[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Next step of Bare-Metal Provisioning

Devananda van der Veen devananda.vdv at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 06:05:29 UTC 2012


Michael,

There's already a group of us developing (b) openstack-on-openstack -- our
goal is to use the baremetal driver to deploy and scale up/down an
openstack cloud, with something like heat for orchestration. We hang out in
#tripleo.

Cheers,
--
Devananda
On Dec 14, 2012 8:23 AM, "Michael DeHaan (midehaan)" <midehaan at cisco.com>
wrote:

> Late to this discussion as I've just recently begun working on OpenStack,
> but some sort of integrated bare metal support is interesting to me.  I
> think there's two useful things here:
>
> (A) bare metal compute management (i.e. Lab controller temporary checkout
> style, Red Hat's Beaker, MAAS)
>
> (B) integration of mechanisms to make it easier to expand cloud
> infrastructure itself -- to be able to define profiles for the actual
> compute/storage/etc nodes and quickly add and configure more of them.
>
> You probably do (A) first and then figure out how to extend it to (B).
>
> I'd really like to see some sort of adapter layer where you could have
> plugins to various deployment systems like Cobbler, Foreman, Razor,
> commercial offerings, etc.  If those interfaces existed I could see me
> writing a Cobbler one.
>
> Interested if other people are interested in (B).
>
> --Michael
>
> On 12/13/12 11:47 PM, "Osamu Habuka" <xiu.yushen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Ken,
> >
> >Thank you for your response.
> >
> >"ofc_utils.py" is utilities of the OpenFlow Controller (is made by NTT
> >Data)
> >to make environments of network isolation.
> >
> >> I will appreciate if you give us feedbacks.
> >
> >OK, I think I would like to provide you some feedbacks after I check
> >your listed features.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Osamu
> >
> >2012/12/10 Ken Igarashi <50barca at gmail.com>:
> >> Hi Osama and Guan,
> >>
> >> We are happy to work with your team.
> >>
> >> I glanced at "dodai" and I could see a lot of similarities to our
> >>project.
> >> There is one thing I could not understand.
> >> What is the role of "ofc_utils.py"?
> >>
> >> I listed all the features we want to add in the future.
> >> https://etherpad.openstack.org/GrizzlyBareMetalCloud
> >>
> >> I will appreciate if you give us feedbacks.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ken
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Osamu Habuka <xiu.yushen at gmail.com>
> >>wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Ken, Devananda and all,
> >>>
> >>> Last year, I and Guan and yoko made dodai-compute as
> >>> baremetal provisioning tool that were created with
> >>> use of diablo.
> >>> https://github.com/nii-cloud/dodai-compute
> >>>
> >>> And also, we think we would like to join to your project
> >>> because we have an interest in your baremetal project.
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> Osamu
> >>
> >>
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