kayobe/releasenotes/notes/bifrost-speedup-9902552b86150ad4.yaml
Pierre Riteau 3e03884c47 Speed up calls to Bifrost
For overcloud commands involving Bifrost (e.g. overcloud provision), we
use the Bifrost dynamic inventory. This runs bifrost_inventory.py which
gathers node and port information for all bare metal hosts. Because this
gets executed for each node in our inventory, it produces a large number
of API requests to Ironic, which grows as the number of hosts increases.

Halve the number of calls using the BIFROST_NODE_NAMES environment
variable, which restricts fetching port information to just the node
being queried. bifrost_inventory.py still performs one call for each
node, which must be fixed separately in Bifrost [1].

Time to query overcloud nodes' hardware introspection data for 44 hosts:

* before patch: 823 seconds
* after patch: 415 seconds

With the patch to Bifrost [1], this is further reduced to 46 seconds.

[1] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/bifrost/+/882950

Change-Id: I341075115442a38c327e3ade74b81b1b9e7e85c6
2023-08-29 16:53:49 +02:00

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Improves performance of Bifrost operations by preventing unnecessary
requests to the Ironic API.