[ironic] A new project for useful deploy steps?

Ruby Loo opensrloo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 23:00:05 UTC 2021


So true. Although...

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 11:09 AM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I concur. The only thing with RFE's and patch approvals is I think we
> should remember that we want it to be easy. So processes like RFEs may
> not be helpful to a "oh, this tiny little thing makes a lot of sense"
> sort of things, since it quickly becomes a situation where you spend
> more time on the RFE than the patch itself.
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:43 AM Ruby Loo <opensrloo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this up! We discussed this in our weekly ironic
> meeting [1]. The consensus there seems to be to keep the ideas in IPA (with
> priority=0). The additional code will be 'negligible' in size so ramdisk
> won't be bloated due to this. Also, it keeps things simple. Having a
> separate package means more maintenance overhead and confusion for our
> users.
> >
> > Would be good to hear from others, if they don't think this is a good
> idea. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to Dmitry's RFEs on this :)
> >
> > --ruby
> >
> > [1]
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-ironic/%23openstack-ironic.2021-02-08.log.html#t2021-02-08T15:23:02
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 8:02 AM Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We have finally implemented in-band deploy steps (w00t!), and people
> started coming up with ideas. I have two currently:
> >> 1) configure arbitrary kernel command line arguments via grub
> >> 2) write NetworkManager configuration (for those not using cloud-init)
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how I feel about putting these in IPA proper, seems like
> we may go down a rabbit hole here. But what about a new project
> (ironic-python-agent-extras?) with a hardware manager providing a
> collection of potentially useful deploy steps?
> >>
> >> Or should we nonetheless just put them in IPA with priority=0?
> >>
> >> Opinions welcome.
> >>
> >> Dmitry
> >>
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