TripleO Standalone Lab Setup

Create a VM on a RHEL+KVM hypervisor that is ready to deploy TripleO Standalone

Requirements

• Expects a working RHEL+KVM hypervisor to target
• Either physical virtualization or nested virtualization

Role Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Description
kvm_vm_hostname	✔️		The FQDN for the VM
kvm_vm_public_ip	✔️		The reachable public IP for the VM
kvm_vm_root_pwd	✔️		Password for the root user of the VM
kvm_vm_base_img	✔️		Name of the base image located in /var/lib/libvirt/images on the KVM hypervisor
kvm_vm_vcpus	❌	4	Number of vCPUS to assign to the VM
kvm_vm_ram	❌	8192	Amount of ram to give to the VM in megabytes
kvm_vm_os_disk_name	❌	{{ kvm_vm_hostname }}	Name of the OS disk in /var/lib/libvirt/images
kvm_vm_os_disk_size	❌	50G	Size of OS disk for the VM
kvm_vm_nics	✔️	see example playbook	Dictionary of NICs to create for the VM

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: kvm
  tags: provision
  vars:
    kvm_vm_hostname: "vm1.example.com"
    kvm_vm_public_ip: 192.168.122.10
    kvm_vm_root_pwd: "p@ssw0rd"
    kvm_vm_base_img: CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2
    kvm_vm_vcpus: "4"
    kvm_vm_ram: "8192"
    kvm_vm_os_disk_name: "{{ kvm_vm_hostname }}"
    kvm_vm_os_disk_size: "30G"
    kvm_vm_nics:
      - name: eth0
        bootproto: static
        onboot: yes
        ip: "{{ kvm_vm_public_ip }}"
        prefix: "24"
        gateway: "192.168.122.1"
        dns_server: "192.168.122.1"
        config: "--type network --source default --model virtio"
      - name: eth1
        bootproto: static
        onboot: yes
        ip: "192.168.122.253"
        prefix: "24"
        gateway: "192.168.122.1"
        dns_server: "192.168.122.1"
        config: "--type network --source default --model virtio"
  tasks:
    - name: Create KVM VM
      include_role:
        name: tripleo-standalone-lab

License

GPLv3

Author Information

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