On Tue, 2023-10-31 at 15:22 -0700, Jay Faulkner wrote:
Hi all,
Just announcing that at the vPTG, the Ironic core team came to a consensus about the future of the metalsmith project. It was originally created to improve the user experience around provisioning Ironic nodes when using Ironic's API directly. At this, it was mostly successful and has completed this task.
It's our intention to work on the Ironic API and python-ironicclient to provide a similarly simple deployment user experience, even for users without nova, integrating lessons learned from the metalsmith project. To this end; we are letting the overall community know we no longer expect to add additional functionality to metalsmith. We will ensure it remains maintained and well-tested until it's functionality has been duplicated, but all new work in this area will be directed at the primary Ironic API and Ironic client projects.
Just to satisfy my own personal curiosity, does this suggest the Ironic core team plans to maintain both the CLI and library binding aspects of python- ironicclient long-term? I know that Nova and Neutron (and possibly more) have deprecated the former (in favour of OSC) and I think there's an ambition to deprecate the latter also (in favour of SDK), but obviously that doesn't work for a project that can exist outside of a full-fledged OpenStack deployment like Ironic (and Cinder, fwiw) can. I'm curious what the long-term vision for these projects is wrt standalone configurations. On a related note, how _does_ SDK work with standalone Ironic currently? I've never used that Ironic configuration, but I assume there's no Keystone and in- turn no service catalogue, which likely means SDK simply doesn't work? Cheers, Stephen
To this end, and as discussed at the PTG, I've proposed a change to the Metalsmith readme, notifying users of this state. https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/metalsmith/+/899761 This change, or this mailing list post, is a great place to comment if you have any comments on this decision.
Thanks, Jay Faulkner Ironic PTL