Advanced OpenStack configuration (optional)

This section includes configuration information for available advanced Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes features that include DPDK with the Neutron OVS back end, huge pages, CPU pinning, and other Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) capabilities.

• Enable LVM ephemeral storage
• Enable LVM block storage
• Enable DPDK with OVS
• Enable SR-IOV with OVS
• Enable BGP VPN
• Encrypt the east-west traffic
• Enable Cinder back end for Glance
• Enable Cinder volume encryption
• Advanced configuration for OpenStack compute nodes
  • Configure the CPU model
  • Enable huge pages for OpenStack
  • Configure CPU isolation for an instance
    • Configure CPU isolation using isolcpus
    • Configure CPU isolation using cpusets
  • Configure custom CPU topologies
  • Configure PCI passthrough for guests
  • Limit HW resources for hyperconverged OpenStack compute nodes
• Enable image signature verification
• Enable Telemetry services
• Configure LoadBalancer for PowerDNS