Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for bringing this up! We discussed this in our weekly ironic meeting [1]. The consensus there seems to be to keep the ideas in IPA (with priority=0). The additional code will be 'negligible' in size so ramdisk won't be bloated due to this. Also, it keeps things simple. Having a separate package means more maintenance overhead and confusion for our users.

Would be good to hear from others, if they don't think this is a good idea. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to Dmitry's RFEs on this :)

--ruby

[1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-ironic/%23openstack-ironic.2021-02-08.log.html#t2021-02-08T15:23:02

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 8:02 AM Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi all,

We have finally implemented in-band deploy steps (w00t!), and people started coming up with ideas. I have two currently:
1) configure arbitrary kernel command line arguments via grub
2) write NetworkManager configuration (for those not using cloud-init)

I'm not sure how I feel about putting these in IPA proper, seems like we may go down a rabbit hole here. But what about a new project (ironic-python-agent-extras?) with a hardware manager providing a collection of potentially useful deploy steps?

Or should we nonetheless just put them in IPA with priority=0?

Opinions welcome.

Dmitry

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