Ansible Roles

Documentation for roles included in system-config

There are two types of roles. Top-level roles, kept in the roles/ directory, are available to be used as roles in Zuul jobs. This places some constraints on the roles, such as not being able to use plugins. Add

roles:
  - zuul: openstack-infra/system-config

to your job definition to source these roles.

Roles in playbooks/roles are designed to be run on the Infrastructure control-plane (i.e. from bridge.openstack.org). These roles are not available to be shared with Zuul jobs.

Role documentation

accessbot

Set up accessbot

afs-release

afs-release

Install the script and related bits and pieces for periodic release of various AFS volumes. This role is really only intended to be run on the mirror-update host, as it uses the ssh-key installed by that host to run vos release under -localauth on the remote AFS servers.

Role Variables

afsmon

afsmon

Install the afsmon tool and related bits and pieces for periodic monitoring of AFS volumes. This role is really only intended to be run on the mirror-update host as we only need one instance of it running.

Role Variables

apache-ua-filter

Reject requests from problematic user agent strings

This role installs and configures a filter macro called UserAgentFilter which can be included in Apache vhosts

Role Variables

backup

Configure a host to be backed up

This role setups a host to use bup for backup to any hosts in the backup-server group.

A separate ssh key will be generated for root to connect to the backup server(s) and the host key for the backup servers will be accepted to the host.

The bup tool is installed and a cron job is setup to run the backup periodically.

Note the backup-server role must run after this to create the user correctly on the backup server. This role sets a tuple bup_user with the username and public key; the backup-server role uses this variable for each host in the backup group to initalise users.

Role Variables

bup_username

The username to connect to the backup server. If this is left undefined, it will be automatically set to bup-$(hostname)

backup-server

Setup backup server

This role configures backup server(s) in the backup-server group to accept backups from remote hosts.

Note that the backup role must have run on each host in the backup group before this role. That role will create a bup_user tuple in the hostvars for for each host consisting of the required username and public key.

Each required user gets a separate home directory in /opt/backups. Their authorized_keys file is configured with the public key to allow the remote host to log in and only run bup.

Role Variables

base

Directory to hold base roles.

bazelisk-build

Run bazelisk build

Runs bazelisk build with the specified targets.

Role Variables

bazelisk_targets
Default: "release"

The bazelisk targets to build.

bazelisk_test_targets
Default: ""

The bazelisk targets to test. bazelisk test will only be run if this value is not the empty string.

bazelisk_executable
Default: bazelisk

The path to the bazelisk executable.

zuul_work_dir
Default: {{ ansible_user_dir }}/{{ zuul.project.src_dir}}

The working directory in which to run bazelisk.

borg-backup

Configure a host to be backed up

This role setups a host to use borgp for backup to any hosts in the borg-backup-server group.

A separate ssh key will be generated for root to connect to the backup server(s) and the host key for the backup servers will be accepted to the host.

The borg tool is installed and a cron job is setup to run the backup periodically.

Note the borg-backup-server role must run after this to create the user correctly on the backup server. This role sets a tuple borg_user with the username and public key; the borg-backup-server role uses this variable for each host in the borg-backup group to initalise users.

Role Variables

borg_username

The username to connect to the backup server. If this is left undefined, it will be automatically set to borg-$(hostname)

borg_backup_excludes_extra
Default: []

A list of extra items to pass as --exclude arguments to borg. Appended to the global default list of excludes set with borg_backup_excludes.

borg_backup_dirs_extra
Default: []

A list of extra directories to backup. Appended to the global default list of directories set with borg_backup_dirs.

borg-backup-server

Setup backup server

This role configures backup server(s) in the borg-backup-server group to accept backups from remote hosts.

Note that the borg-backup role must have run on each host in the borg-backup group before this role. That role will create a borg_user tuple in the hostvars for for each host consisting of the required username and public key.

Each required user gets a separate home directory in /opt/backups. Their authorized_keys file is configured with the public key to allow the remote host to log in and only run borg in server mode.

Role Variables

configure-kubectl

Configure kube config files

Configure kubernetes files needed by kubectl.

