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On 9/17/15 11:31 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Jeff Peeler's message of 2015-09-17 20:07:00 -0700:
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Excerpts from Andrew Bogott's message of 2015-09-16 10:03:48 -0700:
>>>> My users are mostly happy with VMs, but I get occasional requests for
>>>> physical hardware in order to host databases, run performance tests,
>>>> etc.  I'd love to rack a dozen small servers and graft the ironic
>>>> service onto my existing cloud in order to fulfill these sporadic
>>>> needs.  I'm given pause, though, by this doc section:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/deploy/install-guide.html#configure-compute-to-use-the-bare-metal-service
>>>> For example, this:
>>>>
>>>>       compute_driver=nova.virt.ironic.IronicDriver
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That would have me changing nova settings in such a way that would
>>>> clearly make nova /only/ support bare-metal, disabling its
>>>> virtualization facilities.  Does that mean that bare metal is really an
>>>> either/or proposition, or is there some way to make bare metal and virt
>>>> services coexist on a single nova installation?  Or is there an
>>>> in-between option that involves installing a second nova stack on
>>>> different nodes with a different config?
>>>>
>>>> -- Bonus Question --
>>>>
>>>> I'm still using nova-network.  Is anyone using ironic without neutron?
>>>> Or, if not, is that at least theoretically possible?
>>>>
>>> Yes, you need to use host aggregates. You would put the ironic compute
>>> hosts into an aggregate, and all of the other compute hosts into another,
>>> and then have the extra_specs in the flavor set to whichever aggregate
>>> you want the instance to go to.
>>>
>>> This can definitely get a little tricky with the networking if you're
>>> using overlays, since Ironic can't really attach a hardware node to a
>>> software managed L2 network, but you can just make sure users understand
>>> which networks will be available on which flavors and that should work.
>>>
>> The response I got a few days ago was to use host aggregates with the
>> hypervisor_type property for choosing where to start the instance:
>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/073530.html
>>
>> As you can tell from my original post, I'm not an authority on Ironic. But
>> I've seen no mention of Ironic supporting nova networking anywhere.
> Oops I missed the nova-network part.
>
> So no, nova-network is probably not going to work. It's time to migrate
> anyway, nova-network is going away.
People keep telling me that, but my use case (flatdhcp w/floating IPs) 
isn't slated for support in Neutron until N, unless there's been some 
unexpected leap head.

> Worst case you deploy a new region
> with neutron and ironic and migrate your VM workloads to that.
>
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