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On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:59 AM Mark Goddard <mark at stackhpc.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the most recent Ironic meeting we discussed [1] tenks, and the
> possibility of adding the project under Ironic governance. We agreed to
> move the discussion to the mailing list. I'll introduce the project here
> and give everyone a chance to ask questions. If things appear to move in
> the right direction, I'll propose a vote for inclusion under Ironic's
> governance.
>
> Tenks is a project for managing 'virtual bare metal clusters'. It aims to
> be a drop-in replacement for the various scripts and templates that exist
> in the Ironic devstack plugin for creating VMs to act as bare metal nodes
> in development and test environments. Similar code exists in Bifrost and
> TripleO, and probably other places too. By focusing on one project, we can
> ensure that it works well, and provides all the features necessary as
> support for bare metal in the cloud evolves.
>
> That's tenks the concept. Tenks in reality today is a working version 1.0,
> written in Ansible, built by Will Miller (w-miller) during his summer
> placement. Will has returned to his studies, and Will Szumski (jovial) has
> picked it up. You don't have to be called Will to work on Tenks, but it
> helps.
>
> There are various resources available for anyone wishing to find out more:
>
> * Ironic spec review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/579583
> * Documentation: https://tenks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> * Source code: https://github.com/stackhpc/tenks
> * Blog: https://stackhpc.com/tenks.html
> * IRC: mgoddard or jovial in #openstack-ironic
>
> What does everyone think? Is this something that the ironic community
> could or should take ownership of?
>

Makes sense to me, but we should also have an explicit goal of using tenks
to kill our devstack code (and the other things mentioned).

Consider me +2 on the spec but leaving time for additional discussion. :)

Thanks Mark!

// jim


>
> [1]
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/ironic/2018/ironic.2018-10-01-15.00.log.html#l-170
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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