Thanks Alvaro, I'll look forward to meeting you and Luis!

In addition to all the activity on the list, Ironic also had a contributor come and volunteer to help setup VM-based ARM CI on IRC.

We still are looking for contributors, but now there's a much stronger emphasis on getting third party CI.

Thank you to the community for responding positively for this call to help!

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Jay Faulkner
Ironic PTL

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 4:39 PM Alvaro Soto <alsotoes@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey ironic team,
I'm adding Luis Felipe who is R&D manager at IDTOLU and it's interested in helping with this project \o/
I hope it helps!

Cheers!

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 5:39 AM Arne Wiebalck <Arne.Wiebalck@cern.ch> wrote:
Jay,

We have our ARM servers fully managed by Ironic as well (via the Redfish driver),
including auto-discovery, benchmarking, burn-in and provisioning. They are set
up as hypervisors and we provision ARM VMs on them to our users.

We do not use the upstream IPA image, but build our own with IPAB (on an ARM
based runner).

Cheers,
 Arne

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From: Jay Faulkner <jay@gr-oss.io>
Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2023 20:39
To: OpenStack Discuss
Subject: [ironic] ARM Support in CI: Call for vendors / contributors / interested parties

Hi stackers,

Ironic has published an experimental Ironic Python Agent image for ARM64 (https://tarballs.opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent-builder/dib/files/) and discussed promoting this image to supported via CI testing. However, we have a problem: there are no Ironic developers with easy access to ARM hardware at the moment, and no Ironic developers with free time to commit to improving our support of ARM hardware.

So we're putting out a call for help:
- If you're a hardware vendor and want your ARM hardware supported? Please come talk to the Ironic community about setting up third-party-CI.
- Are you an operator or contributor from a company invested in ARM bare metal? Please come join the Ironic community to help us build this support.

Thanks,
Jay Faulkner
Ironic PTL





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Alvaro Soto 

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