Role Variables

kube_config_dir
Default: /root/.kube

kube_config_owner
Default: root

kube_config_group
Default: root

kube_config_file
Default: {{ kube_config_dir }}/config

kube_config_template

configure-openstacksdk

Configure openstacksdk files

Configure openstacksdk files needed by nodepool and ansible.

Role Variables

openstacksdk_config_dir
Default: /etc/openstack

openstacksdk_config_owner
Default: root

openstacksdk_config_group
Default: root

openstacksdk_config_file
Default: {{ openstacksdk_config_dir }}/clouds.yaml

openstacksdk_config_template

disable-puppet-agent

Disable the puppet-agent service on a host

Role Variables

• None

edit-secrets-script

This role installs a script called edit-secrets to /usr/local/bin that allows you to safely edit the secrets file without needing to manage gpg-agent yourself.

etherpad

Run an Etherpad server.

gerrit

Run Gerrit.

gerritbot

Set up gerritbot

gitea

Install, configure, and run Gitea.

Role Variables

gitea_reverse_proxy
Default: False

Create an Apache reverse proxy listening on port 3081. This can be useful for OSI layer 7 filtering; e.g. matching bad User-Agent fields.

gitea_reverse_proxy_hostname
Default: inventory_hostname

The name of the hostname to reverse proxy to. Only necessary for testing where we do not have a certificate for the hostname.

gitea-git-repos

Create git repos on a gitea server

grafana

Run Grafana

graphite

Run Graphite

haproxy

Install, configure, and run a haproxy server.

install-ansible

Install and configure Ansible on a host via pip

Role Variables

install_ansible_name
Default: ansible

The name of the ansible package to install. To install from alternative sources, this can be a URL for a remote package; e.g. to install from upstream devel branch git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git@devel

install_ansible_version
Default: latest

The version of the library from install-ansible.install_ansible_name. Set this to empty (YAML null) if specifying versions via URL in install-ansible.install_ansible_name. The special value “latest” will ensure state: latest is set for the package and thus the latest version is always installed.

install_ansible_openstacksdk_name
Default: openstacksdk

The name of the openstacksdk package to install. To install from alternative sources, this can be a URL for a remote package; e.g. to install from a gerrit change git+https://git.openstack.org/openstack/openstacksdk@refs/changes/12/3456/1#egg=openstacksdk

install_ansible_openstacksdk_version
Default: latest

The version of the library from install-ansible.install_ansible_openstacksdk_name. Set this to empty (YAML null) if specifying versions via install-ansible.install_ansible_openstacksdk_name. The special value “latest” will ensure state: latest is set for the package and thus the latest version is always installed.

install_ansible_ara_enable
Default: false

Whether or not to install the ARA Records Ansible callback plugin

install_ansible_ara_name
Default: ara

The name of the ARA package to install. To install from alternative sources, this can be a URL for a remote package.

install_ansible_ara_version
Default: latest

Version of ARA to install. Set this to empty (YAML null) if specifying versions via URL in install-ansible.install_ansible_ara_name. The special value “latest” will ensure state: latest is set for the package and hence the latest version is always installed.

install_ansible_ara_config
Default: {"database": "sqlite:////var/cache/ansible/ara.sqlite"}

A dictionary of key-value pairs to be added to the ARA configuration file

database: Connection string for the database (ex: mysql+pymysql://ara:password@localhost/ara)

For a list of available configuration options, see the ARA documentation

install-ansible-roles

Install additional Ansible roles from git repos

install-apt-repo

Install an APT repo

Role Variables

repo_name

The name of the repo (used for filenames).

repo_key

The contents of the GPG key, ASCII armored.

repo_content

The file content for the sources list.

install-borg

Install borg backup tool to /opt/borg

Install borg to a virtualenv; the binary will be available at /opt/borg/bin/borg.

Role Variables

borg_version

The version of borg to install. This should likely be pinned to be the same between server and client.

install-certcheck

Install ssl-cert-check

Installs the ssl-cert-check tool and a cron job to check the freshness of the SSL certificates for the configured domains daily.

