Chapter 13. Preparing for upgrading with external Ceph deployments

Procedure

1. Enable the Ceph Tools repository:

   [stack@director ~]$ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhceph-4-tools-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

2. Install the ceph-ansible package:

   [stack@director ~]$ sudo dnf install -y ceph-ansible

Procedure

1. Log in to the undercloud as the stack user.

2. Edit the environment file that contains your overcloud Ceph Storage configuration. This file is usually named ceph-config.yaml and you can find it in your templates directory:

   $ vi /home/stack/templates/ceph-config.yaml

3. Add the CephAnsibleRepo parameter to the parameter_defaults section:

   parameter_defaults:
     ...
     CephAnsibleRepo: rhceph-4-tools-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
     ...

   CephAnsibleRepo sets the repository that includes ceph-ansible. The validation framework uses this parameter to check that you have installed ceph-ansible on the undercloud.

4. Save the ceph-config.yaml file.