[openstack-dev] [ironic] Dropping legacy bash ramdisk support

Dmitry Tantsur dtantsur at redhat.com
Mon May 23 10:24:22 UTC 2016


On 05/11/2016 02:54 PM, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> As you probably know, the old bash-based ramdisks for ironic [1] and
> ironic-inspector [2] are deprecated for some long time. The time has
> come: we are removing their support from our code base in the near
> future.
>
> Here is the draft plan:
>
> 1. Remove the gate-tempest-dsvm-ironic-pxe_ssh-dib job from
>    diskimage-builder.
>
> 2. Remove the gate-tempest-dsvm-ironic-pxe_ssh job from Ironic master
>    only.

FYI: these 2 changes are in effect now. I've forgot to drop the job from 
dib-utils, the patch is on its way.

>
> 3. Remove support for the old ramdisk from ironic-inspector and its
>    devstack plugin. The last versions still supporting the old ramdisk will
>    be 3.3.0 (to be released soon), Mitaka and older.
>
> 4. Remove support for the old ramdisk from ironic and its devstack
>    plugin. The last version still supporting the old ramdisk will be
>    Mitaka.
>
> The DIB elements themselves won't be removed per DIB policy. But they
> will be completely unsupported for the next releases (starting with N2).
>
> [1] https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder/tree/master/elements/deploy-ironic
> [2] https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder/tree/master/elements/ironic-discoverd-ramdisk
>
> // jim
>
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