Merge "Document that DHCP-less deploy does work with debian-minimal"
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Layer 3 or DHCP-less ramdisk booting
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.. warning::
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As of the Victoria release, the ramdisk side of this feature does **NOT**
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work out-of-box because of a conflict between NetworkManager and Glean_.
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To use it properly you need to manually create a ramdisk with Glean_ taking
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priority over any other network configuration.
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Booting nodes via PXE, while universally supported, suffers from one
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disadvantage: it requires a direct L2 connectivity between the node and the
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control plane for DHCP. Using virtual media it is possible to avoid not only
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@ -21,6 +15,16 @@ The Glean_ tool will look for a media labeled as ``config-2``. If found, the
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network information from it will be read, and the node's networking stack will
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be configured accordingly.
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.. code-block:: console
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ironic-python-agent-builder -o /output/ramdisk \
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debian-minimal -e simple-init
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.. warning::
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The simple-init_ element is found to conflict to NetworkManager, which makes
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this feature not operational with ramdisks based on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora.
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The ``debian-minimal`` element seems to work correctly.
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.. note::
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If desired, some interfaces can still be configured to use DHCP.
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issues:
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Building ramdisks for DHCP-less deploy using the ``simple-init`` element
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does not currently work. The team is looking into possible solutions.
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is known not to work for distributions using NetworkManager.
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The ``debian-minimal`` element seems to work.
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