[Antelope][Offline] - Offline Installation help

[Nilesh]

Hi,

I am Planning to install OSA Antelope with limited connectivity or no access of internet on the cloud.
I wanted to build the offline repository, But the information on the page [1] is not helping.

* First I am trying to build the pip repo, but I am not able to find out all the pip requirement that is needed, so I can just download all that at one place using pip freez and download

* Second I am able to mirror all the apt repo
* Third ansible-collection/galaxy/roles, - I am not able to find all ansible collection/galaxy roles,

Can you please help me to redirect to the page or list of all repo require to build offline repo.

[1]
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https://docs.openstack.org/openstack-ansible/latest/user/limited-connectivity/index.html
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[Dmitriy Rabotyagov (noonedeadpunk)]

Hey

So for PyPi mirrors, I'm not sure if we have a definitive list of packages that are used. But, I think upper-constraints.yml should cover >90% at very least: https://releases.openstack.org/constraints/upper/2023.1

Then, repos for service projects are expected to be forked repositories rater then part of PyPi. Since Antelope they're stored in a group_vars in files named source_git.yml, ie: https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible/src/branch/stable/2023.1/inventory/group_vars/nova_all/source_git.yml

You can either override openstack_github_base_url /
openstack_opendev_base_url or override path for each <service>_git_repo

Regarding apt repositories, I think we tried to mention most of them in the doc. So except default OS repos you'd also need:
* UCA for ubuntu, RDO for EL, ospbo for debian (ie for ubuntu placed here: https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-openstack_hosts/src/branch/master/vars/ubuntu-22.04.yml#L82-L93)
* MariaDB: https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-galera_server/src/branch/master/vars/debian.yml#L78-L84
* RabbitMQ: https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-rabbitmq_server/src/branch/master/vars/debian.yml#L25-L36
* Ceph (if used): https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-ceph_client/src/branch/master/vars/debian.yml#L49-L52

Regarding collection/roles - as of today we install all of them from git directly rather then ansible-galaxy. And these are spread over 2 files:
* roles: https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible/src/branch/master/ansible-role-requirements.yml
* collections: https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible/src/branch/master/ansible-collection-requirements.yml

Just in case, you can create /etc/openstack_deploy/user-(collection|role)-requirements.yml as well to extend/override content of these.

PS: We're using PULP quite sucessfully to mirror apt/pypi here internally together with OpenStack-Ansible: https://pulpproject.org/user/

[Nilesh (cnilesh)]

Hi Dmitiry,

Thank you so much for the quick response, I will start working on it, from next week, Will keep you posted about the progress.

[Nilesh (cnilesh)]

Hi Dmitiry,

Good morning/Evening.

If possible, Can you please help in sharing ur Working Notes on Pulp Setup of pipi builds.

I guess pulp will be more reliable/stable solution for long run.

Thank you.