baremetal_temper

baremetal_temper

This is an ironic out of bound inspection using redfish, netbox and ironic-inspector.

what it does

It can automatically create ironic nodes based on the redfish data provided by the redfish api of a server.

To accomplish this, all it needs is the ip and name of the server, which should be onboarded in ironic. This data can be provided via a file or the netbox api.
The data structure looks as follows:

type NetboxDiscovery struct {
	Targets []string          `json:"targets"`
	Labels  map[string]string `json:"labels"`
}

The following list shows the steps executed for each new node:

• creates a dns record for the new node
• loads server information via the redfish api
• creates new node via the ironic inspector api
• applys rules which are defined by the user
• validates the new ironic node
• tries to power on the new node via the ironic api
• puts node in status available
• waits for nova propagation to be finished
• deploys a test instance on this new node via the compute api
• deletes new test instance
• prepares node for customer use (conductor group etc)
• sets node status to active

If any of the above steps fail, the node will be flagged as not ready in netbox and the node will be deleted in ironic.

extra feature

The user can provide a rules json template which should be applied for each new node, such as a specific node name, port infos etc.
Example:

{
  "properties": {
    "node": [
      {
        "op": "replace",
        "path": "/name",
        "value": "{{ .node.Name }}"
      },
      {
        "op": "add",
        "path": "/driver_info/deploy_kernel",
        "value": "{{ imageToID `some_image_name` }}"
      },
      {
        "op": "add",
        "path": "/driver_info/kernel_append_params",
        "value": "{{ getSwiftImageName `some_container` `some_prefix` }}"
      },
      {
        "op": "replace",
        "path": "/resource_class",
        "value": "{{ getMatchingFlavorFor .node }}"
      }
    ],
    "port": [
      {
        "op": "add",
        "path": "/local_link_connection/switch_id"
        "value": "aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff"
      }
    ]
  }
}