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Some kernel modules take substantial time to initialize. For example, with mpt2sas RAID driver inspection and deployment randomly fail due to IPA starting before the driver finishes initialization. Add a new hardware manager method initialize_hardware, which gets run on start up before other hardware manager method invocations. The generic implementation is to call udev settle and wait for at least one suitable disk device to appear with the hardcoded timeout of 15 seconds. Also preload the IPMI modules instead of calling modprobe every time the inventory is requested. Change-Id: If7758bb6e3faac7d05451baa3a26adb8ab9953d5 Partial-Bug: #1582797
ironic-python-agent
An agent for controlling and deploying Ironic controlled baremetal nodes.
The ironic-python-agent works with the agent driver in Ironic to provision the node. Starting with ironic-python-agent running on a ramdisk on the unprovisioned node, Ironic makes API calls to ironic-python-agent to provision the machine. This allows for greater control and flexibility of the entire deployment process.
The ironic-python-agent may also be used with the original Ironic pxe drivers as of the Kilo OpenStack release.
Building the IPA deployment ramdisk
For more information see the Image Builder section of the Ironic Python Agent developer guide.
Using IPA with devstack
This is covered in the Deploying Ironic with DevStack section of the Ironic dev-quickstart guide.
Project Resources
Project status, bugs, and blueprints are tracked on Launchpad:
Developer documentation can be found here:
Additional resources are linked from the project wiki page:
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