At the Summit, I was amazed by the diversity of companies interested in managing their physical infrastructure with the baremetal driver, and thrilled to hear that some are already using it for new projects. So, I'd like to say "Thanks!" to everyone who came up and shared their ideas and experiences. The first thing on our roadmap is adding PXE boot support to OpenStack Networking. This was already underway and is progressing well; it should simplify the baremetal deployment process substantially by no longer requiring a separate dnsmasq process and thereby allow us to stop performing file injection during the deploy. We have several blueprints up for baremetal right now. Some were drafted before the summit, and some came from discussions there; they're listed at the end of this email and on the wiki. If you'd like to contribute to the project by implementing one of these, please let me know so we can coordinate the work among interested teams. Also, during the design session on Thursday I proposed splitting the baremetal driver out of Nova. That is now written up and awaiting the TC's determination. Regards, Devananda https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/bare-metal-volumes https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/baremetal-force-node https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/baremetal-operations https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/baremetal-compute-takeover https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/improve-baremetal-pxe-deploy https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/selectable-scheduler-filters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20130425/5ccbe0dc/attachment.html>