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Hello Ironic people!

I am coming to you with a question from one of the points we discussed
during Masakari's PTG [1].

When a host fails and Masakari gets notified, there are some cases in
which we would like Masakari to power fence the host before evacuating
its instances to other hosts. That way it is safe to start the instances
from the failed host on another one.

Given that Ironic has the responsability of managing hosts, we would be
interested to know how Masakari should do that, in your view?
We discussed implementing IPMI power on / off directly in masakari, but
maybe an integration where Masakari calls some Ironic API would be better?
Or maybe we should implement it relying on the pyghmi library, or any
other library?

A positive side of relying on Ironic would be that Masakari does not
have to store IPMI information about hosts; however that would create a
dependency between the 2 projects as some deployments might use masakari
without managing their hosts through Ironic.

Any insight is welcome!

Regards,
Nicolas

[1] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/masakari-wallaby-vptg


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Nicolas Parquet
Gandi
nicolas.parquet at gandi.net