Openshift-ansible: How to disable Openshift Ansible Service Broker?

[dharmit]

Description

By default, OpenShift Ansible Service Broker is enabled for 3.7 installation. Docs Link.

I don't need OpenShift Ansible Service Broker to be enabled by default. It tries to claim the PV that I'm trying to attach to Jenkins (with persistent storage).

Version

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.4.2.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, Aug  4 2017, 00:39:18) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)]

$ git describe
openshift-ansible-3.7.31-1-12-g0199c3b

Steps To Reproduce

This is default behavior. Just installing OpenShift v3.7 should suffice?

Expected Results

An option to disable OpenShift Ansible Service Broker in the Ansible hosts file or some other configuration option so that it doesn't try to claim the PV being attached to the cluster.

Observed Results

openshift-ansible-service-broker has a deployment called asb-etcd which tries to claim the PV attached to it. Since I didn't know about this earlier, because I am not planning on using openshift ansible service broker yet, it took me quite some time to figure the actual issue when a PV I created for the Jenkins deployment didn't succeed in being claimed by a PVC.

Additional Information

Provide any additional information which may help us diagnose the
issue.

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)

Inventory file gist link

[allen13]

Add this to your group_vars:
openshift_enable_service_catalog: false

[dharmit]

Would that disable only the openshift-ansible-service-broker project from being created by default or the entire service catalog (the new UI, if I understand correctly) from coming up?

[dharmit]

I tried this and it prevents few things (CI/CD and Databases tabs on "Browse Catalog") from being installed by default. openshift-ansible-service-broker being one of those. However, I do need Jenkins (CI/CD tab on the "Browse Catalog" page) available. Anyway, it shouldn't be much of a pain to deploy Jenkins but OOTB integration with jenkins-kubernetes plugin is something I'm kind of interested in.

I'll close this issue. It'd still be nice to just prevent openshift-ansible-service-broker from being setup (if that's possible.) Thanks for your help.

[jlsalmon]

Could this be reopened? We have several custom service brokers, but we don't want the ansible broker to be installed. It would be great if there was an option analogous to template_service_broker_install=false for the ansible broker.

[jocelynthode]

@jlsalmon : This is possible although not documented, using ansible_service_broker_install=false and ansible_service_broker_remove=true if already installed.

https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/blob/master/roles/ansible_service_broker/tasks/main.yml

[etoews]

Thanks a lot for the pointer @jocelynthode. I opened an issue to update the docs at https://github.com/openshift/openshift-docs/issues/9889