Enrollment

Preparing images

If you don’t use Image service, it’s possible to provide images to Bare Metal service via a URL.

At the moment, only two types of URLs are acceptable instead of Image service UUIDs: HTTP(S) URLs (for example, “http://my.server.net/images/img”) and file URLs (file:///images/img).

There are however some limitations for different hardware interfaces:

  • If you’re using Direct deploy with HTTP(s) URLs, you have to provide the Bare Metal service with the a checksum of your instance image.

    MD5 is used by default for backward compatibility reasons. To compute an MD5 checksum, you can use the following command:

    $ md5sum image.qcow2
ed82def8730f394fb85aef8a208635f6  image.qcow2

    Alternatively, use a SHA256 checksum or any other algorithm supported by the Python’s hashlib, e.g.:

    $ sha256sum image.qcow2
9f6c942ad81690a9926ff530629fb69a82db8b8ab267e2cbd59df417c1a28060  image.qcow2

  • Direct deploy started supporting file:// images in the Victoria release cycle, before that only HTTP(s) had been supported.

    Warning

    File images must be accessible to every conductor! Use a shared file system if you have more than one conductor. The ironic CLI tool will not transfer the file from a local machine to the conductor(s).

Note

The Bare Metal service tracks content changes for non-Glance images by checking their modification date and time. For example, for HTTP image, if ‘Last-Modified’ header value from response to a HEAD request to “http://my.server.net/images/deploy.ramdisk” is greater than cached image modification time, Ironic will re-download the content. For “file://” images, the file system modification time is used.

If the HTTP server does not provide the last modification date and time, the image will be redownloaded every time it is used.

Enrolling nodes

  1. Create a node in Bare Metal service. At minimum, you must specify the driver name (for example, ipmi). You can also specify all the required driver parameters in one command. This will return the node UUID:

    $ baremetal node create --driver ipmi \
    --driver-info ipmi_address=ipmi.server.net \
    --driver-info ipmi_username=user \
    --driver-info ipmi_password=pass \
    --driver-info deploy_kernel=file:///images/deploy.vmlinuz \
    --driver-info deploy_ramdisk=http://my.server.net/images/deploy.ramdisk
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property     | Value                                                                    |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| uuid         | be94df40-b80a-4f63-b92b-e9368ee8d14c                                     |
| driver_info  | {u'deploy_ramdisk': u'http://my.server.net/images/deploy.ramdisk',       |
|              | u'deploy_kernel': u'file:///images/deploy.vmlinuz', u'ipmi_address':     |
|              | u'ipmi.server.net', u'ipmi_username': u'user', u'ipmi_password':         |
|              | u'******'}                                                               |
| extra        | {}                                                                       |
| driver       | ipmi                                                                     |
| chassis_uuid |                                                                          |
| properties   | {}                                                                       |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Note that here deploy_kernel and deploy_ramdisk contain links to images instead of Image service UUIDs.

  2. As in case of Compute service, you can also provide capabilities to node properties, but they will be used only by Bare Metal service (for example, boot mode).

  3. Then create a port to inform Bare Metal service of the network interface cards which are part of the node by creating a port with each NIC’s MAC address. In this case, they’re used for naming of PXE configs for a node:

    baremetal port create $MAC_ADDRESS --node $NODE_UUID