devstack/doc/source/plugins.rst

Plugins

DevStack has a couple of plugin mechanisms to allow easily adding support for additional projects and features.

Extras.d Hooks

These relatively new hooks are an extension of the existing calls from stack.sh at the end of its run, plus unstack.sh and clean.sh. A number of the higher-layer projects are implemented in DevStack using this mechanism.

The script in extras.d is expected to be mostly a dispatcher to functions in a lib/* script. The scripts are named with a zero-padded two digits sequence number prefix to control the order that the scripts are called, and with a suffix of .sh. DevSack reserves for itself the sequence numbers 00 through 09 and 90 through 99.

Below is a template that shows handlers for the possible command-line arguments:

# template.sh - DevStack extras.d dispatch script template

# check for service enabled
if is_service_enabled template; then

    if [[ "$1" == "source" ]]; then
        # Initial source of lib script
        source $TOP_DIR/lib/template
    fi

    if [[ "$1" == "stack" && "$2" == "pre-install" ]]; then
        # Set up system services
        echo_summary "Configuring system services Template"
        install_package cowsay

    elif [[ "$1" == "stack" && "$2" == "install" ]]; then
        # Perform installation of service source
        echo_summary "Installing Template"
        install_template

    elif [[ "$1" == "stack" && "$2" == "post-config" ]]; then
        # Configure after the other layer 1 and 2 services have been configured
        echo_summary "Configuring Template"
        configure_template

    elif [[ "$1" == "stack" && "$2" == "extra" ]]; then
        # Initialize and start the template service
        echo_summary "Initializing Template"
        ##init_template
    fi

    if [[ "$1" == "unstack" ]]; then
        # Shut down template services
        # no-op
        :
    fi

    if [[ "$1" == "clean" ]]; then
        # Remove state and transient data
        # Remember clean.sh first calls unstack.sh
        # no-op
        :
    fi
fi

The arguments are:

• source - Called by each script that utilizes extras.d hooks; this replaces directly sourcing the lib/* script.
• stack - Called by stack.sh three times for different phases of its run:
  • pre-install - Called after system (OS) setup is complete and before project source is installed.
  • install - Called after the layer 1 and 2 projects source and their dependencies have been installed.
  • post-config - Called after the layer 1 and 2 services have been configured. All configuration files for enabled services should exist at this point.
  • extra - Called near the end after layer 1 and 2 services have been started. This is the existing hook and has not otherwise changed.
• unstack - Called by unstack.sh before other services are shut down.
• clean - Called by clean.sh before other services are cleaned, but after unstack.sh has been called.

Hypervisor

Hypervisor plugins are fairly new and condense most hypervisor configuration into one place.

The initial plugin implemented was for Docker support and is a useful template for the required support. Plugins are placed in lib/nova_plugins and named hypervisor-<name> where <name> is the value of VIRT_DRIVER. Plugins must define the following functions:

• install_nova_hypervisor - install any external requirements
• configure_nova_hypervisor - make configuration changes, including those to other services
• start_nova_hypervisor - start any external services
• stop_nova_hypervisor - stop any external services
• cleanup_nova_hypervisor - remove transient data and cache