kayobe/ansible/roles/dell-switch-bmp/README.md

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Dell Switch BMP

This role configures a network boot environment for Dell switches with Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) functionality.

Requirements

The use of an OpenStack Bifrost container deployed using OpenStack Kolla-ansible is assumed, with the dnsmasq service providing DHCP and nginx serving the switch OS images.

Role Variables

dell_switch_bmp_images is a list of images to provide a BMP configuration for, and defaults to an empty list. Each item should be a dict with the following keys: url URL of the image to download. dest Name of the file to download the image to. match dnsmasq match rule to match hosts against. tag dnsmasq tag to apply to matching hosts. checksum optional checksum of image, in format required for Ansible's get_url module.

dell_switch_bmp_http_base_url is the base URL of HTTP server.

dell_switch_bmp_httpboot_path is the path to the HTTP server base directory, and defaults to /httpboot.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

The following playbook configures a network boot environment in the Bifrost container for s6010-ON switches with the ONIE-FTOS-9.10.0.1P25.bin image.

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# This playbook will configure a Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) environment for
# Dell switches on the Bifrost node so that they can be network booted.

- name: Ensure that a Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) environment is configured for Dell switches
  hosts: bifrost
  roles:
    - role: dell-switch-bmp
      dell_switch_bmp_images:
        # ONIE installer image for S6010-ON.
        - url: "ftp://ftp.force10networks.com/releases/FTOS_Release/E9.10.0.1P25/S6010/ONIE-FTOS-S6010-9.10.0.1P25.bin"
          checksum: "md5:f94fdfa50dc23f87bf2871ae96b6cff3"
          dest: "onie-installer-x86_64-dell_s6010_c2538-r0"
          match: "option:vendor-class,onie_vendor:x86_64-dell_s6010_c2538-r0"
          tag: "onie"
      # This is the base URL of the Nginx web server on the Bifrost node.
      dell_switch_bmp_http_base_url: "http://10.0.0.1:8080"

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