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Deploying Contrail Charms

 

You can deploy Contrail Charms in a bundle or manually.

Deploy Contrail Charms in a Bundle

Follow these steps to deploy Contrail Charms in a bundle.

  1. Deploy Contrail Charms.

    To deploy Contrail Charms in a bundle, use the juju deploy <bundle_yaml_file> command.

    The following example shows you how to use bundle_yaml_file to deploy Contrail on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

    You can create or modify the Contrail Charm deployment bundle YAML file to:

    • Point to machines or instances where the Contrail Charms must be deployed.

    • Include the options you need.

      Each Contrail Charm has a specific set of options. The options you choose depend on the charms you select. For more information on the options that are available, see Options for Juju Charms.

  2. (Optional) Check the status of deployment.

    You can check the status of the deployment by using the juju status command.

  3. Enable configuration statements.

    Based on your deployment requirements, you can enable the following configuration statements:

Deploying Juju Charms with OpenStack Manually

Before you begin deployment, ensure that you have:

  • Installed and configured Juju

  • Created a Juju controller

  • Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04 installed

Follow these steps to deploy Juju Charms manually:

  1. Create machine instances for OpenStack, compute, and Contrail.
  2. Deploy OpenStack services.

    You can deploy OpenStack services by using any one of the following methods:

    • By specifying the OpenStack parameters in a YAML file

      The following is an example of a YAML-formatted (nova-compute-config.yaml) file.

      Use this command to deploy OpenStack services by using a YAML-formatted file:

    • By using CLI

      To deploy OpenStack services through the CLI:

    • By using a combination of YAML-formatted file and CLI

      To deploy OpenStack services by using a combination of YAML-formatted file and CLI:

      Note

      Use the --to <machine number> command to point to a machine or container where you want the application to be deployed.

      Note

      You set OpenStack services on different machines or on different containers to prevent HAProxy conflicts from applications.

  3. Deploy and configure nova-compute.
    Note

    You can deploy nova-compute to more than one compute machine.

    (Optional) To add additional computes:

  4. Deploy and configure Contrail services.
  5. Enable applications to be available to external traffic:
  6. Enable contrail-controller and contrail-analytics services to be available to external traffic if you do not use HAProxy.
  7. Apply SSL.

    You can apply SSL if needed. To use SSL with Contrail services, deploy easy-rsa service and add-relation command to create relations to contrail-controller service and contrail-agent services.

  8. (Optional) HA configuration.

    If you use more than one controller, follow the HA solution given below:

    1. Deploy HAProxy and Keepalived services.

      HAProxy charm is deployed on machines with Contrail controllers. HAProxy charm must have peering_mode set to active-active. If peering_mode is set to active-passive, HAProxy creates additional listeners on the same ports as other Contrail services. This leads to port conflicts.

      Keepalived charm does not require to option.

    2. Enable HAProxy to be available to external traffic.
      Note

      If you enable HAProxy to be available to external traffic, do not follow step 6.

    3. Add HAProxy and Keepalived relations.
    4. Configure contrail-controller service with VIP.
  9. Add other necessary relations.