[ironic] A new project for useful deploy steps?

Ruby Loo opensrloo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 23:03:06 UTC 2021


If it is something small, wouldn't it still require a short description in
a story. With '[RFE]' or something like that in the title? (Or have I
totally forgotten how we do things).

--ruby

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 6:00 PM Ruby Loo <opensrloo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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