Installation

Nodepool consists of a long-running daemon which uses ZooKeeper for coordination with Zuul.

External Requirements

ZooKeeper

Nodepool uses ZooKeeper to coordinate image builds with its separate image builder component. A single ZooKeeper instance running on the Nodepool server is fine. Larger installations may wish to use a multi-node ZooKeeper installation, in which case three nodes are usually recommended.

Nodepool only needs to be told how to contact the ZooKeeper cluster; it will automatically populate the ZNode structure as needed.

Statsd and Graphite

If you have a Graphite system with statsd, Nodepool can be configured to send information to it. Set the environment variable STATSD_HOST to the statsd hostname (and optionally STATSD_PORT if this should be different to the default 8125) for the Nodepool daemon to enable this support.

If using the OpenStack driver, setting these variables will enable openstacksdk reporting. By default, openstacksdk will report OpenStack API statistics prefixed with openstack.api. To override this, for example to report API statistics on a per-cloud basis, see the OpenStack SDK configuration documentation on metrics.

Install Nodepool

Install Nodepool prerequisites.

Nodepool requires Python 3.6 or newer.

RHEL 7 / CentOS 7:

yum install libffi libffi-devel @development python python-devel

You may install Nodepool directly from PyPI with pip:

pip install nodepool

Or install directly from a git checkout with:

pip install .

Configuration

Nodepool has one required configuration file, which defaults to /etc/nodepool/nodepool.yaml. This can be changed with the -c option. The Nodepool configuration file is described in Configuration.

There is support for a secure file that is used to store nodepool configurations that contain sensitive data. It currently only supports specifying ZooKeeper credentials and diskimage env-vars. If ZooKeeper credentials or diskimage env-vars are defined in both configuration files, the data in the secure file takes precedence. The secure file location can be changed with the -s option and follows the same file format as the Nodepool configuration file.

Warning

Secrets stored in diskimage env-vars may be leaked by the elements or in the image build logs. Before using sensitive information in env-vars, please carefully audit the elements that are enabled and ensure they are handling the environment safely.

There is an optional logging configuration file, specified with the -l option. The logging configuration file can accept either:

The Nodepool configuration file is described in Configuration.