Creating the service tenant and service users

Now that the service endpoints are created, we can configure them so that our other OpenStack services can utilize them. To do this, each service is configured with a username and password within a special service tenant. Configuring each service to have its own username and password allows for greater security, troubleshooting, and auditing within our environment. When setting up a service to use the OpenStack Identity service for authentication and authorization, we specify these details in their relevant configuration file. Each service itself has to authenticate with keystone in order for it to be available within OpenStack. Configuration of that service is then done using these credentials. For example, for glance, we specify the following lines in /etc/glance/glance-registry.conf, when used with OpenStack Identity service, which matches what we created previously:

[keystone_authtoken]
identity_uri = https://192.168.100.200:35357
admin_tenant_name = service
admin_user = glance
admin_password = glance
insecure = True

Tip

The use of insecure = True here is only required as self-signed certificates are used throughout this book. In production, we would use issued certificates and omit this option in our configs.

Getting ready

We will be using the keystone client to operate Keystone. If the python-keystoneclient tool isn't available, follow the steps described at http://bit.ly/OpenStackCookbookClientInstall.

Ensure that we have our environment set correctly to access our OpenStack environment for administrative purposes:

export OS_TENANT_NAME=cookbook
export OS_USERNAME=admin
export OS_PASSWORD=openstack
export OS_AUTH_URL=https://192.168.100.200:5000/v2.0/
export OS_NO_CACHE=1
export OS_KEY=/vagrant/cakey.pem
export OS_CACERT=/vagrant/ca.pem

Tip

You can use the controller node if no other machines are available on your network, as this has the python-keystoneclient and the relevant access to the OpenStack environment. If you are using the Vagrant environment, issue the following command to get access to the Controller:

vagrant ssh controller

How to do it...

To configure an appropriate service tenant, carry out the following steps:

Create the service tenant as follows:

keystone tenant-create \
    --name service \
    --description "Service Tenant" \
    --enabled true

This produces output similar to what is shown as follows:

+-------------+----------------------------------+
|   Property  |              Value               |
+-------------+----------------------------------+
| description |          Service Tenant          |
|   enabled   |               True               |
|      id     | 8e77d9c13e884bf4809077722003bba0 |
|     name    |             service              |
+-------------+----------------------------------+

Record the ID of the service tenant so that we can assign service users to this ID:

SERVICE_TENANT_ID=$(keystone tenant-list \
    | awk '/\ service\ / {print $2}')

For each of the services in this section, we will create the user accounts to be named the same as the services and set the password to be the same as the service name too. For example, we will add a user called nova with a password nova in the service tenant by using the user-create option:

keystone user-create \
    --name nova \
    --pass nova \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID \
    --email nova@localhost \
    --enabled true

The preceding code will produce an output similar to what is shown here:

+----------+----------------------------------+
| Property |              Value               |
+----------+----------------------------------+
|  email   |          nova@localhost          |
| enabled  |               True               |
|    id    | 50ea356a4b6f4cb7a9fa22c1fb08549b |
|   name   |               nova               |
| tenantId | 42e5c284de244e3190e12cc44fbbbe62 |
| username |               nova               |
+----------+----------------------------------+

We then repeat this for each of our other services that will use OpenStack Identity service:

keystone user-create \
    --name glance \
    --pass glance \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID \
    --email glance@localhost \
    --enabled true

keystone user-create \
    --name keystone \
    --pass keystone \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID \
    --email keystone@localhost \
    --enabled true

keystone user-create \
    --name neutron \
    --pass neutron \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID \
    --email neutron@localhost \
    --enabled true

keystone user-create \
    --name cinder \
    --pass cinder \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID \
    --email cinder@localhost \
    --enabled true

We can now assign these users the admin role in the service tenant. To do this, we use the user-role-add option after retrieving the user ID of the nova user. For example, to add the admin role to the nova user in the service tenant, we use the following code:

# Get the nova user id
NOVA_USER_ID=$(keystone user-list \
    | awk '/\ nova\ / {print $2}')

# Get the admin role id
ADMIN_ROLE_ID=$(keystone role-list \
    | awk '/\ admin\ / {print $2}')

# Assign the nova user the admin role in service tenant
keystone user-role-add \
    --user $NOVA_USER_ID \
    --role $ADMIN_ROLE_ID \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID

We then repeat this for our other service users, glance, keystone, neutron, and cinder:

# Get the glance user id
GLANCE_USER_ID=$(keystone user-list \
    | awk '/\ glance\ / {print $2}')

# Assign the glance user the admin role in service tenant
keystone user-role-add \
    --user $GLANCE_USER_ID \
    --role $ADMIN_ROLE_ID \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID
# Get the keystone user id
KEYSTONE_USER_ID=$(keystone user-list \
    | awk '/\ keystone\ / {print $2}')

# Assign the keystone user the admin role in service tenant
keystone user-role-add \
    --user $KEYSTONE_USER_ID \
    --role $ADMIN_ROLE_ID \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID

# Get the cinder user id
NEUTRON_USER_ID=$(keystone user-list \
    | awk '/\ neutron \ / {print $2}')

# Assign the neutron user the admin role in service tenant
keystone user-role-add \
    --user $NEUTRON_USER_ID \
    --role $ADMIN_ROLE_ID \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID

# Get the cinder user id
CINDER_USER_ID=$(keystone user-list \
    | awk '/\ cinder \ / {print $2}')

# Assign the cinder user the admin role in service tenant
keystone user-role-add \
    --user $CINDER_USER_ID \
    --role $ADMIN_ROLE_ID \
    --tenant_id $SERVICE_TENANT_ID

How it works...

Creation of the service tenant, which is populated with the services required to run OpenStack, is no different from creating any other users on our system that require the admin role. We create the usernames and passwords and ensure that they exist in the service tenant with the admin role assigned to each user. We then use these credentials when configuring the services to authenticate with the OpenStack Identity service.

Tip

Downloading the example code

You can download the example code files for this book at https://github.com/OpenStackCookbook/OpenStackCookbook. All the support files are available here.

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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition

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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition

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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition

By : Cody Bunch

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition

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