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OpenShift Ansible Broker Configuration

Overview

When the OpenShift Ansible broker (OAB) is deployed in a cluster, its behavior is largely dictated by the broker’s configuration file loaded on startup. The broker’s configuration is stored as a ConfigMap object in the broker’s namespace (openshift-ansible-service-broker by default).

Example OpenShift Ansible Broker Configuration File
registry: (1)
  - type: dockerhub
    name: docker
    url: https://registry.hub.docker.com
    org: <dockerhub_org>
    fail_on_error: false
  - type: rhcc
    name: rhcc
    url: https://registry.access.redhat.com
    fail_on_error: true
    white_list:
      - "^foo.*-apb$"
      - ".*-apb$"
    black_list:
      - "bar.*-apb$"
      - "^my-apb$"
  - type: local_openshift
    name: lo
    namespaces:
      - openshift
    white_list:
      - ".*-apb$"
dao: (2)
  etcd_host: localhost
  etcd_port: 2379
log: (3)
  logfile: /var/log/ansible-service-broker/asb.log
  stdout: true
  level: debug
  color: true
openshift: (4)
  host: ""
  ca_file: ""
  bearer_token_file: ""
  image_pull_policy: IfNotPresent
  sandbox_role: "edit"
  keep_namespace: false
  keep_namespace_on_error: true
broker: (5)
  bootstrap_on_startup: true
  dev_broker: true
  launch_apb_on_bind: false
  recovery: true
  output_request: true
  ssl_cert_key: /path/to/key
  ssl_cert: /path/to/cert
  refresh_interval: "600s"
  auth:
    - type: basic
      enabled: true
secrets: (6)
  - title: Database credentials
    secret: db_creds
    apb_name: dh-rhscl-postgresql-apb
1 See Registry Configuration for details.
2 See DAO Configuration for details.
3 See Log Configuration for details.
4 See OpenShift Configuration for details.
5 See Broker Configuration for details.
6 See Secrets Configuration for details.

Modifying the OpenShift Ansible Broker Configuration

To modify the OAB’s default broker configuration after it has been deployed:

  1. Edit the the broker-config ConfigMap object in the OAB’s namespace as a user with cluster-admin privileges:

    $ oc edit configmap broker-config -n openshift-ansible-service-broker

  2. After saving any updates, redeploy the OAB’s deployment configuration for the changes to take effect:

    $ oc rollout latest dc/asb -n openshift-ansible-service-broker

Registry Configuration

The registry section allows you to define the registries that the broker should look at for APBs.

Table 1. registry Section Configuration Options
Field Description Required

name

The name of the registry. Used by the broker to identify APBs from this registry.

Y

user

The user name for authenticating to the registry. Not used when auth_type is set to secret or file.

N

pass

The password for authenticating to the registry. Not used when auth_type is set to secret or file.

N

auth_type

How the broker should read the registry credentials if they are not defined in the broker configuration via user and pass. Can be secret (uses a secret in the broker namespace) or file (uses a mounted file).

N

auth_name

Name of the secret or file storing the registry credentials that should be read. Used when auth_type is set to secret.

N, only required when auth_type is set to secret or file.

org

The namespace or organization that the image is contained in.

N

type

The type of registry. Available adapters are mock, rhcc, openshift, dockerhub, and local_openshift.

Y

namespaces

The list of namespaces to configure the local_openshift registry type with. By default, a user should use openshift.

N

url

The URL that is used to retrieve image information. Used extensively for RHCC while the dockerhub type uses hard-coded URLs.

N

fail_on_error

Should this registry fail, the bootstrap request if it fails. Will stop the execution of other registries loading.

N

white_list

The list of regular expressions used to define which image names should be allowed through. Must have a white list to allow APBs to be added to the catalog. The most permissive regular expression that you can use is .*-apb$ if you would want to retrieve all APBs in a registry. See APB Filtering for more details.

N

black_list

The list of regular expressions used to define which images names should never be allowed through. See APB Filtering for more details.

N

images

The list of images to be used with an OpenShift Container Registry.