Role Variables

ssl_cert_check_domain_list
Default: /var/lib/certcheck/domainlist

The list of domains to check

ssl_cert_check_days
Default: 30

Warn about certificates who have less than this number of days to expiry.

ssl_cert_check_email
Default: root

The email to send reports to

install-docker

An ansible role to install docker in the OpenStack infra production environment

Role Variables

use_upstream_docker
Default: True

By default this role adds repositories to install docker from upstream docker. Set this to False to use the docker that comes with the distro.

docker_update_channel
Default: stable

Which update channel to use for upstream docker. The two choices are stable, which is the default and updates quarterly, and edge which updates monthly.

install-kubectl

Install kubectl

Role Variables

• None

install-osc-container

An ansible role to install openstackclient container and helper script

install-podman

An ansible role to install podman in the OpenDev production environment

iptables

Install and configure iptables

Role Variables

iptables_allowed_hosts
Default: []

A list of dictionaries, each item in the list is a rule to add for a host/port combination. The format of the dictionary is:

iptables_allowed_hosts.hostname

The hostname to allow. It will automatically be resolved, and the inventory IP address will be added to the firewall.

iptables_allowed_hosts.protocol

One of “tcp” or “udp”.

iptables_allowed_hosts.port

The port number.

iptables_allowed_groups
Default: []

A list of dictionaries, each item in the list is a rule to add for a host/port combination. The format of the dictionary is:

iptables_allowed_groups.group

The ansible inventory group to add. Every host in the group will be added to the firewall.

iptables_allowed_groups.protocol

One of “tcp” or “udp”.

iptables_allowed_groups.port

The port number.

iptables_public_tcp_ports
Default: []

A list of public TCP ports to open.

iptables_public_udp_ports
Default: []

A list of public UDP ports to open.

iptables_rules_v4
Default: []

A list of iptables v4 rules. Each item is a string containing the iptables command line options for the rule.

iptables_rules_v6
Default: []

A list of iptables v6 rules. Each item is a string containing the iptables command line options for the rule.

jitsi-meet

Install, configure, and run jitsi-meet.

kerberos-client

An ansible role to configure a kerberos client

Note `k5start is installed on Debuntu distributions, but is not part of RedHat distributions.

Role Variables

kerberos_realm

The realm for Kerberos authentication. You must set the realm. e.g. MY.COMPANY.COM. This will be the default realm.

kerberos_admin_server
Default: {{ ansible_fqdn }}

The host where the administraion server is running. Typically this is the master Kerberos server.

kerberos_kdcs
Default: [ {{ ansible_fqdn }} ]

A list of key distribution center (KDC) hostnames for the realm.

letsencrypt-acme-sh-install

Install acme.sh client

This makes the acme.sh client available on the host.

Additionally a driver.sh script is installed to run the authentication procedure and parse output.

Role Variables

letsencrypt_gid
Default: unset

Unix group gid for the letsencrypt group which has permissions on the /etc/letsencrypt-certificates directory. If unset, uses system default. Useful if this conflicts with another role that assumes a gid value.

letsencrypt_account_email
Default: undefined

The email address to register with accounts. Renewal mail and other info may be sent here. Must be defined.

letsencrypt-config-certcheck

Generate SSL check list

This role automatically generates a list of domains for the certificate validation checks. This ensures our certificates are valid and are being renewed as expected.

This role must run after letsencrypt-request-certs role, as that builds the letsencrypt_certcheck_domains variable for each host and certificate. It must also run on a host that has already run the install-certcheck role.

Role Variables

letsencrypt_certcheck_domain_list
Default: /var/lib/certcheck/ssldomains

The ssl-cert-check domain configuration file to write. See also the install-certcheck role.

letsencrypt_certcheck_additional_domains
Default: []

A list of additional domains to check for hosts not using the letsencrypt-* roles. Each entry should be in the format hostname port.

letsencrypt-create-certs

Generate letsencrypt certificates

This must run after the letsencrypt-install-acme-sh, letsencrypt-request-certs and letsencrypt-install-txt-records roles. It will run the acme.sh process to create the certificates on the host.

