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.
>
>