N

Production or Development

A production broker configuration is designed to be pointed at a trusted container distribution registry, such as the Red Hat Container Catalog (RHCC):

registry:
  - name: rhcc
    type: rhcc
    url: https://registry.access.redhat.com
    tag: v3.7
    white_list:
      - ".*-apb$"
  - type: local_openshift
    name: localregistry
    namespaces:
      - openshift
    white_list: []

However, a development broker configuration is primarily used by developers working on the broker. To enable developer settings, set the registry name to dev and the dev_broker field in the broker section to true:

registry:
  name: dev
broker:
  dev_broker: true

Storing Registry Credentials

The broker configuration determines how the broker should read any registry credentials. They can be read from the user and pass values in the registry section, for example:

registry:
  - name: isv
    type: openshift
    url: https://registry.connect.redhat.com
    user: <user>
    pass: <password>

If you want to ensure these credentials are not publicly accessible, the auth_type field in the registry section can be set to the secret or file type. The secret type configures a registry to use a secret from the broker’s namespace, while the file type configures a registry to use a secret that has been mounted as a volume.

To use the secret or file type:

  1. The associated secret should have the values username and password defined. When using a secret, you must ensure that the openshift-ansible-service-broker namespace exists, as this is where the secret will be read from.

    For example, create a reg-creds.yaml file:

    $ cat reg-creds.yaml
---
username: <username>
password: <password>

  2. Create a secret from this file in the openshift-ansible-service-broker namespace:

    $ oc create secret generic \
    registry-credentials-secret \
    --from-file reg-creds.yaml \
    -n openshift-ansible-service-broker

  3. Choose whether you want to use the secret or file type:

    • To use the secret type:

      1. In the broker configuration, set auth_type to secret and auth_name to the name of the secret:

        registry:
  - name: isv
    type: openshift
    url: https://registry.connect.redhat.com
    auth_type: secret
    auth_name: registry-credentials-secret

      2. Set the namespace where the secret is located:

        openshift:
  namespace: openshift-ansible-service-broker

    • To use the file type:

      1. Edit the asb deployment configuration to mount your file into /tmp/registry-credentials/reg-creds.yaml:

        $ oc edit dc/asb -n openshift-ansible-service-broker

        In the containers.volumeMounts section, add:

          volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /tmp/registry-credentials
      name: reg-auth

        In the volumes section, add:

            volumes:
      - name: reg-auth
        secret:
          defaultMode: 420
          secretName: registry-credentials-secret

      2. In the broker configuration, set auth_type to file and auth_type to the location of the file:

        registry:
  - name: isv
    type: openshift
    url: https://registry.connect.redhat.com
    auth_type: file
    auth_name: /tmp/registry-credentials/reg-creds.yaml

Mock Registry

A mock registry is useful for reading local APB specs. Instead of going out to a registry to search for image specs, this uses a list of local specs. Set the name of the registry to mock to use the mock registry.

registry:
  - name: mock
    type: mock

Dockerhub Registry

The dockerhub type allows you to load APBs from a specific organization in the DockerHub. For example, the ansibleplaybookbundle organization.

registry:
  - name: dockerhub
    type: dockerhub
    org: ansibleplaybookbundle
    user: <user>
    pass: <password>
    white_list:
      - ".*-apb$"

APB Filtering

APBs can be filtered out by their image name using a combination of the white_list or black_list parameters, set on a registry basis inside the broker’s configuration.

Both are optional lists of regular expressions that will be run over the total set of discovered APBs for a given registry to determine matches.

Table 2. APB Filter Behavior
Present Allowed Blocked

Only whitelist

Matches a regex in list.

Any APB that does not match.

Only blacklist

All APBs that do not match.

APBs that match a regex in list.

Both present

Matches regex in whitelist but not in blacklist.

APBs that match a regex in blacklist.

None

No APBs from the registry.

All APBs from that registry.

For example:

Whitelist Only
white_list:
  - "foo.*-apb$"
  - "^my-apb$"

Anything matching on foo.*-apb$ and only my-apb will be allowed through in this case. All other APBs will be rejected.

Blacklist Only
black_list:
  - "bar.*-apb$"
  - "^foobar-apb$"

Anything matching on bar.*-apb$ and only foobar-apb will be blocked in this case. All other APBs will be allowed through.

Whitelist and Blacklist
white_list:
  - "foo.*-apb$"
  - "^my-apb$"
black_list:
  - "^foo-rootkit-apb$"

Here, foo-rootkit-apb is specifically blocked by the blacklist despite its match in the whitelist because the whitelist match is overridden.

Otherwise, only those matching on foo.*-apb$ and my-apb will be allowed through.

