Job Description

Job Overview: Implementation for Cloud project with Redhat OpenStack

Responsibilities and Duties:

1. Requirements Gathering and to Ensure Environmental Readiness

• Work with all stakeholders to derive High Level Infrastructure Design for the
deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform based on Red Hat best
practices.

• Work with stakeholders to ensure environmental readiness in terms of server hardware,

network, and storage hardware.

• Prepare engagement and delivery journals.

• Function as a single point of contact together with the Solution Architect for all
technical designs.

2. Installation and Configuration of Management Node

• Install and configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on Management Node Physical
Server.

• Install and configure RHEL 7 RHEL-KVM guests on the Management Node. Function
will be for Red Hat OpenStack Director (RHEL OSP-d) and Red Hat Storage server.

• Configure necessary Linux networking bridges for the RHEL-KVM guests.

3. Installation and Configuration of OSP-Director (Undercloud)

• Install and configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on OSP-Director RHEL/KVM guest.

• Configure system parameters such as Hostname, Installation Use, DNS, SELinux, NTP,
proxy and IPTABLES firewall on the OSP-Director node for proper functioning of
OSPDirector.

• Register the OSP-Director to the required RHEL and OpenStack repositories.

• Prepare the Undercloud deployment configuration file with environmental details

gathered in Service 1.

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 • Install the OSP-Director, upload discovery and full Overcloud images into Undercloud's
glance repository.

• Validate that OSP-Director is properly installed.

4. Installation of RHEL-OSP (Overcloud)

• Register, Inspect and Tag physical servers for Overcloud installation.

• Create necessary node flavours and hardware profiles for OverCloud installation.

• Prepare network environmental and other deployment files for OverCloud installation.

• Prepare disk partitions for Ceph deployment.

• Deploy 25 OSP Overcloud nodes ( 9 x OSP Controller Nodes, 4 x OSP Compute Node
and 12 x Ceph Nodes) through Heat Stack deployment.

5. Validation of OpenStack Functionalities

• Import of 1 x Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud image into Glance

• Create an OverCloud External Network

• Create an Overcloud Tenant Network and router

• Attach external and internal network interfaces to router

• Provision up to 4 virtual instances through "boot from image" function

• Attach Intranet Floating IPs to the Virtual Instances

• Create necessary security groups

• Provision and attach Cinder volumes to virtual instances to test Cinder functionality

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 6. Installation and Configuration of Ceph and Ceph Mgmt Node

• Install the Ceph software on up to 9 monitor nodes and OSD nodes.

• Configure ceph.conf for the Ceph Cluster.

• Create initial Ceph cluster with monitor deployment.

• Deploy OSDs based on OSD journal size configuration.

• Configure public/cluster networks & management network if needed.

• Verify the OSDs start / stop / restart.

• Configure Ceph Block Storage to work with OpenStack Cinder

• Create additional storage pools as required within the engagement timeframe.

• Import and configure Red Hat Ceph Storage Console Server onto Management Node.

7. Red Hat OpenStack certified VNF Onboarding

• Assistance to onboard VNF into Glance

• Assistance in creation of instances

• Assistance in installing VNF into instances

• DPDK (VirtIO/SRIO/PCI Passthrough)

• Smart NIC vRouter

• Kernel vRouter

• Assistance in integration with Juniper Contrail for SDN settings with Juniper Contrail
team

• Wiki Labs shall provide the network settings of OSP environment only

• Juniper Contrails SDN settings shall be defined by Juniper team

• Assistance in performing test phases for VNF Onboarding

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 8. Installation and configuration of Open Source tools

• Installation and configurations of Open source tools on the Openstack VMs below

• Zabbix for network monitoring purposes

• 2 x MariaDB database instances

• 2 x Tomcat instances

• 2 x Pacemaker and Corosync instances

• 2 x Bacula backup instances

• DPDK settings

• Assistance in identifying parameter to tune the OpenStack based on the Open source
tools above.

9. Perform test phases

• Create unit tests documents and generate report

• Perform unit tests on OpenStack and VNF components

• Create UAT documents and generate report

• Perform OpenStack UAT with customer (including Ceph)

• Support NFV UAT

10. Performance tuning assistance

• Monitor performance of Red Hat OpenStack

• Assistance in identifying parameter to tune the OpenStack.

Qualifications:

 Specific skills on the JD mentioned

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