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Or at least try to. Some deployments just don't use root device hints, and this is okay. However, other deployments need root device hints, and with fast track mode in ramdisks, we created a situation where the node cache could be updated by a human or software between the time the agent was started, and the deployment was requested. As a result, the agent has been updated to check if we have a hint and if we don't, update the cache from the node lookup endpoint. This is not needed when the inband deploy steps are executed, as the process of updating the steps does force the node cache to be updated. Change-Id: I27201319f31cdc01605a3c5ae9ef4b4218e4a3f6 Story: 2008039 Task: 40701
Ironic Python Agent
Team and repository tags
Overview
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, features, and bugs are tracked on StoryBoard:
Developer documentation can be found here:
Release notes for the project are available at:
https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic-python-agent/
Source code repository for the project is located at:
- IRC channel:
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#openstack-ironic
To contribute, start here: Openstack: How to contribute.