Example Broker Configuration registry Section:
registry:
  - type: dockerhub
    name: dockerhub
    url: https://registry.hub.docker.com
    user: <user>
    pass: <password>
    org: <org>
    white_list:
      - "foo.*-apb$"
      - "^my-apb$"
    black_list:
      - "bar.*-apb$"
      - "^foobar-apb$"

Local OpenShift Container Registry

Using the local_openshift type will allow you to load APBs from the OpenShift Container Registry that is internal to the OpenShift Origin cluster. You can configure the namespaces in which you want to look for published APBs.

registry:
  - type: local_openshift
    name: lo
    namespaces:
      - openshift
    white_list:
      - ".*-apb$"

Red Hat Container Catalog Registry

Using the rhcc type will allow you to load APBs that are published to the Red Hat Container Catalog (RHCC) registry.

registry:
  - name: rhcc
    type: rhcc
    url: https://registry.access.redhat.com
    white_list:
      - ".*-apb$"

ISV Registry

Using the openshift type allows you to load APBs that are published to the ISV container registry at registry.connect.redhat.com.

registry:
  - name: isv
    type: openshift
    user: <user> (1)
    pass: <password>
    url: https://registry.connect.redhat.com
    images: (2)
      - <image_1>
      - <image_2>
    white_list:
      - ".*-apb$"
1 See Storing Registry Credentials for other authentication options.
2 Because the openshift type currently cannot search the configured registry, it is required that you configure the broker with a list of images you would like to source from for when the broker bootstraps. The image names must be the fully qualified name without the registry URL.

Multiple Registries

You can use more than one registry to separate APBs into logical organizations and be able to manage them from the same broker. The registries must have a unique, non-empty name. If there is no unique name, the service broker will fail to start with an error message alerting you to the problem.

registry:
  - name: dockerhub
    type: dockerhub
    org: ansibleplaybookbundle
    user: <user>
    pass: <password>
    white_list:
      - ".*-apb$"
  - name: rhcc
    type: rhcc
    url: <rhcc_url>
    white_list:
      - ".*-apb$"

DAO Configuration

Field Description Required

etcd_host

The URL of the etcd host.

Y

etcd_port

The port to use when communicating with etcd_host.

Y

Log Configuration

Field Description Required

logfile

Where to write the broker’s logs.

Y

stdout

Write logs to stdout.

Y

level

Level of the log output.

Y

color

Color the logs.

Y

OpenShift Configuration

Field Description Required

host

OpenShift Origin host.

N

ca_file

Location of the certificate authority file.

N

bearer_token_file

Location of bearer token to be used.

N

image_pull_policy

When to pull the image.

Y

namespace

The namespace that the broker has been deployed to. Important for things like passing parameter values via secret.

Y

sandbox_role

Role to give to an APB sandbox environment.

Y

keep_namespace

Always keep namespace after an APB execution.

N

keep_namespace_on_error

Keep namespace after an APB execution has an error.

N

Broker Configuration

The broker section tells the broker what functionality should be enabled and disabled. It will also tell the broker where to find files on disk that will enable the full functionality.

With the absence of async bind, setting launch_apb_on_bind to true can cause the bind action to timeout and will span a retry. The broker will handle this with "409 Conflicts" because it is the same bind request with different parameters.
Field Description Default Value Required

dev_broker

Allow development routes to be accessible.

false

N

launch_apb_on_bind

Allow bind to be a no-op.

false

N

bootstrap_on_startup

Allow the broker attempt to bootstrap itself on start up. Will retrieve the APBs from configured registries.

false

N

recovery

Allow the broker to attempt to recover itself by dealing with pending jobs noted in etcd.

false

N

output_request

Allow the broker to output the requests to the log file as they come in for easier debugging.

false

N

ssl_cert_key

Tells the broker where to find the TLS key file. If not set, the API server will attempt to create one.

""

N

ssl_cert

Tells the broker where to find the TLS .crt file. If not set, the API server will attempt to create one.

""

N

refresh_interval

The interval to query registries for new image specs.

"600s"

N

auto_escalate

Allows the broker to escalate the permissions of a user while running the APB.

false

N

cluster_url

Sets the prefix for the URL that the broker is expecting.

ansible-service-broker

N

Secrets Configuration

The secrets section creates associations between secrets in the broker’s namespace and APBs the broker runs. The broker uses these rules to mount secrets into running APBs, allowing the user to use secrets to pass parameters without exposing them to the catalog or users.

The section is a list where each entry has the following structure:

Field Description Required

title

The title of the rule. This is just for display and output purposes.

Y

apb_name

The name of the APB to associate with the specified secret. This is the fully qualified name (<registry_name>-<image_name>).

Y

secret

The name of the secret to pull parameters from.

Y

You can download and use the create_broker_secret.py file to create and format this configuration section.

secrets:
- title: Database credentials
  secret: db_creds
  apb_name: dh-rhscl-postgresql-apb