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Partition images can sometimes contain a /boot folder structure event he assets for EFI booting on that filesystem. Which is a good thing. The conundrum is that Ironic does not handle this properly and potentially replaces the bootloader in this sequence such that grub2-install is used instead of signed bootloader assets. As such, we should be preserving the assets and using them from a partition image much like we do when we have a wholedisk image and can identify the assets. Now we will preserve the EFI boot assets, copy them to the new EFI boot partition, and call the EFI setup methods to manage the EFI nvram. Note, this change also splits the logic path out that performs the end call of the EFI boot manager into a reusable method but does not retool all of the testing as it is intertwined in the install_grub2 testing. Also adds some additional debug logging, as much of the bootloader installation code has multiple fallback/cleanup points which makes it difficult to debug from logs. Story: 2008070 Task: 40753 Change-Id: If17d4b4c06df5504987e61a1fde6662e9acd6989
Ironic Python Agent
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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.