Add VMware clusters to operational’s environment
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/add-vmware-clusters
Fuel supports adding and removing nodes after deployment to extend existing and
operational environment. However this functionality works only for compute
nodes with KVM hypervisor.
Problem description
If a customer has already deployed environment with VMware vSphere as
a hypervisor, there’s no ability to add several nodes through to it.
Theoretically we should be able to do this with the help of next four steps:
- Create a new cluster on vSphere and add ESXi nodes to it.
- Add a new compute-vmware node to the environment.
- Put data in the Nailgun: ‘datastore_regex’, ‘service_name’, ‘target_node’
and ‘vsphere_cluster’. Where ‘target_node’ is id of new node and
‘vsphere_cluster’ is the name of new vSphere cluster.
- Deploy the new node. It will be configured to serve the new cluster since
we’ve assigned ‘vsphere_cluster’ to ‘target_node’.
The problem is that we can’t accomplish step 3 because Nailgun doesn’t
provide any changes of VMware settings after deployment. Without information
about the new cluster the compute-vmware node can’t be configured properly.
Proposed changes
Allow to change the list of vSphere’s clusters after deployment similar to the
way it’s done for Ubuntu repositories. [1]
Web UI
There are Nova Compute Instance sections on VMware tab of the Fuel Web UI for
setting vSphere cluster’s data. And there are buttons “+” and “-” which allow
to add or remove these sections. Now these buttons are locked after deployment.
We want to unlock them when pending addition or deletion of the node with role
compute-vmware in the environment.
Nailgun
There are changes from nailgun side:
- Add new ‘editable_for_deployed’ attribute to ‘metadata’ fields in
vmware_attributes_metadata. This attribute will be used for UI to
determinate which settings will be available for editing after cluster
deployment. Difference with ‘always_editable’ that ‘editable_for_deployed’
allows to edit not always, only when compute-vmware nodes are added or
removed. On backend side new settings will be applied only for attributes
that have editable_for_deployed = true in vmware_attributes_metadata.
- Modification of PUT ‘/api/v1/clusters/<:id>/vmware_attributes’ handler to
allow user modified cluster VMWare Atrributes for locked cluster if there
are any ‘compute-vmware’ nodes pending for addition/deletion.
- Add validation of input vmware_attributes data.
Alternatives
User should add compute-vmware node as usual and has to set special data in to
the postgres database directly.
Notifications impact
None
Infrastructure impact
None
Documentation impact
This feature should be described in the documentation.
Implementation
Work Items
- Do proof of concept. Add a cluster manually.
- Allow update VMWareAttributes for deployed environment if has pending
addition/deletion ‘compute-vmware’ nodes and add cluster via CLI Fuel client.
- Add cluster using Fuel Web UI.
Testing, QA
New test should be written which covers this scenario:
- Create an environment with VMware vSphere as hypervisor with 1 cluster.
- Deploy this environment and make OSTF check.
- Add new compute-vmware node and assign it with new cluster on vSphere.
- Deploy changes and make OSTF check again.
Acceptance criteria
The test which described above should pass.