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On 12/21/2018 01:40 AM, Zhipeng Huang wrote:
> ICYMI: 
> https://blog.ipspace.net/2018/12/zero-touch-provisioning-with-patrick_20.html 

 From that article:

"ZTP can be used internally connecting to an internal provisioning 
server, and it can be used externally connecting to an external 
provisioning server. Some commercial products use ZTP in connection with 
a vendor-controlled cloud-based provisioning server."

Funny, that's almost exactly what I said in my original response on this 
thread :)

> Shall we collect items of OCP/OpenStack components that could composite 
> a ZTP stack somewhere ?

Sure, just make sure we're being explicit about the things we're 
discussing. If you want to focus exclusively on *network device* 
provisioning, that's fine, but that should be explicitly stated.

Network device provisioning is an important but ultimately tiny part of 
infrastructure provisioning. Unfortunately, most of the telco and 
network OEM community (understandably) only refer to network device 
provisioning when they talk about "ZTP".

Also, the less this can be pidgeon-holed into the amorphous "edge" 
category, the better, IMHO ;)

Best,
-jay

> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 10:51 PM Curtis <serverascode at gmail.com 
> <mailto:serverascode at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:35 AM Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On 12/20/2018 09:33 AM, Curtis wrote:
>          > No, it doesn't do inventory management. It's like a small
>         base OS for
>          > network switches, they come with it, boot up into it, and you
>         can use it
>          > to install other OSes. At least that's how it's used with the
>         whitebox
>          > switches I have. With ONIE it'd install the OS, then the
>         initial OS
>          > could register with some kind of inventory system.
> 
>         What about for non-network devices -- i.e. general compute
>         hardware?
>         After all, edge is more than just the network switches :)
> 
> 
>     I'm not sure; that's a good question. I was just using it as an
>     example of a piece of ZTP related technology that has been adopted
>     by vendors who build physical devices and include them by default,
>     though of course, only a subset of network switches. :)
> 
>     If ONIE was a good example, and it could not be used for general
>     compute hardware, then perhaps something like it could be built
>     using lessons learned by ONIE. I dunno. :)
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Curits
> 
> 
>         Best,
>         -jay
> 
> 
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