Hello Community, I'm working to make Ironic be aware about Neutron port state changes [0]. The issue consists of two parts: - Neutron ports for baremetal instances remain in DOWN state [1]. The issue occurs because there is no mechanism driver that binds ports. To solve it we need to create port with vnic_type='baremetal' in Nova [2], and bind in Neutron. New mechanism driver that supports baremetal vnic_type is needed [3]. - Sync Neutron events with Ironic. According to Neutron architecture [4] mechanism drivers work synchronously. When the port is bound by ml2 mechanism driver it becomes ACTIVE. While updating dhcp information Neutron uses dhcp agent, which is asynchronous call. I'm confused here, since ACTIVE port status doesn't mean that it operates (dhcp agent may fail to setup port). The issue was solved by [5]. So starting from [5] when ML2 uses new port status update flow, port update is always asynchronous operation. And the most efficient way is to implement callback mechanism between Neutron and Ironic is like it's done for Neutron/Nova. Neutron/Nova/Ironic teams let me know your thoughts on this. Reference: [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1304673 [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1599836 [2] https://review.openstack.org/339143 [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/339129/ [4] https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/Article-Images/B04751_01.png [5] https://github.com/openstack/neutron/commit/b672c26cb42ad3d9a17ed049b506b5622601e891 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20160712/42ec64d6/attachment.html>
