A recent discussion on Twitter has prompted me to write about the toolset I'm using during development, covering both work-related and personal projects. I will not just provide names and links, but also explain how exactly I use every tool.
Today I'm presenting the miniscript project and discussion the future of the ironic-inspector feature called introspection rules. If the ironic business is of no interest for you, scroll right to Enter MiniScript and stop there.
2020 has been a turbulent year, let us see what it brought to ironic! Here is my recollection of the most important events in the ironic world, as well as new features and other changes.
Auto-discovery of bare metal nodes is a peculiar thing: everyone wants it in theory, but very few end up using it after facing the harsh reality. The truth is, there is not so much information you can discover by powering a machine on and booting a special ramdisk on it. I mean, oh, sure, we can collect literally thousands of various facts and runtime characteristics, but a few critical ones keep evading us. Specifically, BMC credentials. The very few facts ironic needs to be able to manage the machine. Oops.
In all fairness to hardware vendors, it's not very sensible to allow any user, even one with root access, to learn these critical bits of a hardware infrastructure. Not in the cloud era.
Two ideas appeared from numerous heated (and not so much) discussions, one great and one abysmal:
Introspection rules as a way to encode the logic of setting the credentials post-discovery.
Setting IPMI credentials during discovery.
Today we're talking about the latter.
This is a brief summary of bare metal discussions at the OpenInfra Summit & PTG 2019 in Denver.
This blog post introduces the recent features for scheduling bare metal nodes with OpenStack Bare Metal (Ironic). It explains resource classes and traits as applied to bare metal nodes and show-cases the new Allocation API, introduced in the 12.1.0 (Stein) release.
This is an extract from my personal notes and public etherpads from the OpenStack PTG 2017 in Denver. A lot of text ahead!
This part covers contentions topics and future features discussion, as well as a summary of our Queens priorities.
This is an extract from my personal notes and public etherpads from the OpenStack PTG 2017 in Denver. A lot of text ahead!
This part covers Pike recap and retrospective, status updates and CI work.
This is an extract from my personal notes and public etherpads from the OpenStack PTG 2017 in Atlanta. A lot of text ahead!
This is an extract from my personal notes and public etherpads from the OpenStack PTG 2017 in Atlanta. A lot of text ahead!
This is an extract from my personal notes and public etherpads from the OpenStack PTG 2017 in Atlanta. A lot of text ahead!
This is an extract from my personal notes and public etherpads from the OpenStack PTG 2017 in Atlanta. A lot of text ahead!