Unable to install devstack with designate - ubuntu-18.04

Question

I am new to the OpenStack environment and started to get into it with a small DevStack setup. I worked the following instructions on a Ubuntu 18.04 machine through and everything worked fine. In order to play with some dns zones I started to research about designate. After adapting the following instructions to my setup I got some errors.
Executing stack.sh produces the following error:
++/opt/stack/designate/devstack/plugin.sh:source:5 set +o xtrace
2021-01-12 21:44:39.009 | Initializing Designate
DROP DATABASE
Could not load 'database': type object 'deprecated' has no attribute 'WALLABY'
Could not load 'pool': type object 'deprecated' has no attribute 'WALLABY'
Could not load 'tlds': type object 'deprecated' has no attribute 'WALLABY'
usage: designate [-h] [--config-dir DIR] [--config-file PATH] [--debug]
[--log-config-append PATH] [--log-date-format DATE_FORMAT]
[--log-dir LOG_DIR] [--log-file PATH] [--nodebug]
[--nouse-journal] [--nouse-json] [--nouse-syslog]
[--nowatch-log-file]
[--syslog-log-facility SYSLOG_LOG_FACILITY] [--use-journal]
[--use-json] [--use-syslog] [--watch-log-file]
{} ...
designate: error: argument category: invalid choice: 'database' (choose from )
Error on exit
World dumping... see /opt/stack/logs/worlddump-2021-01-12-214442.txt for details
nova-compute: no process found
neutron-dhcp-agent: no process found
neutron-l3-agent: no process found
neutron-metadata-agent: no process found
neutron-openvswitch-agent: no process found
I was not sure if my setup was legit. So I tried to use the example config from the designate tutorial. But the same problem occurred.
My actual local.conf:
[[local|localrc]]
USE_PYTHON3=True
ADMIN_PASSWORD=***
DATABASE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
RABBIT_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
SERVICE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
SERVICE_TOKEN=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
DEST=/opt/stack
SERVICE_HOST=192.168.1.***
HOST_IP=$SERVICE_HOST
disable_service mysql
enable_service postgresql
enable_plugin designate https://opendev.org/openstack/designate
enable_service tempest
Checking the plugin.sh. It looks like the error occurred from this function:
function init_designate {
# (Re)create designate database
recreate_database designate utf8
# Init and migrate designate database
$DESIGNATE_BIN_DIR/designate-manage database sync
init_designate_backend
}
Hope somebody can give me a hint to run DevStack with designate.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The issue you are having is a version mismatch with the cloud install and the designate plugin. Designate is expecting a newer verison of the oslo_log package.
Check that the "devstack" version you have checked out is on the master branch.
The line:
enable_plugin designate https://opendev.org/openstack/designate
Is pulling the master branch of designate for the devstack plugin.
If you are trying to install on a stable branch version OpenStack, you will need to specify a reference for the devstack plugin as well (example, stable/victoria):
enable_plugin designate https://opendev.org/openstack/designate stable/victoria
As mentioned above, you will also need to enable the designate services:
enable_service designate,designate-central,designate-api,designate-worker,designate-producer,designate-mdns