The microstack-support interface enables multiple service access for the Microstack infrastructure. It’s used by the Microstack snap, a full OpenStack deployment within a single snap package.
Virtual machines are spawned as QEMU processes with libvirt acting as a management daemon (including for activities such as applying AppArmor profiles).
Networking is provided largely via OpenVSwitch and Neutron, with dnsmasq acting as an auxiliary daemon. A tun/tap kernel module is used for creating virtual interfaces.
Virtual machines rely on KVM for virtualisation acceleration and the vhost framework in the kernel (vhost_net, vhost_scsi, vhost_vsock).
See Interface management and Supported interfaces for further details on how interfaces are used.
Developer details
Auto-connect: no
Super-privileged: yes
This interface allows MicroStack to operate by allowing the necessary system calls to be used by the following services:
- libvirt
- qemu
- qemu-img
- Nova
- Neutron
- Keystone
- Glance
- Cinder
Code examples
The snapcraft.yaml for MicroStack can be found here: https://github.com/coreycb/microstack/blob/1-tls/snapcraft.yaml
The source code for the interface is in the snapd repository: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/interfaces/builtin/microstack_support.go