kayobe/doc/source/administration/bare-metal.rst
Will Szumski 5fa6bc4d36 Automatically enable serial consoles on post configure
This functionality is controlled by the flag ironic_serial_console_autoenable,
which, when enabled, will configure serial consoles for each of the ironic
nodes during the `overcloud post configure` step. This was added to reduce the
number of kayobe commands that are needed to be run for a given deployment.

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Baremetal Compute Node Management
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When enrolling new hardware or performing maintenance, it can be useful to be
able to manage many bare metal compute nodes simultaneously.
In all cases, commands are delegated to one of the controller hosts, and
executed concurrently. Note that ansible's ``forks`` configuration option,
which defaults to 5, may limit the number of nodes configured concurrently.
By default these commands wait for the state transition to complete for each
node. This behavior can be changed by overriding the variable
``baremetal_compute_wait`` via ``-e baremetal_compute_wait=False``
Manage
------
A node may need to be set to the ``manageable`` provision state in order to
perform certain management operations, or when an enrolled node is
transitioned into service. In order to manage a node, it must be in one of
these states: ``enroll``, ``available``, ``cleaning``, ``clean failed``,
``adopt failed`` or ``inspect failed``. To move the baremetal compute nodes
to the ``manageable`` provision state::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute manage
Provide
-------
In order for nodes to be scheduled by nova, they must be ``available``. To
move the baremetal compute nodes from the ``manageable`` state to the
``available`` provision state::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute provide
Inspect
-------
Nodes must be in one of the following states: ``manageable``, ``inspect
failed``, or ``available``. To trigger hardware inspection on the baremetal
compute nodes::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute inspect
Rename
------
Once nodes have been discovered, it is helpful to associate them with a name
to make them easier to work with. If you would like the nodes to be named
according to their inventory host names, you can run the following command::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute rename
This command will use the ``ipmi_address`` host variable from the inventory
to map the inventory host name to the correct node.
.. _update_deployment_image:
Update Deployment Image
-----------------------
When the overcloud deployment images have been rebuilt or there has been a change
to one of the following variables:
- ``ipa_kernel_upstream_url``
- ``ipa_ramdisk_upstream_url``
either by changing the url, or if the image to which they point
has been changed, you need to update the ``deploy_ramdisk``
and ``deploy_kernel`` properties on the Ironic nodes. To do
this you can run::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute update deployment image
You can optionally limit the nodes in which this affects by setting ``baremetal-compute-limit``::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute update deployment image --baremetal-compute-limit sand-6-1
which should take the form of an `ansible host pattern <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_patterns.html>`_.
This is matched against the Ironic node name.
Ironic Serial Console
---------------------
To access the baremetal nodes from within Horizon you need to enable the serial
console. For this to work the you must set
``kolla_enable_nova_serialconsole_proxy`` to ``true`` in
``etc/kayobe/kolla.yml``::
kolla_enable_nova_serialconsole_proxy: true
The console interface on the Ironic nodes is expected to be ``ipmitool-socat``,
you can check this with::
openstack baremetal node show <node_id> --fields console_interface
where <node_id> should be the UUID or name of the Ironic node you want to check.
If you have set ``kolla_ironic_enabled_console_interfaces`` in
``etc/kayobe/ironic.yml``, it should include ``ipmitool-socat`` in the list of
enabled interfaces.
The playbook to enable the serial console currently only works if the Ironic
node name matches the inventory hostname.
Once these requirements have been satisfied, you can run::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute serial console enable
This will reserve a TCP port for each node to use for the serial console
interface. The allocations are stored in
``${KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH}/console-allocation.yml``. The current implementation
uses a global pool, which is specified by
``ironic_serial_console_tcp_pool_start`` and
``ironic_serial_console_tcp_pool_end``; these variables can set in
``etc/kayobe/ironic.yml``.
To disable the serial console you can use::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute serial console disable
The port allocated for each node is retained and must be manually removed from
``${KAYOBE_CONFIG_PATH}/console-allocation.yml`` if you want it to be reused by
another Ironic node with a different name.
You can optionally limit the nodes targeted by setting
``baremetal-compute-limit``::
(kayobe) $ kayobe baremetal compute serial console enable --baremetal-compute-limit sand-6-1
which should take the form of an `ansible host pattern
<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_patterns.html>`_.
Serial console auto-enable
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To enable the serial consoles automatically on ``kayobe overcloud post configure``, you can set
``ironic_serial_console_autoenable`` in ``etc/kayobe/ironic.yml``::
ironic_serial_console_autoenable: true