Provisioning Bare Metal with OpenStack by Devananda van der Veen
- Tried to use the existing NOVA tool (which was used for VM provisioning) but all sorts of limitations
- Hacked it a lot and then gave up
- Created a new project “Ironic” for bare-metal provisioning in May 2013
- Status
- Being working on but lots of devs
- Not in main release yet
- Some push to simplify openstack installation – Triple-O (Openstack on Openstack)
- “Openstack is not a virtualisation layer”
- Security not there yet
- Driver Interface
- 3 classes of interfaces: core, common, vendor
- core: power management, deploy,
- common: console, rescue
- vendor: fireware? boot-from-volume? something-else?
- Architecture
- REST API
- DB
- conductor services
- RPC
- ( the slide makes more sense )
- Many conductors, Many drivers
- If the cluster changes
- take-over hooks
- consistent has updates
- node(s) re-mapped to conductors
- Feature equiv to bare-metal in a few months
- Usable by that point, eventually to replace bare-metal, may require re-deployment
Talk only took 20 minutes. That was quick
