OneFlow Configuration

OneFlow orchestrates multi-VM services as a whole, interacts with the OpenNebula Daemon to manage the Virtual Machines (starts, stops), and can be controlled via the Sunstone GUI or over CLI. It’s a dedicated daemon installed by default as part of the Single Front-end Installation, but can be deployed independently on a different machine. The server is distributed as an operating system package opennebula-flow with the system service opennebula-flow.

Read more in Multi-VM Service Management.

Configuration

The OneFlow configuration file can be found in /etc/one/oneflow-server.conf on your Front-end. It uses YAML syntax, with the parameters listed in the table below.

Note

After a configuration change, the OneFlow server must be restarted to take effect.

Tip

For a quick view of any changes in configuration file options in maintenance releases, check the Resolved Issues page in the Release Notes for the release. Please note that even in the case of changes (such as a new option available), you do not need to update your configuration files unless you wish to change the application’s behavior.

Parameter	Description
Server Configuration
`:one_xmlrpc`	Endpoint of OpenNebula XML-RPC API
`:subscriber_endpoint`	Endpoint for ZeroMQ subscriptions
`:autoscaler_interval`	Time in seconds between each evaluation of elasticity rules
`:host`	Host/IP where OneFlow will listen
`:port`	Port where OneFlow will listen
`:force_deletion`	Force deletion of VMs on terminate signal
`:retries`	Retries in case of aborting call due to authentication issue
Defaults
`:default_cooldown`	Default cooldown period after a scale operation, in seconds
`:wait_timeout`	Default time to wait for VMs state changes, in seconds
`:concurrency`	Number of threads to make actions with flows
`:shutdown_action`	Default shutdown action. Values: `shutdown`, `shutdown-hard`
`:action_number` `:action_period`	Default number of Virtual Machines (`:action_number`) that will receive the given call in each interval (`:action_period`), when an action is performed on a Role.
`:vm_name_template`	Default name for the Virtual Machines created by Oneflow. You can use any of the following placeholders: `$SERVICE_ID`, `$SERVICE_NAME`, `$ROLE_NAME`, `$VM_NUMBER`.
`:page_size`	Default page size when purging DONE services
Authentication
`:core_auth`	Authentication driver to communicate with OpenNebula core * `cipher` for symmetric cipher encryption of tokens * `x509` for X.509 certificate encryption of tokens For more information, visit the Cloud Server Authentication reference.
Logging
`:debug_level`	Logging level. Values: `0` for ERROR level, `1` for WARNING level, `2` for INFO level, `3` for DEBUG level
`:expire_delta`	Default interval for timestamps. Tokens will be generated using the same timestamp for this interval of time. THIS VALUE CANNOT BE LOWER THAN EXPIRE_MARGIN.
`:expire_margin`	Tokens will be generated if time > EXPIRE_TIME - EXPIRE_MARGIN

In the default configuration, the OneFlow server will only listen to requests coming from localhost (which is enough to control OneFlow over Sunstone running on the same Host). If you want to control OneFlow over API/CLI remotely, you need to change :host parameter in /etc/one/oneflow-server.conf to a public IP of your Front-end Host or to 0.0.0.0 (to work on all IP addresses configured on Host).

Configure Sunstone

Sunstone GUI enables end users to access the OneFlow from the UI and it directly connects to OneFlow on their behalf. Sunstone has configured the OneFlow endpoint it connects to in /etc/one/fireedge-server.conf in parameter :oneflow_server. When OneFlow is running on a different Host than Sunstone, the endpoint in Sunstone must be configured appropriately.

Sunstone tabs for OneFlow (Services and Service Templates) are enabled in Sunstone by default. To customize visibility for different types of users, follow the Sunstone Views documentation.

Configure CLI

OneFlow CLI (oneflow and oneflow-template) uses same credentials as other command-line tools. The login and password are taken from the file referenced by environment variable $ONE_AUTH (defaults to $HOME/.one/one_auth). Remote endpoint and (optionally) distinct user/password access to the above is configured in environment variable $ONEFLOW_URL (defaults to http://localhost:2474), $ONEFLOW_USER and $ONEFLOW_PASSWORD.

Example:

$ ONEFLOW_URL=http://one.example.com:2474 oneflow list

See more in Managing Users documentation.

Service Control and Logs

Change the server running state by managing the operating system service opennebula-flow.

To start, restart, or stop the server, execute one of:

# systemctl start   opennebula-flow
# systemctl restart opennebula-flow
# systemctl stop    opennebula-flow

To enable or disable automatic start on Host boot, execute one of:

# systemctl enable  opennebula-flow
# systemctl disable opennebula-flow

Server logs are located in /var/log/one in following files:

/var/log/one/oneflow.log
/var/log/one/oneflow.error

Logs of individual multi-VM Services managed by OneFlow can be found in

/var/log/one/oneflow/$ID.log where $ID identifies the service

Other logs are also available in Journald. Use the following command to show:

# journalctl -u opennebula-flow.service

Advanced Setup

Permission to Create Services

Documents are special types of resources in OpenNebula used by OneFlow to store Service Templates and information about Services. When a new user Group is created, you can decide if you want to allow/deny its users to create Documents (and also OneFlow Services). By default, new groups are allowed to create Document resources.

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