[openstack-dev] [Ironic] Do we need an IntrospectionInterface?

Victor Lowther victor.lowther at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 17:35:11 UTC 2014


+9001 for introspection

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Shivanand Tendulker <stendulker at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1 for  separate interface.
>
> --Shivanand
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Lucas Alvares Gomes <
> lucasagomes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for putting it up Dmitry. I think the idea is fine too, I
>> understand that people may want to use in-band discovery for drivers like
>> iLO or DRAC and having those on a separated interface allow us to composite
>> a driver to do it (which is ur use case 2. ).
>>
>> So, +1.
>>
>> Lucas
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Imre Farkas <ifarkas at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/26/2014 02:20 PM, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> As our state machine and discovery discussion proceeds, I'd like to ask
>>>> your opinion on whether we need an IntrospectionInterface
>>>> (DiscoveryInterface?). Current proposal [1] suggests adding a method for
>>>> initiating a discovery to the ManagementInterface. IMO it's not 100%
>>>> correct, because:
>>>> 1. It's not management. We're not changing anything.
>>>> 2. I'm aware that some folks want to use discoverd-based discovery [2]
>>>> even for DRAC and ILO (e.g. for vendor-specific additions that can't be
>>>> implemented OOB).
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Dmitry.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/100951/
>>>> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/135605/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Dmitry,
>>>
>>> I see the value in using the composability of our driver interfaces, so
>>> I vote for having a separate IntrospectionInterface. Otherwise we wouldn't
>>> allow users to use eg. the DRAC driver with an in-band but more powerful hw
>>> discovery.
>>>
>>> Imre
>>>
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