Add initial documentation on DEA files

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Signed-off-by: Josep Puigdemont <josep.puigdemont@enea.com>

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+DEA: Deployment Environment Adapter

+-----------------------------------

+

+This file has several sections, some of the sections are self describing:

+

+```

+title: Deployment Environment Adapter (DEA)

+version:

+comment: Config for LF POD1 - HA deployment with Ceph and Opendaylight

+wanted_release: Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04

+```

+

+## The Environment section

+

+environment:

+  name: opnfv

+  mode: ha                     # noha, no-ha?

+  net_segment_type: tun        # ?

+

+

+## The "Fuel" section

+

+```

+fuel:

+  ADMIN_NETWORK:                 # Static Fuel admin network configuration

+    cidr: 10.20.0.0/24           # this is the "fuelweb_admin" in the nodes

+    dhcp_gateway: 10.20.0.2      # nodes us this as default gateway

+    dhcp_pool_end: 10.20.0.254   # nodes get addresses from here

+    dhcp_pool_start: 10.20.0.3   # This is the Fuel server IP address

+    ipaddress: 10.20.0.2

+    netmask: 255.255.0.0         # netmask for nodes (otherwise why is it

+                                 # needed if CIDR above?

+  DNS_DOMAIN: domain.tld         #

+  DNS_SEARCH: domain.tld         #

+  DNS_UPSTREAM: 8.8.8.8          # Fuel->Network Settings->Other->DNS Servers

+  FUEL_ACCESS:

+    password: admin

+    user: admin

+  HOSTNAME: opnfv

+  NTP1: 0.pool.ntp.org           # Fuel->Newtok Setting->Other->NTP server list

+  NTP2: 1.pool.ntp.org

+  NTP3: 2.pool.ntp.org

+```

+

+It would make more sense if NTP was a list:

+

+```

+  NTP:

+     - 0.pool.ntp.org

+     - 1.pool.ntp.org

+     - 2.pool.ntp.org

+```

+

+Now I don't know if NTP4 would be a valid key...

+

+## The "node" section

+

+Then there is the important "node" section:

+

+```

+node:

+   - id: 1

+     interfaces: <some section describing interfaces>

+     transformations: <section describing what to do with the interfaces>

+     role: [controller|compute|cinder|...]

+   - id: 2

+      interfaces: interfaces_1

+      transformations: transformations_1

+      role: ceph-osd,controller

+   ...

+   - id: n

+     ...

+```

+

+Now, the "interfaces" section could be something line:

+

+```

+node:

+   - id: 1

+     interfaces: interfaces_1

+     transformations: transformations_1

+```

+

+## Interfaces

+

+In this case we would have a "section" called intefaces_apm, that looks like:

+

+```

+interfaces_1:

+  eth0:

+  - none # I made this up, I don't know if "none" is valid

+  eth1:

+  - fuelweb_admin

+  eth2:

+  - public

+  - storage     # vlan 2010

+  - management  # vlan 2011

+  - private     # vlan 2012

+```

+

+This is self describing in a way. eth1 is used as the interface for the

+"fuel admin" network, while eth2 will be used for what Fuel calls "public",

+"storage", "management" and "private" networks. These match the networks in

+the "networks" tab in the Fuel dashboard.

+

+## Transformations

+

+For now we won't come into huge detail about the transformations, but they

+seem to contain a list of "commands" issued to ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch).

+For example:

+

+```

+transformations_1:

+  transformations:

+  - ...

+  - action: add-port

+    bridge: br-mgmt

+    name: eth1.300

+  - ...

+```

+

+Basically the deploy script will issue the command:

+

+```

+  ovs-vsctl add-port br-mgmt eth1.300

+```

+(or ...eth1 tag=300)

+

+## The "network" section:

+

+The networks listed in each of the devices of the "interfaces_1" section

+are defined in the "network" section. Inside the "network" section, there is

+another section called "networks", with a list of networks defined:

+

+```

+network:

+   ...

+   networks:

+  - cidr: 192.168.0.0/24

+    gateway: null

+    ip_ranges:

+    - - 192.168.0.1

+      - 192.168.0.254

+    meta:

+      cidr: 192.168.0.0/24        # TBD: Can it be different from previos CIDR?

+                                  # Is this the default value in the UI?

+      configurable: true          # TBD, UI?

+      map_priority: 2             # TBD, UI?

+      name: management

+      notation: cidr              # TBD, UI?

+      render_addr_mask: internal  # TBD, UI?

+      render_type: cidr           # TBD, UI stuff?

+      use_gateway: false          # Only for public net, or for

+      vips:                       # TBD

+      - haproxy

+      - vrouter

+      vlan_start: 101

+    name: management

+    vlan_start: 300               # must match transformations

+  - cidr: ...

+    ...

+```

+

+Let's take the "management" network as an example. Here we define the

+netmask and several parameters that will look familiar when looking at the

+"Networks" Fuel dashboard tab. The available keys:

+- name: the name of the 

+- cdir: the CDIR for this network

+- gateway: an IP address (only for public network?)

