puppet-ironic/releasenotes/notes/inspector_mitaka-5984d9af2ba56cb3.yaml
Emilien Macchi 04a484ac1a releasenotes: add notes for Mitaka cycle
Change-Id: I8b5f6979f692255921ffc26cd61d0d1f17b58eab
2016-03-17 13:51:04 -04:00

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features:
- Use dnsmasq dhcp-sequential-ip flag in dnsmasq.conf
Introspection naturally happens in large bulks, after which it's inactive.
Small pool for DHCP addresses means that we'll have conflicts due to how
dnsmasq distributes them by default - using hashing. This change tells dnsmasq
to allocate IP addresses sequentially instead to avoid these conflicts.
The drawback of this option is that long-running clients may switch IP
addresses if their lease expires. This is not a concern for short introspection
process.
- Allow sending random kernel arguments to the IPA.
IPA accepts plenty of kernel arguments, adding all them explicitly
may be not practical. New option ramdisk_kernel_args allows to set
a string to append to the kernel command line when booting IPA.
One of the use-cases is ipa-inspection-benchmarks option, enabling benchmarking
during inspection.
- Allow changing list of processing hooks.
Processing hooks are ironic-inspector plugins for the data processing
pipeline. This change enables appending new hooks to the default list.
- Specify SELinux type context for tftp dir.
We create a /tftpboot/ dir in the root directory without
specifying a SELinux type context, so it gets default_t. The
tftp process is not allowed read permission on default_t, and
as a result the ironic-inspector-dnsmasq service fails to start.
The fix is to specify a type context of tftpdir_t when
creating the /tftpboot/ directory.
This feature pulls the /tftpboot/ directory out of the if
block relating only to tftp configuration. The /tftpboot/
directory is also used by iPXE/http for the undionly.kpxe
chainloading image.
- Enable changing list of inspection collectors.
Inspection collectors are IPA plugins that collect additional information
for inspection. This feature allow changing their list, with default remaining
the same (for now).
- Allow to create Keystone resources to deploy Ironic Inspector, like service, endpoints, etc.
- Create a separate class for configuring logging.