前言: 最近开始捣鼓OpenStack了,在用RDO部署OpenStack的时候,发现装了Redis, 遂决定看看OpenStack哪些地方(可以)用到Redis。
- Redis作为OpenStack Dashboard的session storage backend
目前(M版本,后面默认为M版本) OpenStack的Dashboard支持以下三种session storage backend:
Local memory cache
Key-Value store(Memcached, Redis)
Database(Mysql/Mariadb)
其中Local memory cache是最简单而且是最快的,但是缺点也很明显,比如在process和worker之间不能共享,存储随着process结束而结束。Database作为backend相对而言最慢的,但是可以做到scalable,persistent. K-V storage速度上介于两者之间,也可以salable,比较适合小规模部署的环境,一下是配置Redis作为Session storage的backend。
1. 安装依赖包:redis, django-redis。
2. 修改local_settings配置文件:/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.
SESSION_ENGINE = 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' CACHES = { "default": { "BACKEND": "redis_cache.cache.RedisCache", "LOCATION": "127.0.0.1:6379:1", "OPTIONS": { "CLIENT_CLASS": "redis_cache.client.DefaultClient", } } }如果django-redis版本是3.8.0或以上,那么应该要这样配置(https://niwinz.github.io/django-redis/latest/#_configure_as_cache_backend):
SESSION_ENGINE = 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' CACHES = { 'default': { 'BACKEND': 'django_redis.cache.RedisCache', 'LOCATION': 'redis://127.0.0.1:6379/1', 'OPTIONS': { 'CLIENT_CLASS': 'django_redis.client.DefaultClient', } } }3. 重启httpd/apache, 登陆Dashboard,然后查看Redis的key:

- Redis作为OpenStack Keystone的token storage backend
Keystone支持的Token storage backend目前有三个:
Mysql(Mariadb)
MemCache
Redis
Mysql会有token无限增长的问题,需要定期清理不需要的token, Memcache的问题是空间固定,不好扩容,相对而言Redis是一个不错的选择,一下是配置Redis的步骤:
1. 安装依赖包: Redis.
2. 修改keystone.conf:
[cache] enabled=true expiration_time=600 backend=dogpile.cache.redis backend_argument=url:redis://127.0.0.1:6379/2 [token] caching=true driver = keystone.token.persistence.backends.kvs.Token
3. 重启keystone(httpd), 查看Redis的key:

- Redis作为OpenStack Telemetry的多个agent instances之间协作的backend
RDO 安装后,默认的就是Redis作为backend, 参看/etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf:
[coordination] # # From ceilometer # # The backend URL to use for distributed coordination. If left empty, per- # deployment central agent and per-host compute agent won't do workload # partitioning and will only function correctly if a single instance of that # service is running. (string value) #backend_url = <None> backend_url = redis://9.114.112.108:6379 # Number of seconds between heartbeats for distributed coordination. (floating # point value) #heartbeat = 1.0 # Number of seconds between checks to see if group membership has changed # (floating point value) #check_watchers = 10.0
