Astara is a network orchestration service designed for provisioning Neutron managed virtual network functions in an OpenStack deployment.

Currently this plugin is not compatible with the following features:

• Neutron DVR

• FWaaS

  • LBaaSv1

• other SDN solutions

• Mirantis Fuel 8.0
• Akanda Astara 8.0

The Astara plugin can be downloaded from the [Fuel Plugin Catalog]( https://www.mirantis.com/products/openstack-drivers-and-plugins/fuel-plugins/).

• Prepare a clean fuel master node.

• Copy the plugin onto the fuel master node:

  scp astara-fuel-plugin-1.0-1.0.0-0.noarch.rpm root@<Fuel_Master_Node_IP>:/tmp

• Install the plugin on the fuel master node:

  cd /tmp

  fuel plugins --install astara-fuel-plugin-1.0-1.0.0-0.noarch.rpm

• Check the plugin was installed:

  fuel plugins --list

To deploy a cluster with the Astara plugin, use the Fuel web UI to deploy an OpenStack cluster in the usual way, with the following guidelines:

• Create a new OpenStack environment, selecting:

  Liberty on Ubuntu Trusty

  "Neutron with VLAN segmentation" or "Neutron with tunneling segmentation" as the networking setup

• Under the network tab, configure the 'Network' settings for your environment. For example (exact values will depend on your setup):

  Public (External):

  • IP Range: 172.16.0.2 - 172.16.0.126

    • CIDR: 172.16.0.0/24
    • Use VLAN tagging: No
    • Gateway: 172.16.0.1

  • Floating IP range: 172.16.0.130 - 172.16.0.254

  Management (Management):

• Under the settings tab, make sure the following options are checked:

  "Use Astara Network Orchestrator"

• Under the setting tab, configure Astara Management Service Port, API Port, and Management IPv6 prefix

  • Astara Management IPv6 Prefix
  • Astara Management Service Port
  • Astara API Service Port

• Add nodes
• Deploy changes

Deployment of Openstack using Astara Network Orchestrator does the following:

• Configures Nova:

  Enable Metadata Service

  Enable IPv6

  Enables Nova to attach external networks to an VM Instance

• Configures Neutron:

  Disables Metadata Agent, L3 Agent, and DHCP Agent

  Enables Astara API extensions

  Enables Astara service plugin

  Enables Astara core plugin

• Uploads Astara Router Service VM into Openstack Image Service (glance)

• Configure Horizon:

  Enable Astara dashboard extensions

  Configure Astara management service details

• Create Public and Management Networks for Openstack deployment

None.

1.0.0

• Initial release of the plugin