Role Variables

letsencrypt_self_sign_only

If set to True, will locally generate self-signed certificates in the same locations the real script would, instead of contacting letsencrypt. This is set during gate testing as the authentication tokens are not available.

letsencrypt_use_staging

If set to True will use the letsencrypt staging environment, rather than make production requests. Useful during initial provisioning of hosts to avoid affecting production quotas.

letsencrypt_certs

The same variable as described in letsencrypt-request-certs.

letsencrypt-install-txt-record

Install authentication records for letsencrypt

Install TXT records to the acme.opendev.org domain. This role runs only the adns server, and assumes ownership of the /var/lib/bind/zones/acme.opendev.org/zone.db file. After installation the nameserver is refreshed.

After this, letsencrypt-create-certs can run on each host to provision the certificates.

Role Variables

acme_txt_required

A global dictionary of TXT records to be installed. This is generated in a prior step on each host by the letsencrypt-request-certs role.

letsencrypt-request-certs

Request certificates from letsencrypt

The role requests certificates (or renews expiring certificates, which is fundamentally the same thing) from letsencrypt for a host. This requires the acme.sh tool and driver which should have been installed by the letsencrypt-acme-sh-install role.

This role does not create the certificates. It will request the certificates from letsencrypt and populate the authentication data into the acme_txt_required variable. These values need to be installed and activated on the DNS server by the letsencrypt-install-txt-record role; the letsencrypt-create-certs will then finish the certificate provision process.

Role Variables

letsencrypt_use_staging

If set to True will use the letsencrypt staging environment, rather than make production requests. Useful during initial provisioning of hosts to avoid affecting production quotas.

letsencrypt_certs

A host wanting a certificate should define a dictionary variable letsencyrpt_certs. Each key in this dictionary is a separate certificate to create (i.e. a host can create multiple separate certificates). Each key should have a list of hostnames valid for that certificate. The certificate will be named for the first entry.

For example:

letsencrypt_certs:
  hostname-main-cert:
    - hostname01.opendev.org
    - hostname.opendev.org
  hostname-secondary-cert:
    - foo.opendev.org

will ultimately result in two certificates being provisioned on the host in /etc/letsencrypt-certs/hostname01.opendev.org and /etc/letsencrypt-certs/foo.opendev.org.

Note the creation role letsencrypt-create-certs will call a handler letsencrypt updated {{ key }} (for example, letsencrypt updated hostname-main-cert) when that certificate is created or updated. Because Ansible errors if a handler is called with no listeners, you must define a listener for event. letsencrypt-create-certs has handlers/main.yaml where handlers can be defined. Since handlers reside in a global namespace, you should choose an appropriately unique name.

Note that each entry will require a CNAME pointing the ACME challenge domain to the TXT record that will be created in the signing domain. For example above, the following records would need to be pre-created:

_acme-challenge.hostname01.opendev.org.  IN   CNAME  acme.opendev.org.
_acme-challenge.hostname.opendev.org.    IN   CNAME  acme.opendev.org.
_acme-challenge.foo.opendev.org.         IN   CNAME  acme.opendev.org.

The hostname in the first entry for each certificate will be registered with the letsencrypt-config-certcheck for periodic freshness tests; from the example above, hostname01.opendev.org and foo.opendev.org would be checked. By default this will check on port 443; if the certificate is actually active on another port you can specify it after a colon; e.g. foo.opendev.org:5000 would indicate this host listens with this certificate on port 5000.

logrotate

Add log rotation file

Note

This role does not manage the logrotate package or configuration directory, and it is assumed to be installed and available.

This role installs a log rotation file in /etc/logrotate.d/ for a given file.

For information on the directives see logrotate.conf(5). This is not an exhaustive list of directives (contributions are welcome).

** Role Variables **

logrotate_file_name

The log file on disk to rotate

logrotate_config_file_name
Default: Unique name based on :zuul:rolevar::`logrotate.logrotate_file_name`

The name of the configuration file in /etc/logrotate.d

logrotate_compress
Default: yes

logrotate_copytruncate
Default: yes

logrotate_delaycompress
Default: yes

logrotate_missingok
Default: yes

logrotate_rotate
Default: 7

logrotate_frequency
Default: daily

One of hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or size.

