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 items:

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)

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