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authorMichal Nasiadka <mnasiadka@gmail.com>2026-03-11 12:10:25 +0100
committerMichal Nasiadka <mnasiadka@gmail.com>2026-04-17 13:43:47 +0000
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cinder: Change default destination for cinder-volume/backup containers
Kolla-Ansible defaulted for long time to deploy cinder-volume/backup containers on storage group, which is good for Cinder LVM deployments. Problem is - majority of deployments does not use Cinder LVM backend - they use mainly Ceph (based on OpenStack User Survey) and probably some other proprietary vendors which are API driven. Let's change the default to reflect reality. If a user has cinder lvm enabled - we will deploy it as it was before If a user has both cinder lvm and something else enabled - we will deploy cinder-volume and cinder-backup in both places (cinder group and storage group) If a user doesn't have cinder lvm enabled - we deploy only in the cinder group Change-Id: Ia4a874de8f1b8eab8ff688eab4c6af013449c18c Signed-off-by: Michal Nasiadka <mnasiadka@gmail.com>
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@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ Enable the ``lvm`` backend in ``/etc/kolla/globals.yml``:
enable_cinder_backend_lvm: "yes"
+Edit the inventory file and add ``storage`` group as a child of
+``cinder-volume`` group:
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+ [cinder-volume:children]
+ storage
+
.. note::
There are currently issues using the LVM backend in a multi-controller setup,
@@ -151,9 +159,11 @@ Cinder LVM2 backend with iSCSI
As of Newton-1 milestone, Kolla supports LVM2 as cinder backend. It is
accomplished by introducing two new containers ``tgtd`` and ``iscsid``.
-``tgtd`` container serves as a bridge between cinder-volume process and a
-server hosting Logical Volume Groups (LVG). ``iscsid`` container serves as
-a bridge between nova-compute process and the server hosting LVG.
+``tgtd`` container is the target part of iSCSI setup which needs to run
+on the ``storage`` Ansible group for exposing volumes from LVM.
+``iscsid`` container is the client part of iSCSI setup which needs to run
+together with nova-compute for instance access to storage and on hosts
+running ``cinder-volume`` and ``cinder-backup`` for volume operations.
In order to use Cinder's LVM backend, a LVG named ``cinder-volumes`` should
exist on the server and following parameter must be specified in
@@ -163,37 +173,6 @@ exist on the server and following parameter must be specified in
enable_cinder_backend_lvm: "yes"
-For Ubuntu and LVM2/iSCSI
--------------------------
-
-``iscsd`` process uses configfs which is normally mounted at
-``/sys/kernel/config`` to store discovered targets information, on centos/rhel
-type of systems this special file system gets mounted automatically, which is
-not the case on debian/ubuntu. Since ``iscsid`` container runs on every nova
-compute node, the following steps must be completed on every Ubuntu server
-targeted for nova compute role.
-
-* Add configfs module to ``/etc/modules``
-* Rebuild initramfs using: ``update-initramfs -u`` command
-* Stop ``open-iscsi`` system service due to its conflicts
- with iscsid container.
-
- Ubuntu 16.04 (systemd):
- ``systemctl stop open-iscsi; systemctl stop iscsid``
-
-* Make sure configfs gets mounted during a server boot up process. There are
- multiple ways to accomplish it, one example:
-
- .. code-block:: console
-
- mount -t configfs /etc/rc.local /sys/kernel/config
-
- .. note::
-
- There is currently an issue with the folder /sys/kernel/config as it is
- either empty or does not exist in several operating systems,
- see `_bug 1631072 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla/+bug/1631072>`__ for more info
-
Cinder backend with external iSCSI storage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~