openstack-ansible/doc/source/install-guide-revised-draft/app-advanced-config-affinity.rst

Affinity

OpenStack-Ansible's dynamic inventory generation has a concept called affinity. This determines how many containers of a similar type are deployed onto a single physical host.

Using shared-infra_hosts as an example, consider this openstack_user_config.yml:

shared-infra_hosts:
  infra1:
    ip: 172.29.236.101
  infra2:
    ip: 172.29.236.102
  infra3:
    ip: 172.29.236.103

Three hosts are assigned to the shared-infra_hosts group, OpenStack-Ansible ensures that each host runs a single database container, a single memcached container, and a single RabbitMQ container. Each host has an affinity of 1 by default, and that means each host will run one of each container type.

You can skip the deployment of RabbitMQ altogether. This is helpful when deploying a standalone swift environment. If you need this configuration, your openstack_user_config.yml would look like this:

shared-infra_hosts:
  infra1:
    affinity:
      rabbit_mq_container: 0
    ip: 172.29.236.101
  infra2:
    affinity:
      rabbit_mq_container: 0
    ip: 172.29.236.102
  infra3:
    affinity:
      rabbit_mq_container: 0
    ip: 172.29.236.103

The configuration above deploys a memcached container and a database container on each host, without the RabbitMQ containers.

Security hardening

OpenStack-Ansible automatically applies host security hardening configurations using the openstack-ansible-security role. The role uses a version of the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) that has been adapted for Ubuntu 14.04 and OpenStack.

The role is applicable to physical hosts within an OpenStack-Ansible deployment that are operating as any type of node, infrastructure or compute. By default, the role is enabled. You can disable it by changing a variable within user_variables.yml:

apply_security_hardening: false

When the variable is set to true, the setup-hosts.yml playbook applies the role during deployments.

You can apply security configurations to an existing environment or audit an environment using a playbook supplied with OpenStack-Ansible:

# Perform a quick audit using Ansible's check mode
openstack-ansible --check security-hardening.yml

# Apply security hardening configurations
openstack-ansible security-hardening.yml

For more details on the security configurations that will be applied, refer to the openstack-ansible-security documentation. Review the Configuration section of the openstack-ansible-security documentation to find out how to fine-tune certain security configurations.

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