  • Grant access to specific trusted tenants.

After you complete these steps, the tenant compute instances can create, allow access to, and mount native CephFS shares.

4.1. Creating the storage provider network

You must map the new isolated storage network to a Networking (neutron) provider network. The Compute VMs attach to the network to access native CephFS share export locations.

For information about network security with the Shared File Systems service, see Hardening the Shared File Systems Service in the Security and Hardening Guide.

Procedure

The openstack network create command defines the configuration for the storage neutron network.

  1. From an undercloud node, enter the following command: 

    [stack@undercloud ~]$ source ~/overcloudrc
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  2. On an undercloud node, create the storage network: 

    (overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~]$ openstack network create Storage --provider-network-type vlan --provider-physical-network datacentre --provider-segment 30
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    You can enter this command with the following options:

    • For the --provider-physical-network option, use the default value datacentre, unless you set another tag for the br-isolated bridge through NeutronBridgeMappings in your tripleo-heat-templates.
    • For the --provider-segment option, use the value set for the Storage isolated network in your network environment file. If this was not customized, the default environment file is /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/network_data.yaml. The VLAN associated with the Storage network value is 30 unless you modified the isolated network definitions.
    • For the --provider-network-type option, use the value vlan.

4.2. Configuring the storage provider network

Create a corresponding StorageSubnet on the neutron provider network. Ensure that the subnet is the same for the storage_subnet in the undercloud, and that the allocation range for the storage subnet and the corresponding undercloud subnet do not overlap.

Requirements

  • The start and ending IP range for the allocation pool
  • The subnet IP range

Procedure

  1. From an undercloud node, enter the following command: 

    [stack@undercloud ~]$ source ~/overcloudrc
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  2. Use the sample command to provision the network. Update the values to suit your environment. 

    (overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~]$ openstack subnet create \
--allocation-pool start=172.17.3.10,end=172.17.3.149 \
--dhcp \
--network Storage \
--subnet-range 172.17.3.0/24 \
--gateway none StorageSubnet
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    • For the --allocation-pool option, replace the start=172.17.3.10,end=172.17.3.149 IP values with the IP values for your network.
    • For the --subnet-range option, replace the 172.17.3.0/24 subnet range with the subnet range for your network.

4.3. Configuring role-based access control for the storage provider network

After you identify the trusted tenants or projects that can use the storage network, configure role-based access control (RBAC) rules for them through the Networking service (neutron).

Requirements

Names of the projects that need access to the storage network

Procedure

  1. From an undercloud node, enter the following command: 

    [stack@undercloud ~]$ source ~/overcloudrc
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  2. Identify the projects that require access: 

    (overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~]$ openstack project list
+----------------------------------+---------+
| ID                               | Name    |
+----------------------------------+---------+
| 06f1068f79d2400b88d1c2c33eacea87 | demo    |
| 5038dde12dfb44fdaa0b3ee4bfe487ce | service |
| 820e2d9c956644c2b1530b514127fd0d | admin   |
+----------------------------------+---------+
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  3. Create network RBAC rules with the desired projects: 

    (overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~]$ openstack network rbac create \
--action access_as_shared Storage \
--type network \
--target-project demo
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    Repeat this step for all of the projects that require access to the storage network.

4.4. Configuring a default share type

You can use the Shared File Systems service to define share types that you can use to create shares with specific settings. Share types work like Block Storage volume types. Each type has associated settings, for example, extra specifications. When you invoke the type during share creation the settings apply to the shared file system.

To secure the native CephFS back end against untrusted users, Red Hat recommends that you do not create a default share type. When a default share type does not exist, users are forced to specify a share type, and trusted users can use a custom private share type to which they have exclusive access rights.

If you must create a default share type for untrusted tenants, you can steer provisioning away from the native CephFS back end.

Procedure

  1. From an undercloud node, enter the following command: 

    [stack@undercloud ~]$ source ~/overcloudrc
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  2. Set an extra specification on the share type: 

    (overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~] manila type-create default False
(overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~] manila type-key default set share_backend_name='s!= cephfs'
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  3. Create a private share type and provide trusted tenants with access to this share type: 

    (overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~]$ manila type-create --is-public false nativecephfstype false
(overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~]$ manila type-key nativecephfstype set share_backend_name='cephfs'
(overcloud) [stack@undercloud-0 ~]$ manila type-access-add nativecephfstype <trusted_tenant_project_id>
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For more information about share types, see Creating a share type in the Storage Guide.

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