If choosing size, :zuul:rolevar::logrotate.logrotate_size must be specified

logrotate_size
Default: None

Size; e.g. 100K, 10M, 1G. Only when :zuul:rolevar::logrotate.logrotate_frequency is size.

logrotate_notifempty
Default: yes

master-nameserver

Configure a hidden master nameserver

This role installs and configures bind9 to be a hidden master nameserver.

Role Variables

tsig_key
Type: dict

The TSIG key used to control named.

tsig_key{}.algorithm

The algorithm used by the key.

tsig_key{}.secret

The secret portion of the key.

dnssec_keys
Type: dict

This is a dictionary of DNSSEC keys. Each entry is a dnssec key, where the dictionary key is the dnssec key id and the value is the a dictionary with the following contents:

dnssec_keys{}.zone

The name of the zone for this key.

dnssec_keys{}.public

The public portion of this key.

dnssec_keys{}.private

The private portion of this key.

dns_repos
Type: list

A list of zone file repos to check out on the server. Each item in the list is a dictionary with the following keys:

dns_repos[].name

The name of the repo.

dns_repos[].url

The URL of the git repository.

dns_repos[].refspec

Add an additional refspec passed to the git checkout

dns_repos[].version

An additional version passed to the git checkout

dns_zones
Type: list

A list of zones that should be served by named. Each item in the list is a dictionary with the following keys:

dns_zones[].name

The name of the zone.

dns_zones[].source

The repo name and path of the directory containing the zone file. For example if a repo was provided to master-nameserver.dns_repos.name with the name example.com, and within that repo, the zone.db file was located at zones/example_com/zone.db, then the value here should be example.com/zones/example_com.

dns_zones[].unmanaged
Default: False
Type: bool

If True the zone is considered unmanaged. The source file will be put in place if it does not exist, but will otherwise be left alone.

dns_notify
Type: list

A list of IP addresses of nameservers which named should notify on updates.

mirror

Configure an opendev mirror

This role installs and configures a mirror node

Role Variables

mirror-update

mirror-update

This role sets up the mirror-update host, which does the periodic sync of upstream mirrors to the AFS volumes.

It is not intended to be a particularly generic or flexible role, as there is usually only one instance of the mirror-update host (to avoid conflicting updates).

At this stage, it handles the mirrors that are updated by rsync only. It is expected that it will grow to cover mirroring other volumes that are currently done by the legacy openstack.org host and managed by puppet.

Role Variables

nameserver

Configure an authoritative nameserver

This role installs and configures nsd to be an authoritative nameserver.

Role Variables

tsig_key
Type: dict

The TSIG key used to authenticate connections between nameservers.

tsig_key{}.algorithm

The algorithm used by the key.

tsig_key{}.secret

The secret portion of the key.

dns_zones
Type: list

A list of zones that should be served by named. Each item in the list is a dictionary with the following keys:

dns_zones[].name

The name of the zone.

dns_zones[].source

The repo name and path of the directory containing the zone file. For example if a repo was provided to master-nameserver.dns_repos.name with the name example.com, and within that repo, the zone.db file was located at zones/example_com/zone.db, then the value here should be example.com/zones/example_com.

dns_master

The IP addresses of the master nameserver.

nodepool-base

nodepool base setup

Role Variables

nodepool_base_install_zookeeper

Install zookeeper to the node. This is not expected to be used in production, where the nodes would connect to an externally configured zookeeper instance. It can be useful for basic loopback tests in the gate, however.

nodepool-base-legacy

Minimal nodepool requirements for mixed puppet/ansible deployment.

Create minimal nodepool requirements so that we can manage nodepool servers with ansible and puppet while we transition.

Role Variables

• None

nodepool-builder

Deploy nodepool-builder container

Role Variables

nodepool_builder_container_tag
Default: unset

Override tag for container deployment

nodepool-launcher

Deploy nodepool launchers

openafs-client

An ansible role to configure an OpenAFS client

Note

This role uses system packages where available, but for platforms or architectures where they are not available will require external builds. Defaults will pick external packages from OpenStack Infra builds, but you should evaluate if this is suitable for your environment.

