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Hi Etsuji,


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Etsuji Nakai <enakai at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Ken, Devananda and all,
>
I'm Etsuji. I've recently joined the dodai-compute team, and
> would like to contribute to the baremetal project, too.
> I'm now working closely with Osamu, by the way:
>
>
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/003790.html


>
> Let me explain some background of my interest in the baremetal
> project and plan of the contribution.
>
> dodai-compute has been developed for a specific usecase in NII's
> private cloud (National Institute of Informatics Japan.) Because
> of that, it's not suitable for general usecases and is unlikely
> to be merged in the upstream. So dodai-compute team is now
> considering to adopt the upstream baremetal feature in NII as an
> alternative of dodai-compute. For that purpose, we'd like to add
> some new features which are required for NII's usecase and also
> beneficial to other baremetal users.
>

Great! I've only heard a bit about dodai and what you guys are doing at
NII, but I'm excited to have more teams contributing to the upstream
baremetal driver :)


>
> We're now mainly considering the following items:
>
> 1) Scheduler extension for grouping of baremetal servers.
> - Allowing users to specify baremetal servers to be used.
>

This is very important to me as well. I have a pretty clear idea of how to
do it -- probably not that hard -- but I haven't written my plans down yet.
I'll draft something today.


>
> 2) Multiple OS provisioning method.
> - Allowing multiple types of OS images such as:
>    dd-image (NTTdocomo-openstack style)
>    tar ball (dodai-compute style)
>    Kickstart installation (new feature)
>

We are working on improving the current method (dd image) so that it
performs and scales better. I think the same approach, and much of the same
code, could be used with tarballs, and I would welcome that.


>
> 3) Baremetal Quantum plugin for VLAN inter-connection.
> - Allowing inter-connection to existing VLAN networks.
> - Allowing NIC-bonding configuration.
>

Yes! There are several other quantum integration bits that Robert Collins
is working on, such as having quantum manage the TFTP configuration so that
baremetal doesn't need to run a separate dhcp server.


>
> We internally call our plan "dodai-compute2.0". It doesn't mean
> to make a new branch, but to add the above features to the
> upstream baremetal. Here's a draft of the presentation of the plan.
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-aLYh1CAM_qR1VxSFViM1hPTGM/edit?usp=sharing
>


> I'm really glad if you're interested in it, too, and happy to
> explain/discuss more details if necessary.
>

Are you on irc.freenode.net? Most of the developers of nova (and the
baremetal driver) hang out in #openstack-dev, and a lot of us are in
#tripleo now too.

Best regards,
Devananda
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