ironic/releasenotes/notes/adds-ramdisk-deploy-interface-39fc61bc77b57beb.yaml
Julia Kreger 731af40129 Adds ramdisk deploy driver
Adds a pxe deploy driver to support the concept
of a deployment just consisting of a ramdisk.

Ideally, as long as a kernel and ramdisk are
defined, either by the operator or via a glance
image, the PXE/iPXE template should point the
booted kernel to using ramdisk as the root.

In theory, this would allow deployment via
nova, or directly using the parameters posted
to the node's instance_info.

There may be additional features realistically
needed for this to be beyond minimally useful,
but that would also depend on the contents of
the ramdisk that is deployed by an API user.

Change-Id: Id7067527cba27ed49753736f33ccb35e9b35bcba
Story: 1753842
Task: 10666
2018-07-26 17:22:47 +00:00

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features:
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Adds a ``ramdisk`` deploy interface for deployments that wish to network
boot to a ramdisk, as opposed to perform a complete
traditional deployment to a physical media. This may be useful in
scientific use cases or where ephemeral baremetal machines are desired.
The ``ramdisk`` deploy interface is intended for advanced users and has
some particular operational caveats that the users should be aware of
prior to use, such as network access list requirements and configuration
drive architectural restrictions and the inability to leverage
configuration drives.