kolla-helm

Deploy openstack on k8s cluster by helm charts.

Q&A

• Q: What's the implication of the name kolla-helm?

  A: kolla means that the openstack related container images are builded by openstack openstack kolla project. helm represent helm chart.

• Q: What's the difference with openstack-helm?

  A: openstack-helm contains all openstack projects and the dependencies of these projects, it is tremendous and complicated. Moreover, openstack-helm charts still depend on helm v2 api. The aim of kolla-helm is thart provide a lightweight and easy-to-use solution to deploy openstack on k8s cluster.

Quickstart

• Add kolla-helm charts repository

helm repo add kolla-helm https://kungze.github.io/kolla-helm
helm repo update

• Install the fundamental charts

helm install openstack-password kolla-helm/password
helm install openstack-dependency kolla-helm/openstack-dep

kolla-helm/password will random generate some password. The subsequent charts will use these passwords to create user (mariadb, rabbitmq, keystone). kolla-helm/openstack-dep will install the dependent software, contains: mariadb, rabbitmq, memcached and nginx-ingress-controller.

• Install openstack keystone

helm install openstack-keystone kolla-helm/keystone --set passwordRelease=openstack-password,openstackDepRelease=openstack-dependency

The parameters passwordRelease and openstackDepRelease are required, passwordRelease used to specify the release of kolla-helm/password chart, openstackDepRelease used to specify the release of kolla-helm/openstack-dep.

• Install openstack cinder

helm install openstack-cinder kolla-helm/cinder --set ceph.enabled=false,passwordRelease=openstack-password,openstackDepRelease=openstack-dependency,keystoneRelease=openstack-keystone

Because of cinder depend on keystone, so the parameter keystoneRelease is required, it used to specify the release of kolla-helm/keystone. Note: The cinder's ceph backend dependent on rook ceph cluster, if you want enable ceph backend, you need to use rook manage the ceph cluster or create a ceph cluster in advance.