2.2 KiB
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.
---
# 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"
Author Information
- Mark Goddard (mark@stackhpc.com)