metal-core

metal-core

metal-core dynamically reconfigures switches based on the state held in the metal-api. Therefore, it must run on every leaf switch and have control over the configuration files for network interfaces and the routing suite (/etc/frr/frr.config) of the switches.

In the PXE-boot process of machines metal-core will act as a proxy between API-requests issued by pixiecore and the metal-api. The metal-api will answer with a mini OS (see metal-hammer and kernel).

Besides that, it ensures the proper boot order (IPMI) and monitors their liveliness with LLDP).

Building

Install mage

https://magefile.org/

Set GOPATH to a writeable directory of your choice.

go get -u -d github.com/magefile/mage
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/magefile/mage
go run bootstrap.go

The "mage" binary will be placed in $GOPATH/bin, add this to your PATH.

Run mage

mage build

This triggers

• the installation of build dependencies like swagger
• the generation of the client code for spec/metal-core.json and domain/metal-api.json
• after that, bin/metal-core is built