[ironic] Announcing deprecation of the iSCSI deploy interface

Dmitry Tantsur dtantsur at redhat.com
Tue May 4 08:15:44 UTC 2021


Hi all,

We're about to remove the iSCSI deploy interface. Please make sure that you
update your deployments **before** upgrading to Xena.

Please let us know if you have any troubles with migrating to a different
deploy interface.

Dmitry

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:40 AM Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Following up to the previous mailing list [1] and virtual meetup [2]
> discussions, I would like to announce the plans to deprecate the 'iscsi'
> deploy interface.
>
> This is the updated plan discussed on the virtual meetup:
> 1) In the Victoria cycle (i.e. right now):
>   - Fill in the detected feature gaps [3].
>   - Switch off the iscsi deploy interface by default.
>   - Change [agent]image_dowload_source to HTTP by default.
>   - Give the direct deploy a higher priority, so that it's used by default
> unless disabled.
>   - Mark it as deprecated in the code (causing warnings when enabled).
>   - Release a major version of ironic to highlight the defaults changes.
> 2) In the W cycle:
>   - Keep the iscsi deploy deprecated.
>   - Listen to operators' feedback.
> 3) In the X cycle
>   - Remove the iscsi deploy completely from ironic and IPA.
>   - Remove support code from ironic-lib with a major version bump.
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
>
> Dmitry
>
> [1]
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-August/016681.html
> [2] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/Ironic-Victoria-midcycle
> [3] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2008075
>
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