+- ip_ranges: a list with the IP ranges available to this network.

+- vlan_start: When using vlan tagging, the first vlan tag

+- meta: (explained below)

+

+The purpose of the "meta" key is less obvious here, and some of the data

+appears to be redundant. My guess is that it is part of Fuel's user

+interface. The CIDR here would be the default and "notation" is probably the

+way it is displayed in the form field:

+

+- cidr: again the same CDIR as above [is this redundant? error prone?]

+- configurable: boolean [?]

+- map_priority: int [?]

+- name: again the same name as above?

+- notation: cidr [any other available keys?]

+- use_gateway: boolean [apparently only "true "if an IP was given above]

+- vips: This seems to be a list of "namespaces" defined later in the

+-       "network section".

+- vlan_start same as above...

+

+Now if we look back, in the "interfaces_1" section we had this:

+

+```

+interfaces_1:

+   eth2:

+      - management

+```

+

+This is clearly the network defined above. The same goes for "public",

+"storage" and "private".

+

+## The "network" section continued

+

+Apart from the definition of each of the networks and required by Fuel,

+the "network" section also has a "preamble" with the following parameters

+and corresponding setting in Fuel:

+

+```

+network:

+  management_vip: 192.168.0.2         # TBD (see vips)

+  management_vrouter_vip: 192.168.0.1 # TBD

+  public_vip: 172.30.9.64             # TBD

+  public_vrouter_vip: 172.30.9.65     # TBD

+  networking_parameters:              # Fuel->Networ->Settings

+    base_mac: fa:16:3e:00:00:00       # Neutron L2

+    configuration_template: null

+    dns_nameservers:                  # Neutron L3, guess OS DNS Servers

+    - 8.8.4.4

+    - 8.8.8.8

+    floating_ranges:                  # Neutron L3, floating Network Param

+    - - 172.30.9.160                  #  floating IP range start

+      - 172.30.9.254                  #  floating IP range end

+    gre_id_range:                     # Neutron L2, what if VXLAN?

+    - 2                               # Neutron L2, tunnel ID range start

+    - 65535                           # Neutron L2, tunnel ID range end

+                                      # Neutron L3, Internal Network

+                                      # Parameters

+    internal_cidr: 192.168.111.0/24   #  internal network CDIR

+    internal_gateway: 192.168.111.1   #  internal network gateway

+    net_l23_provider: ovs             # TBD: must match transformations?

+    segmentation_type: tun            # TBD: what options are there? tun/vlan?

+    vlan_range:                       # TBD

+    - 1000

+    - 1030

+  vips:

+    ...

+```

+

+## The "vips" in the "network" section

+

+In addition to all the above, the network section contains a "vips" section.

+I don't know what they mean, but there are some relations between these

+vips, and the networks defined above:

+

+```

+network:

+   vips:

+      management:

+         ipaddr: 192.168.0.2     # TBD: same as management_vip?

+         namespace: haproxy      # TBD: network namespace?

+         network_role: mgmt/vip  # TBD

+         node_roles:

+         - controller            # Why do we define it here?

+         - primary-controller    # for an HA environment?

+      public:

+         ...

+      vrouter:

+         ...

+      vrouter_pub:

+         ...

+```

+

+Also, in contrast to the "networks" section, the "vips" section is not a list,

+but a series of records...

+

+Some Fuel plugins seem to look at this particular setup, one of the examples

+in [2], absolute-dashboard-link.pp, reads:

+

+```

+$os_public_vip = $network_metadata['vips']['public']['ipaddr']

+```

+

+If you remember from above, each network has a "metadata" section, this

+matches the name of the variable $network_metadata. In that section there is

+a "vips" section, that contains a list of "vips", and one of the vips is

+"public", and one of the fields is "ipaddr".

+

+* [1] https://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-8.0/file-ref.html#fuel-file-reference-pages

+* [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel/Plugins

+

+

+## The "Settings" section

+

+This looks like user interface stuff and default settings. For instance:

+settings:

+

+```

+  editable:

+    ...

+    additional_components:

+      ceilometer:

+        description: If selected, Ceilometer component will be installed

+        label: Install Ceilometer

+        type: checkbox

+        value: false

+        weight: 40

+```

+

+This is clearly the label "Install Ceilometer" in the Fuel web dashboard.

+

+This looks like an email label entry with the corresponding regex to

+validate it:

+

+```

+settings:

+  editable:

+    access:

+      email:

+        description: Email address for Administrator

+        label: Email

+        regex:

+          error: Invalid email

+          source: ^\S+@\S+$

+        type: text

+        value: admin@localhost

+        weight: 40

+  ...

+```

+

+## Other

+

+I think most of it, specially the "settings" part, has been machine created.

+It would be nice to recreate one of this files from a manual Fuel

+deployment.