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Thanks for putting that info together!

I'm not sure exactly what order things need to happen in, but Jay (JayF) is
working on the infra bits of getting a repository and CI, and Jim (jroll)
is getting the Pecan+WSME part done. Hopefully we'll have it all ready by
Monday.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Vladimir Kozhukalov <
vkozhukalov at mirantis.com> wrote:

> Russell,
>
> Great to hear you are going to move towards Pecan+WSME. Yesterday I had a
> look at teeth projects. Next few days I am going to start contributing.
> First of all, I think, we need to arrange all that stuff about pluggable
> architecture. I've created a wiki page about Ironic python agent
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic-python-agent.
>
> And the question about contributing. Have you managed to send pull request
> to openstack-infra in order to move this project into
> github.com/stackforge? Or we are supposed to arrange everything (werkzeug
> -> Pecan/WSME, architectural questions) before we move this agent to
> stackforge?
>
>
>
>
>
> Vladimir Kozhukalov
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Russell Haering <russellhaering at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Vladmir,
>>
>> Hey, I'm on the team working on this agent, let me offer a little
>> history. We were working on a system of our own for managing bare metal
>> gear which we were calling "Teeth". The project was mostly composed of:
>>
>> 1. teeth-agent: an on-host provisioning agent
>> 2. teeth-overlord: a centralized automation mechanism
>>
>> Plus a few other libraries (including teeth-rest, which contains some
>> common code we factored out of the agent/overlord).
>>
>> A few weeks back we decided to shift our focus to using Ironic. At this
>> point we have effectively abandoned teeth-overlord, and are instead
>> focusing on upstream Ironic development, continued agent development and
>> building an Ironic driver capable of talking to our agent.
>>
>> Over the last few days we've been removing non-OS-approved dependencies
>> from our agent: I think teeth-rest (and werkzeug, which it depends on) will
>> be the last to go when we replace it with Pecan+WSME sometime in the next
>> few days.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Russell
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Vladimir Kozhukalov <
>> vkozhukalov at mirantis.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I understand, there are 4 projects which are connected with
>>> this topic. Another two projects which were not mentioned by Devananda are
>>> https://github.com/rackerlabs/teeth-rest
>>> https://github.com/rackerlabs/teeth-overlord
>>>
>>> Vladimir Kozhukalov
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Devananda van der Veen <
>>> devananda.vdv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> The Ironic team has been discussing the need for a "deploy agent" since
>>>> well before the last summit -- we even laid out a few blueprints along
>>>> those lines. That work was deferred  and we have been using the same deploy
>>>> ramdisk that nova-baremetal used, and we will continue to use that ramdisk
>>>> for the PXE driver in the Icehouse release.
>>>>
>>>> That being the case, at the sprint this week, a team from Rackspace
>>>> shared work they have been doing to create a more featureful hardware agent
>>>> and an Ironic driver which utilizes that agent. Early drafts of that work
>>>> can be found here:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/rackerlabs/teeth-agent
>>>> https://github.com/rackerlabs/ironic-teeth-driver
>>>>
>>>> I've updated the original blueprint and assigned it to Josh. For
>>>> reference:
>>>>
>>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/utility-ramdisk
>>>>
>>>> I believe this agent falls within the scope of the baremetal
>>>> provisioning program, and welcome their contributions and collaboration on
>>>> this. To that effect, I have suggested that the code be moved to a new
>>>> OpenStack project named "openstack/ironic-python-agent". This would follow
>>>> an independent release cycle, and reuse some components of tripleo
>>>> (os-*-config). To keep the collaborative momentup up, I would like this
>>>> work to be done now (after all, it's not part of the Ironic repo or
>>>> release). The new driver which will interface with that agent will need to
>>>> stay on github -- or in a gerrit feature branch -- until Juno opens, at
>>>> which point it should be proposed to Ironic.
>>>>
>>>> The agent architecture we discussed is roughly:
>>>> - a pluggable JSON transport layer by which the Ironic driver will pass
>>>> information to the ramdisk. Their initial implementation is a REST API.
>>>> - a collection of hardware-specific utilities (python modules, bash
>>>> scripts, what ever) which take JSON as input and perform specific actions
>>>> (whether gathering data about the hardware or applying changes to it).
>>>> - and an agent which routes the incoming JSON to the appropriate
>>>> utility, and routes the response back via the transport layer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Devananda
>>>>
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