Introduction to Ironic, OpenStack Bare Metal and a highlight of features such as multi-tenancy, auto-discovery, Redfish and network information extraction with LLDP

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5. Create
Networks
Upload
Images
Group
“Compute”
Nodes
(VMs vs BMs)
Create
Flavors
Register
Bare
Metal
Nodes

6. Select
Network
Start VM
Instances
Start BM
Instances
Select
OS and
Flavor
Enjoy!

7. OpenStack
User
APIs Nova
KVM
Ironic
VM
VM
VM
BM
BM
BM
Create
networks Create 100
virtual instances
Create 4
physical
instances
Build a big data
cluster with physical
and virtual instances

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10. L2 Switch
BM
NIC NIC
LAG
bond
Configured by
ML2 plug-in
Configured by
cloud-init using
metadata
L2 Switch
BM
NIC
VLANs set by
by ML2 plug-in
BM
NIC
L2 Switch

12. Create Tenant Networks
Register BM in
Ironic
Create Port for BM
Specify
Tenant VLANs
Specify Physical
Switch Port Details

13. Provisioning Network is
configured in the switch
Boot BM on
Tenant
Network
ML2 Plug-in
Configures
Switch
BM is
Provisioned
ML2 Plug-in
Configures
Switch
Tenant Network is
configured in the switch
BM is ready

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18. [stack@undercloud ~]$ openstack baremetal introspection rule list
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
| UUID | Description |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
| 823ac164-05af-4289-99ae-461dde2d7029 | Set default IPMI credentials |
| 271f93d7-0ac5-4dfa-94c2-e474f61171e8 | Set the vendor driver for Dell hardware |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+

19. $ cat > rule1.json << EOF
[
{
"description": "Set default IPMI credentials",
"conditions": [
{"op": "eq", "field": "data://auto_discovered", "value": true}
],
"actions": [
{"action": "set-attribute", "path": " driver_info/ipmi_username",
"value": " root"},
{"action": "set-attribute", "path": "driver_info/ipmi_password",
"value": " calvin"}
]
}
]
EOF
$ openstack baremetal introspection rule import rule1.json

20. cat > rule2.json << EOF
[
{
"description": "Set the vendor driver for Dell hardware",
"conditions": [
{"op": "eq", "field": "data://auto_discovered", "value": true},
{"op": "eq", "field": "data://inventory.system_vendor.manufacturer",
"value": "Dell Inc."}
],
"actions": [
{"action": "set-attribute", "path": "driver", "value": "pxe_drac"},
{"action": "set-attribute", "path": "driver_info/drac_username",
"value": "root"},
{"action": "set-attribute", "path": "driver_info/drac_password",
"value": "calvin"},
{"action": "set-attribute", "path": "driver_info/drac_address",
"value": "{data[inventory][bmc_address]}"}
]
}
]
EOF
$ openstack baremetal introspection rule import rule2.json
Data collected during
inspection

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24. openstack baremetal node create
--driver redfish
--driver-info redfish_address=https://example.com
--driver-info redfish_system_id=/redfish/v1/Systems/CX34R87
--driver-info redfish_username=admin
--driver-info redfish_password=password

25. {
"nodes": [
{
"pm_type":"ipmi",
"mac":[
"fa:16:3e:2a:0e:36"
],
"cpu":"2",
"memory":"4096",
"disk":"40",
"arch":"x86_64",
"pm_user":"admin",
"pm_password":"password",
"pm_addr":"https://example.com"
"pm_system_id":"/redfish/v1/Systems/CX34R87"
}
]
}

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27. $ openstack baremetal introspection data save $NODE_ID | jq .all_interfaces.em1.lldp_processed``
$ openstack baremetal introspection interface list $NODE_ID
+-----------+-------------------+------------------------+-------------------+----------------+
| Interface | MAC Address | Switch Port VLAN IDs | Switch Chassis ID | Switch Port ID |
+-----------+-------------------+------------------------+-------------------+----------------+
| p2p2 | 00:0a:f7:79:93:19 | [103, 102, 18, 20, 42] | 64:64:9b:31:12:00 | 510 |
| p2p1 | 00:0a:f7:79:93:18 | [101] | 64:64:9b:31:12:00 | 507 |
| em1 | c8:1f:66:c7:e8:2f | [162] | 08:81:f4:a6:b3:80 | 515 |
| em2 | c8:1f:66:c7:e8:30 | [182, 183] | 08:81:f4:a6:b3:80 | 559 |
+-----------+-------------------+------------------------+-------------------+----------------+