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On 10/2/18 9:37 AM, Mark Goddard wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 14:03, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 10/02/2018 08:58 AM, Mark Goddard wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > In the most recent Ironic meeting we discussed [1] tenks, and the
>      > possibility of adding the project under Ironic governance. We
>     agreed to
>      > move the discussion to the mailing list. I'll introduce the
>     project here
>      > and give everyone a chance to ask questions. If things appear to
>     move in
>      > the right direction, I'll propose a vote for inclusion under
>     Ironic's
>      > governance.
>      >
>      > Tenks is a project for managing 'virtual bare metal clusters'. It
>     aims
>      > to be a drop-in replacement for the various scripts and templates
>     that
>      > exist in the Ironic devstack plugin for creating VMs to act as bare
>      > metal nodes in development and test environments. Similar code
>     exists in
>      > Bifrost and TripleO, and probably other places too. By focusing
>     on one
>      > project, we can ensure that it works well, and provides all the
>     features
>      > necessary as support for bare metal in the cloud evolves.
>      >
>      > That's tenks the concept. Tenks in reality today is a working
>     version
>      > 1.0, written in Ansible, built by Will Miller (w-miller) during his
>      > summer placement. Will has returned to his studies, and Will Szumski
>      > (jovial) has picked it up. You don't have to be called Will to
>     work on
>      > Tenks, but it helps.
>      >
>      > There are various resources available for anyone wishing to find
>     out more:
>      >
>      > * Ironic spec review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/579583
>      > * Documentation: https://tenks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>      > * Source code: https://github.com/stackhpc/tenks
>      > * Blog: https://stackhpc.com/tenks.html
>      > * IRC: mgoddard or jovial in #openstack-ironic
>      >
>      > What does everyone think? Is this something that the ironic
>     community
>      > could or should take ownership of?
> 
>     How does Tenks relate to OVB?
> 
>     https://openstack-virtual-baremetal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
> 
> 
> Good question. As far as I'm aware, OVB is a tool for using an OpenStack 
> cloud to host the virtual bare metal nodes, and is typically used for 
> testing TripleO. Tenks does not rule out supporting this use case in 
> future, but currently operates more like the Ironic devstack plugin, 
> using libvirt/KVM/QEMU as the virtualisation provider.

Yeah, sounds like this is more a replacement for the kvm virtual 
environment setup in tripleo-quickstart. I'm adding the tripleo tag for 
their attention.