Open Stack

On 11/20/2015 12:50 AM, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Vladyslav Drok said on Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:59:41PM +0200:
>> Hi list and Bruno,
>>
>> I’m interested in adding virtual media boot interface for redfish (
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/redfish-virtual-media-boot).
>>
>> It depends on
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/ironic-redfish
>> and a corresponding spec https://review.openstack.org/184653, that
>> proposes
>> adding support for redfish (adding new power and management
>> interfaces) to
>> ironic. It also seems to depend on python-redfish client -
>> https://github.com/devananda/python-redfish.
>
> Very good idea ;-)
>
>> I’d like to know what is the current status of it?
>
> We have made recently some successful tests with both a real HP ProLiant
> server with a redfish compliant iLO FW (2.30+) and the DMTF simulator.
>
> The version working for these tests is at
> https://github.com/bcornec/python-redfish (prototype branch)
> I think we should now move that work into master and make again a pull
> request to Devananda.
>
>> Is there some roadmap of what should be added to
>> python-redfish (or is the one mentioned in spec is still relevant)?
>
> I think this is still relevant.
>
>> Is there a way for others to contribute in it?
>
> Feel free to git clone the repo and propose patches to it ! We would be
> happy to have contributors :-) I've also copied our mailing list to the
> other contributors are aware of this.
>
>> Bruno, do you plan to move it
>> under ironic umbrella, or into pyghmi as people suggested in spec?
>
> That's a difficult question. One one hand, I don't think python-redfish
> should be under the OpenStack umbrella per se. This is a useful python
> module to dialog with servers providing a Redfish interface and this has
> no relationship with OpenStack ... except that it's very useful for
> Ironic ! But could also be used by other projects in the future such as
> Hadoop for node deployment, or my MondoRescue Disaster Recovery project
> e.g. That's also why we have not used OpenStack modules in order to
> avoid to create an artificial dependency that could prevent that module
> tobe used py these other projects.

Using openstack umbrella does not automatically mean the project can't 
be used outside of openstack. It just means you'll be using openstack 
infra for its development, which might be a big plus.

>
> I'm new to the python galaxy myself, but thought that pypy would be the
> right place for it, but I really welcome suggestions here.

You mean PyPI? I don't see how these 2 contradict each other, PyPI is 
just a way to distribute releases.

> I also need to come back to the Redfish spec itself and upate with the
> atest feedback we got, in order to have more up to date content for the
> Mitaka cycle.
>
> Best regards,
> Bruno.