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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yes StarlingX does support Ironic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Some quick notes on its usage:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">It is currently only supported on StarlingX Standard Configurations<o:p></o:p></span>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">i.e. NOT on All-In-One Simplex or Duplex<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">An additional interface, of network-type ‘control’, must be added to the two Controllers
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">These interfaces are connected to the ‘ironic provisioning tenant network’,
<o:p></o:p></span>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">... used for network-booting the ironic nodes<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">These interfaces are configured with an IP Address from the subnet of the ‘ironic provisioning network’,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Typically the ironic provisioning network is on a flat provider network ... but does not have to be<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">At least one compute node must also be attached to the ‘ironic provisioning network’<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The ironic service is optional in StarlingX Deployments<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Before enabling it you must first set a number of ironic ‘service parameters’<br>
i.e.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">system service-parameter-add ironic neutron provisioning_network=<IRONIC_PROVISIONING_NET_UUID><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">system service-parameter-add ironic pxe tftp_server=<TFTP_SERVER_IP><o:p></o:p></span>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">NOTE: this is the floating IP of the Ironic Conductor / TFTP Server on the ironic provisioning network<o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">system service-parameter-add ironic pxe netmask=24<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">system service-parameter-add ironic pxe controller_0_if=<CONTROLLER_0_INTERFACE><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">system service-parameter-add ironic pxe controller_1_if=<CONTROLLER_1_INTERFACE><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">and then<o:p></o:p></span></i></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">system service-enable ironic<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">... after that, create ironic nodes and boot Baremetal Instances on those nodes as described in the Ironic Documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Greg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">"Hu, Yong" <yong.hu@intel.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 8:48 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io" <starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Starlingx-discuss] [Ironic] deploy bare metal by Ironic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">One customer asked how StarlingX supports bare metal support by Ironic.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And they mentioned Titanium Cloud used to support it well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Anyone has the experience to deploy bare metal system by Ironic on StarlingX?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Suggests and feedbacks are much appreciated!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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