On 4/20/20 5:33 AM, kevinz wrote:
Hi Cinder,
We are looking forward to the IRONIC boot from Cinder Ceph Volume. I went through the mailist and found the conversation last year, the main gap for the Ironic boot from Cinder volume(Ceph BACKEND) is lacking Cinder Ceph iscsi driver. http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-May/006041.html
So I'm sending to ask the current status for this. We are from Linaro, all our machines are under Ironic and we use Ceph as backend storage. Recently we are looking at the Diskless server boot plan from the Ceph cluster.
The developer working on this was forced to rearrange priorities and there hasn't been anyone available among the active Cinder contributors to pick it up. The current status of the effort is described here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/cinder-ceph-iscsi-driver If you are interested in helping to drive this effort, feel free to suggest it as a topic for the Victoria virtual PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/cinder-victoria-ptg-planning There are several moving parts to this implementation, so it's probably worth assessing the current state of each to see how far we are from an implementation. And if you are a software developer, or can influence some software developers, we would of course welcome development resources directed toward this effort.
Any info or update or advice, I really appreciate it. Look forward to hearing from you.