tripleo-docs/doc/source/advanced_deployment/node_config.rst

Modifying default node configuration

Many service configurarion options are already exposed via parameters in the top-level overcloud.yaml template, and these options should be used wherever available to influence overcloud configuration.

However in the event the service configuration required is not exposed as a top-level parameter, there are flexible interfaces which enable passing arbitrary additional configuration to the nodes on deployment.

Making configuration changes

If you want to make a configuration change, either prior to initial deployment, or subsequently via an update, you can pass additional data to puppet via hiera data, using either the global "ExtraConfig" parameter, or one of the role-specific parameters, e.g using NovaComputeExtraConfig to set the reserved_host_memory value for compute nodes:

cat > compute_params.yaml << EOF
parameters:
    NovaComputeExtraConfig:
      nova::compute::reserved_host_memory: some_value
EOF

openstack overcloud deploy -e compute_params.yaml

The parameters available are:

• `ExtraConfig`: Apply the data to all nodes, e.g all roles
• `NovaComputeExtraConfig`: Apply the data only to Compute nodes
• `controllerExtraConfig`: Apply the data only to Controller nodes (note the inconsistent capitalization...)
• `BlockStorageExtraConfig`: Apply the data only to BlockStorage nodes
• `ObjectStorageExtraConfig`: Apply the data only to ObjectStorage nodes
• `CephStorageExtraConfig`: Apply the data only to CephStorage nodes

Note

Passing data via the ExtraConfig parameters will override any statically defined values in the Hiera data files included as part of tripleo-heat-templates, e.g those located in puppet/hieradata directory.

Note

If you set a configuration of a puppet class which is not being included yet, make sure you include it in the ExtraConfig definition, for example if you want to change CPU allocation ratio:

parameters:
  NovaComputeExtraConfig:
    'nova::scheduler::filter::cpu_allocation_ratio': '11.0'
    compute_classes:
    - '::nova::scheduler::filter'

The compute_classes data is included via the hiera_include in the overcloud_compute.pp puppet manifest.