[ironic] ARM Support in CI: Call for vendors / contributors / interested parties

Alvaro Soto alsotoes at gmail.com
Tue Jun 13 22:54:30 UTC 2023


Just to bump this email and present you guys Jose Miguel, who it's in
interested in this as well.

Cheers!!!
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On Wed, Apr 5, 2023, 2:24 AM Riccardo Pittau <elfosardo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Alvaro,
>
> We've discussed support for ubuntu arm64 image during the last weekly
> meeting on Monday and agreed to provide it.
> I plan to start working on that this week in the
> ironic-python-agent-builder repository.
>
> Ciao
> Riccardo
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 11:00 PM Alvaro Soto <alsotoes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I saw CentOS 8/9 and Debian images; any plans on working with Ubuntu?
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 2:16 PM Jonathan Rosser <
>> jonathan.rosser at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jay,
>>>
>>> We did not need to make any changes to Ironic.
>>>
>>> At the time we first got things working I don't think there was a
>>> published ARM64 image, but it would have been of great benefit as it was
>>> another component to bootstrap and have uncertainty about if we had done
>>> it properly.
>>>
>>> I've uploaded the published experimental image to our environment and
>>> will have an opportunity to test that soon.
>>>
>>> Jon.
>>>
>>> On 31/03/2023 17:01, Jay Faulkner wrote:
>>> > Thanks for responding, Jonathan!
>>> >
>>> > Did you have to make any downstream changes to Ironic for this to
>>> > work? Are you using our published ARM64 image or using their own?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Jay Faulkner
>>> > Ironic PTL
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 7:56 AM Jonathan Rosser
>>> > <jonathan.rosser at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     I have Ironic working with Supermicro MegaDC / Ampere CPU in a
>>> >     R12SPD-A
>>> >     system board using the ipmi driver.
>>> >
>>> >     Jon.
>>> >
>>> >     On 29/03/2023 19:39, Jay Faulkner wrote:
>>> >     > Hi stackers,
>>> >     >
>>> >     > Ironic has published an experimental Ironic Python Agent image
>>> for
>>> >     > ARM64
>>> >     >
>>> >     (
>>> https://tarballs.opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent-builder/dib/files/
>>> )
>>> >
>>> >     > and discussed promoting this image to supported via CI testing.
>>> >     > However, we have a problem: there are no Ironic developers with
>>> >     easy
>>> >     > access to ARM hardware at the moment, and no Ironic developers
>>> with
>>> >     > free time to commit to improving our support of ARM hardware.
>>> >     >
>>> >     > So we're putting out a call for help:
>>> >     > - If you're a hardware vendor and want your ARM hardware
>>> supported?
>>> >     > Please come talk to the Ironic community about setting up
>>> >     third-party-CI.
>>> >     > - Are you an operator or contributor from a company invested in
>>> ARM
>>> >     > bare metal? Please come join the Ironic community to help us
>>> build
>>> >     > this support.
>>> >     >
>>> >     > Thanks,
>>> >     > Jay Faulkner
>>> >     > Ironic PTL
>>> >     >
>>> >     >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Alvaro Soto
>>
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