Reproducing an Open vSwitch Bridge Configuration

In the previous post, I described the setup for installing FreeIPA on a VM parallel to the undercloud VM setup by Tripleo Quickstart. The network on the undercloud VM has been setup up by Ironic and Neutron to listen on a network defined for the overcloud. I want to reproduce this on a second machine that is not enrolled in the undercloud. How can I reproduce the steps?

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Certmonger logging for debugging

Certmonger is split into 3 parts

  1. getcert or comparable helper app which the user calls to make requests.  The request is put on dbus and and sent to
  2. The certmonger binary.  This reads the request off of dbus and makes a call to
  3. The help application which makes calls to the remote service.

Debugging this process is much easier if you run the certmonger service from the command line and tell it to log debugging output.  Make sure no certmonger-session processes are running:

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Testing Fernet Tokens on Tripleo

Not the way to do it long term, but this will give you a chance to play with it.

From the controller node:

sudo keystone-manage fernet_setup --keystone-user keystone --keystone-group keystone
sudo crudini --set /etc/keystone/keystone.conf token provider fernet
sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

Test it

$ openstack  token issue -f shell
expires="2016-05-05T05:21:44Z"
id="gAAAAABXKspYhz7Ti5ldwi0mU4D69NqTINEU_t-e8MoxqVkVhR40w1E7GOmgai-9lanr2Z6bnoyQSgNWIhD63UOm1Mlsm9_hw5oTCqVO_pWJZwTomlWM2BrG5LqTOyp6PNqYz2pZ0DIaSTOnOQPeVqKp4ot8S3B6oA4Xy1JZo3305DPiApCzOyQ"
project_id="b383d314cc344639939f2a9a381a6945"
user_id="4e154e7d166d4bd6b8199dfd3a6f2468"