mc-incus-deploy

Ansible playbook for deploying an Incus cluster with OVN network support.
This project is adapted from incus-deploy to support Magic Castle clusters.

Usage

1. Copy hosts.yaml.example to hosts.yaml.
2. Update the variables and add the corresponding hosts.
3. Install dependencies:

   ansible-galaxy install -r ansible_requirements.yml
   

4. Deploy playbook:

  ansible-playbook ./deploy.yaml

Variables

Incus

• incus_name: Name identifier for the deployment (required, type: string)
• incus_init: Initial configuration data (type: dict)
  • config: Dict of config keys
  • clients: Dict of client certificates to trust
    • type: Type of certificate, typically client or metrics (required, type: string)
    • certificate: PEM encoded certificate (required, type: string)
  • network: Dict of networks
    • name: Name of the network (required, type: string)
    • type: Type of network (required, type: string)
    • default: Whether to include in the default profile (type: bool, default: False)
    • config: Dict of global config keys
    • local_config: Dict of server-specific config keys
  • storage: Dict of storage pools
    • name: Name of the storage pool (required, type: string)
    • driver: Storage pool driver (required, type: string)
    • default: Whether to include in the default profile (type: bool, default: False)
    • config: Dict of global config keys
    • local_config: Dict of server-specific config keys
• incus_ip_address: Override for the server's IP address (used cluster and client traffic) (type: string)
• incus_release: Incus release to deploy, can be one of daily, stable or lts-6.0 (type: string, default: stable)
• incus_roles: Operation mode for the deployed Incus system (required, type: string)
  • standalone
  • cluster
  • ui: Whether to serve the Incus UI

OVN

• ovn_az_name: OVN availability zone name (required if using OVN IC, type: string)
• ovn_clients: List of certificates to generate for OVN clients (type: list of string)
• ovn_ip_address: Override for the server's IP address (used for tunnels and DB traffic) (type: string)
• ovn_name: OVN deployment name (required, type: string)
• ovn_release: OVN release to deploy, can be distro or ppa (type: string, default: distro)
• ovn_roles: List of roles the server should have in the OVN cluster (required, type: list of string):
  • central: OVN API server, runs NorthBound and SouthBound database and northd daemon
  • host: OVN client / controller, runs OpenVswitch and ovn-controller
  • ic: OVN Inter-Connection server, runs the ovn-ic daemon
  • ic-db: OVN Inter-Connection NorthBound and SouthBound database server
  • ic-gateway: OVN Inter-Connection traffic gateway