Inspecting the cluster
Overview
MicroStack aims to remove the need for an operator to know all of the technical detail about how to deploy an OpenStack cloud; however when something does go wrong it’s important to be able to inspect the various components in order to discover the nature of the problem.
Juju
MicroStack makes extensive use of Juju to manage the components of the OpenStack cloud across both the underlying nodes and on Kubernetes (see MicroK8S).
MicroStack uses two Juju models for managing the various components deployed to create the OpenStack cloud.
Juju controller authentication
MicroStack uses a set of credentials for each node in the cluster for access to the Juju controller. The authenticated session for each node expires after 24 hours so to use the juju command directly it may be necessary to re-authenticate.
Juju commands will prompt for a password once the session has expired - the password for the node’s user can be found in ${HOME}/snap/openstack/current/account.yaml.
Alternatively the juju-login helper can be used to re-authenticate with the Juju controller:
sunbeam utils juju-login
The juju-login command is only available in the 2023.1/edge version of the openstack snap.
Controller model
The controller model contains the MicroStack components that are placed directly on the nodes that make up the deployment. The status of this model can be queried using the following command:
juju status -m admin/controller
This should work from any node in the deployment
This model contains the application deployments for the MicroK8S (control role), MicroCeph (storage role) and OpenStack Hypervisor (compute role) components of MicroStack.
Depending on the roles assigned to individual machines, a unit of each of the applications should be present in the model.
The controller application is a special application that represents the Juju controller.
OpenStack model
The openstack model contains all of the components of the OpenStack Cloud that are deployed on top of Kubernetes (provided by MicroK8S from the controller model).
The status of this model can be queried using the following command:
juju status -m openstack
This should work from any node in the deployment.
If the storage role is not specified for any nodes in the deployment the cinder-ceph application will remain in a blocked state. This is expected and means that the deployed OpenStack cloud does not support the block storage service.
OpenStack Hypervisor
The OpenStack Hypervisor is a snap based component that provides all of the core functionality needed to operate a hypervisor as part of an OpenStack Cloud. This include Nova Compute, Libvirt+QEMU for hardware based virtualisation, OVN and OVS for software defined networking and supporting services to provide metadata to instances.
The status of the snap’s services can be checked using:
sudo systemctl status snap.openstack-hypervisor.*
All log output for the services can be captured by consulting the journal:
sudo journalctl -xe -u snap.openstack-hypervisor.*
This component is deployed and integrated into the cloud using the openstack-hypervisor charm that is deployed in the controller model.
MicroK8S
MicroK8S provides Kubernetes as part of MicroStack.
The current status of the MicroK8S cluster can be checked by running:
sudo microk8s status
A more in-depth inspection and generation of a archive suitable for use as part of a bug submission can also be completed by running:
sudo microk8s inspect
Services hosted on MicroK8S
Components of OpenStack Control Plane are hosted on MicroK8S.
You can get the different units by running:
sudo microk8s.kubectl get pods --namespace openstack
To fetch the logs of a specific unit on MicroK8S, it is necessary to know the name of the containers running inside a given pod. To get the names of the containers:
sudo microk8s.kubectl get pod --namespace openstack -o jsonpath="{.spec.containers[*].name}" <pod_name>
A Juju unit will always have a charm container running the Juju agent responsible for running the charm. To fetch logs associated with the charm of a particular unit:
sudo microk8s.kubectl logs --namespace openstack --container charm <pod_name>
Information: The charm container logs are also available through juju debug-log -m openstack, and will be present in the sunbeam inspection report.
To fetch the payload logs, use:
sudo microk8s.kubectl logs --namespace openstack --container <container_name> <pod_name>
MicroCeph
If nodes are deployed with the storage role enabled, MicroCeph will be deployed as part of the cluster.
The status of MicroCeph can be checked using:
sudo microceph status
and the status of the Ceph cluster can be displayed using:
sudo ceph -s
Sunbeam MicroCluster
Sunbeam MicroCluster provides some basic cluster coordination and state sharing services as part of MicroStack. The status of the nodes participating in the Sunbeam MicroCluster can be queried using the following command:
sunbeam cluster list
The state of the local daemon managing the nodes participation in the cluster can also be checked and the log output captured if need be:
sudo systemctl status snap.openstack.clusterd.service
sudo journalctl -xe -u snap.openstack.clusterd.service
Inspect Terraform plans
Sunbeam makes extensive use of Terraform to deploy OpenStack. In some rare cases a Terraform plan can stay locked making it impossible to re-run commands on the bootstrap node or add new nodes to the deployment.
To list the current lock state of all Terraform plans:
sunbeam inspect plans
To unlock a specific Terraform plan:
sunbeam inspect unlock-plan --plan <plan_name>
This command may prompt you to confirm unlocking depending on how recent the lock timestamp is.
Caution: Ensure that there are no administrative operations underway in the deployment when unlocking a Terraform plan. Otherwise, the deployment’s integrity can be compromised.