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Echoing and enhancing what Alvaro said, kolla-ansible has great docs on
deploying Bifrost+Ironic:
https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/latest/reference/deployment-and-bootstrapping/bifrost.html
.

I don't know what you class as "complex YAML or JSON"; bifrost does require
an inventory file with BMC information and credentials at a minimum.

Bifrost is kinda a hidden gem in OpenStack; give it a shot. If there's a
specific reason it doesn't fit your use case, or you encounter a problem if
you choose to try it, please close the loop and let us know!

Thanks! Good luck with your project.

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Jay Faulkner
Ironic PTL
OpenStack TC Member

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 4:08 PM Frank Smith <fsmith at techwiki.info> wrote:

> Hey all, quick question:
>
> Previously I would use Fuel to deploy Openstack. It was a good tool, as it
> built a deployment server where I would see new, un-provisioned servers
> show up in the list, and I could choose the roles, including stacking
> roles, onto the servers and then provision the whole cluster. There were no
> complex yaml or JSON files to deal with and it would retry the deployment
> on an error state. When done, I had a nice OpenStack cluster, a Ceph
> backend, and life was good.
>
> Now it seems Fuel has been retired. What is comparable to the abilities of
> Fuel today? What are people using for such deployments now? I get
> that devstack, microstack and packstack are great for all-in-one installs,
> but Fuel was great for deploying a whole rack of servers from bare metal. I
> am not asking for any free training here, but instead asking for info on a
> similar product, if there is one, so I can learn that and be OpenStack
> productive once more.
>
> Thank you for any help,
> --Francis Smith
>
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