[VICTORIA][IRONIC] - Can inspect but not deploy

Pierre Riteau pierre at stackhpc.com
Mon Jun 13 11:14:03 UTC 2022


Hi Gaël,

I am not talking about the physical network interface, but about the
`network_interface` field on on your Ironic nodes:
https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/multitenancy.html#network-interfaces

Pierre

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 12:41, Gaël THEROND <gael.therond at bitswalk.com>
wrote:

> Hi pierre,
>
> I’m using a dedicated interface but this interface is the same for all
> ironic networks inspection/provisioning/cleaning.
>
> This interface works fine for inspection, my only issue is the pxe_filter
> that the ironic inspector process allow during inspection correctly but
> then tag as disallowed again at the end of the inspection, shouldn’t the
> deploy process allow the Mac again before booting the node?
>
> I can correctly see the conductor instruct the node to boot up using pxe
> from the kvm console but the BootP process doesn’t load the IPA
> kernel/initramfs as the dnsmasq pxe discard the request (because of the mac
> being still tagged as «,ignore » within the hostdir file).
>
> I’m a bit disappointed by this behavior.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Le lun. 13 juin 2022 à 11:41, Pierre Riteau <pierre at stackhpc.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hello Gaël,
>>
>> Which network_interface are you using for your nodes? Is your
>> provisioning network different from the inspection network?
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 10:36, Gaël THEROND <gael.therond at bitswalk.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone!
>>>
>>> I'm dealing with a strange issue today, we deployed IRONIC on a VICTORIA
>>> platform, we activated the dnsmasq pxe filtering option at the inspector
>>> level, it works great as only IRONIC listed hosts are then served by the
>>> dnsmasq DHCP as those hosts are allowed using the dhcp hosts dir.
>>>
>>> BUT, I'm having a weird issue now.
>>>
>>> All my nodes are able to get an IP from the DHCP at the INSPECTION step,
>>> however, as soon as the inspection step is finished, the mac related file
>>> is once again filled with "<mac>,ignore" which prohibits further operations.
>>>
>>> This means as soon as I put that node as available and try to deploy an
>>> "instance" on it (provision the host), it doesn't work as dnsmasq reject
>>> the host boot DHCP requests.
>>>
>>> So, is there a way to instruct the ironic-conductor to edit/allow the
>>> host the way the inspector is able to manipulate this file?
>>>
>>> Did I missed something?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>
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