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On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 19:52, Thomas Wakefield <dwakefi2 at gmu.edu> wrote:
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> We are new to using OpenStack and are testing out Kolla-ansible with hopes of using Ironic as a deployment tool.  Our issue is we can’t use the openstack baremetal command, it’s not found after deployment.  Our current test environment is built using Train on CentOS 7.  And all other basic OpenStack functionality seems to be working with our Kolla install (nova, glance, horizon, etc).
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> We followed these docs, https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/train/reference/bare-metal/ironic-guide.html , but when we get to running any “openstack baremetal” commands we don’t seem to have the baremetal commands available in openstack.
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> Globals.yml lines that should be relavent:
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> enable_horizon_ironic: "{{ enable_ironic | bool }}"
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> enable_ironic: "yes"
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> enable_ironic_ipxe: "yes"
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> enable_ironic_neutron_agent: "{{ enable_neutron | bool and enable_ironic | bool }}"
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> enable_ironic_pxe_uefi: "no"
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> #enable_iscsid: "{{ (enable_cinder | bool and enable_cinder_backend_iscsi | bool) or enable_ironic | bool }}"
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> ironic_dnsmasq_interface: "em1"
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> # The following value must be set when enabling ironic,
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> ironic_dnsmasq_dhcp_range: "192.168.2.230,192.168.2.239"
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> ironic_dnsmasq_boot_file: "pxelinux.0"
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> ironic_cleaning_network: "demo-net"
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> Ironic is listed as an installed service, but you can see the baremetal commands are not found:
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> root at orc-os5:~## openstack service list
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> | ID                               | Name             | Type                    |
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> | 0e5119acbf384714ab11520fadce36bb | nova_legacy      | compute_legacy          |
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> | 2ed83015047249f38b782901e03bcfc1 | ironic-inspector | baremetal-introspection |
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> | 5d7aabf15bdc415387fac54fa1ca21df | ironic           | baremetal               |
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> | 6d05cdce019347e9940389abed959ffb | neutron          | network                 |
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> | 7d9485969e504b2e90273af75e9b1713 | cinderv3         | volumev3                |
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> | a11dc04e83ed4d9ba65474b9de947d1b | keystone         | identity                |
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> | ad0c2db47b414b34b86a5f6a5aca597c | glance           | image                   |
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> | dcbbc90813714c989b82bece1c0d9d9f | nova             | compute                 |
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> | de0ee6b55486495296516e07d2e9e97c | heat             | orchestration           |
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> | df605d671d88496d91530fbc01573589 | cinderv2         | volumev2                |
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> | e211294ca78a418ea34d9c29d86b05f1 | placement        | placement               |
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> | f62ba90bc0b94cb9b3d573605f800a1f | heat-cfn         | cloudformation          |
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> root at orc-os5:~## openstack baremetal
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> openstack: 'baremetal' is not an openstack command. See 'openstack --help'.
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> Did you mean one of these?
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>   credential create
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>   credential delete
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>   credential list
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>   credential set
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>   credential show
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> Is there anything else that needs configured to activate ironic?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Tom

Hi Thomas, what are you planning to use the machines deployed by
Ironic for? If they are going to be used as hypervisors or for
storage, you might want to consider using Kayobe [1].

[1] https://docs.openstack.org/kayobe/latest/

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