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On 23 Jan 2014 13:45, "Devananda van der Veen" <<a href="mailto:devananda.vdv@gmail.com">devananda.vdv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> So, a conversation came again up today around whether or not Ironic will, in the future, support operations on groups of nodes. Some folks have expressed a desire for Ironic to expose operations on groups of nodes; others want Ironic to host the hardware-grouping data so that eg. Heat and Tuskar can make more intelligent group-aware decisions or represent the groups in a UI. Neither of these have an implementation in Ironic today... and we still need to implement a host of other things before we start on this. FWIW, this discussion is meant to stimulate thinking ahead to things we might address in Juno, and aligning development along the way.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">So I'm pretty thoroughly against this at this point in time. The rest of OpenStack has a single item at a time coding style ... Booting multiple instances is quickly transformed into n single instance boots. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I think clear identification of services we need can take care of sharing workloads within ironic effectively. E.g. teach glance to multicast images and the story for doing many identical deploys at once becomes super simple.<br>
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