[openstack-dev] [ironic] [inspector] Auto discovery extension for Ironic Inspector

Bruno Cornec Bruno.Cornec at hp.com
Fri Nov 6 16:25:37 UTC 2015


Hello,

Pavlo Shchelokovskyy said on Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 09:41:51PM +0000:
>For auto-setting driver options on enrollment, I would vote for option 2
>with default being fake driver + optional CMDB integration. This would ease
>managing a homogeneous pool of BMs, but still (using fake driver or data
>from CMDB) work reasonably well in heterogeneous case.
>
>As for setting a random password, CMDB integration is crucial IMO. Large
>deployments usually have some sort of it already, and it must serve as a
>single source of truth for the deployment. So if inspector is changing the
>ipmi password, it should not only notify/update Ironic's knowledge on that
>node, but also notify/update the CMDB on that change - at least there must
>be a possibility (a ready-to-use plug point) to do that before we roll out
>such feature.

wrt interaction with CMDB, we have investigating around some ideas tha
we have gathered at https://github.com/uggla/alexandria/wiki

Some code has been written to try to model some of these aspects, but
having more contributors and patches to enhance that integration would
be great ! Similarly available at https://github.com/uggla/alexandria

We had planned to talk about these ideas at the previous OpenStack
summit but didn't get enough votes it seems. So now aiming at preenting
to the next one ;-)

HTH,
Bruno.
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