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

Jay Faulkner jay at gr-oss.io
Wed Jun 14 16:58:14 UTC 2023


This is exciting! Are you all at the OpenStack Summit? If so I'd love to
see you at the PTG.

If not, let's figure out a path forward :) remotely.

Thanks,
Jay Faulkner
Ironic PTL

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 4:05 PM Alvaro Soto <alsotoes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to bump this email and present you guys Jose Miguel, who it's in
> interested in this as well.
>
> Cheers!!!
> ---
> Alvaro Soto.
>
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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
>>>
>>> *Note: My work hours may not be your work hours. Please do not feel the
>>> need to respond during a time that is not convenient for you.*
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
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>>> small people talk... about other people.
>>>
>>
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