Openstack Valence Project

Valence is a service for lifecycle management of pooled bare-metal hardware infrastructure such as Intel(R) Rack Scale architecture which uses Redfish(TM) as one of the management protocols.

Free software

Apache license

Wiki

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Valence

Source

http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/rsc

Bugs

http://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-valence

Download and Installation

The following steps capture how to install valence. All installation steps require super user permissions.

Valence installation

1. Install software dependencies

   $ sudo apt-get install git python-pip

2. Clone the Valence code from git repo.

   $ git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/rsc

3. Execute the 'install_valence.sh' file present in the Valence root directory. The install script will automatically install the dependencies listed in the requirements.txt file.

$ sudo bash install_valence.sh

4. Check the values in valence.conf located at /etc/valence/valence.conf

   set the ip/credentials of podm for which this Valence will interact

5. Check the PYTHON_HOME and other variables in /etc/init/valence.conf

6. Start valence service

   $ sudo service valence start

7. Logs are located at /var/logs/valence/

GUI installation

Please refer to the installation steps in the ui/README file.

Components

Valence follows the typical OpenStack project setup. The components are listed below:

valence-api

A pecan based daemon to expose Valence REST APIs. The api service communicates to the controller through AMQP.

valence-controller --------------The controller implements all the handlers for Plasma-api. It reads requests from the AMQP queue, process it and send the reponse back to the caller.

valence-ui --------valence-ui provides a GUI interface to invoke Valence APIs.

Features

Please refer the Valence blueprints for supported and in-the-pipeline features. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-valence