This role configures the host to be an OpenAFS client. Because OpenAFS is very reliant on distribution internals, kernel versions and host architecture this role has limited platform support. Currently supported are

• Debian family with system packages available

• Ubuntu LTS family with external 1.8 series packages

• CentOS 7 and 8 with external packages

Role Variables

openafs_client_cell
Default: openstack.org

The default cell.

openafs_client_cache_size
Default: 500000

The OpenAFS client cache size, in kilobytes.

openafs_client_cache_directory
Default: /var/cache/openafs

The directory to store the OpenAFS cache files.

openafs_client_yum_repo_url
Default: ``https://tarballs.openstack.org/project-config/package-afs-centos7``

The URL to a yum/dnf repository with the OpenAFS client RPMs. These are assumed to be created from the .spec file included in the OpenAFS distribution.

openafs_client_yum_repo_gpg_check
Default: no

Enable or disable gpg checking for openafs_yum_repo_url

pip3

Install system packages for python3 pip and virtualenv

Role Variables

• None

puppet-install

Install puppet on a host

Note

This role uses puppetlabs versions where available in preference to system packages.

This roles installs puppet on a host

Role Variables

puppet_install_version
Default: 3

The puppet version to install. Platform support for various version varies.

puppet_install_system_config_modules
Default: yes

If we should clone and run install_modules.sh from OpenDev system-config repository to populate required puppet modules on the host.

puppet-run

Run puppet on remote servers

Omnibus role that takes care of installing puppet and then running puppet. Uses include_role so that the installation of the puppet role can run as the first task, then the puppet role can be used in a following task.

This role should run after puppet-setup-ansible

manifest
Default: manifests/site.pp

Puppet manifest file to run.

puppet-setup-ansible

Setup Ansible on this host to run puppet on remote hosts.

Import the ansible-roles-puppet role for running puppet on remote hosts and bring in the repository of required puppet modules.

rax-dns-backup

Backup Rackspace managed DNS domain names

Export a bind file for each of the domains used in the Rackspace managed DNS-as-a-service.

registry

Install, configure, and run a Docker registry.

root-keys

Write out root SSH private key

Role Variables

root_rsa_key

The root key to place in /root/.ssh/id_rsa

set-hostname

Set hostname

Statically set the hostname, hosts and mailname

Role Variables

• None

static

Configure an static webserver

This role installs and configures a static webserver to serve content published in AFS

Role Variables

sync-project-config

Sync project-config to remote host

vos-release

vos release with localauth

Install a user and script to do remote vos release with localauth authentication. This can avoid kerberos or AFS timeouts.

This relies on vos_release_keypair which is expected to be a single keypair set previously by hosts in the “mirror-update” group. It will allow that keypair to run /usr/local/bin/vos_release.sh, which filters the incoming command. Releases are expected to be triggered on the update host with:

ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_vos_release afs01.dfw.openstack.org vos release <mirror>.<volume>

Future work, if required

• Allow multiple hosts to call the release script (i.e. handle multiple keys).

• Implement locking within vos_release.sh script to prevent too many simulatenous releases.

Role Variables

vos_release_keypair

The authorized key to allow to run the /usr/local/bin/vos_release.sh script

zk-ca

Generate TLS certs for ZooKeeper

This will copy the certs to the remote node into the /etc/zuul directory by default.

zookeeper

Install, configure, and run zookeeper servers.

zuul

Install Zuul

zuul-executor

Run Zuul Executor

zuul-merger

Run zuul merger

zuul-preview

Install, configure, and run zuul-preview.

zuul-scheduler

Run Zuul Scheduler

zuul-status-backup

Backup zuul status info

zuul-user

zuul user

Install a user zuul that has the per-project key from system-config as an authorized_key.

Role Variables

zuul_user_enable_sudo
Default: False

Enable passwordless sudo access for the zuul user.

zuul_user_authorized_key
Default: per-project key from system-config

Authorized key content for the zuul user.

zuul-web

Run zuul-web and zuul-fingergw