.. _ironic-guide:
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Ironic - Bare Metal provisioning
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Overview
~~~~~~~~
Ironic is the OpenStack service for handling bare metal, i.e., the physical
machines. It can work standalone as well as with other OpenStack services
(notably, Neutron and Nova).
Pre-deployment Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Enable Ironic in ``/etc/kolla/globals.yml``:
.. code-block:: yaml
enable_ironic: "yes"
In the same file, define a network interface as the default NIC for dnsmasq and
define a network to be used for the Ironic cleaning network:
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_dnsmasq_interface: "eth1"
ironic_cleaning_network: "public1"
Finally, define at least one DHCP range for Ironic inspector:
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_dnsmasq_dhcp_ranges:
- range: "192.168.5.100,192.168.5.110"
Another example of a single range with a router (multiple routers
are possible by separating addresses with commas):
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_dnsmasq_dhcp_ranges:
- range: "192.168.5.100,192.168.5.110"
routers: "192.168.5.1"
To support DHCP relay, it is also possible to define a netmask in the range.
It is advisable to also provide a router to allow the traffic to reach the
Ironic server.
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_dnsmasq_dhcp_ranges:
- range: "192.168.5.100,192.168.5.110,255.255.255.0"
routers: "192.168.5.1"
Multiple ranges are possible, they can be either for directly-connected
interfaces or relays (if with netmask):
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_dnsmasq_dhcp_ranges:
- range: "192.168.5.100,192.168.5.110"
- range: "192.168.6.100,192.168.6.110,255.255.255.0"
routers: "192.168.6.1"
The default lease time for each range can be configured globally via
``ironic_dnsmasq_dhcp_default_lease_time`` variable or per range via
``lease_time`` parameter.
In the same file, specify the PXE bootloader file for Ironic Inspector. The
file is relative to the ``/var/lib/ironic/tftpboot`` directory. The default is
``pxelinux.0``, and should be correct for x86 systems. Other platforms may
require a differentvalue, for example aarch64 on Debian requires
``debian-installer/arm64/bootnetaa64.efi``.
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_dnsmasq_boot_file: pxelinux.0
Ironic inspector also requires a deploy kernel and ramdisk to be placed in
``/etc/kolla/config/ironic/``. The following example uses coreos which is
commonly used in Ironic deployments, though any compatible kernel/ramdisk may
be used:
.. code-block:: console
$ curl https://tarballs.opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent/dib/files/ipa-centos8-master.kernel \
-o /etc/kolla/config/ironic/ironic-agent.kernel
$ curl https://tarballs.opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent/dib/files/ipa-centos8-master.initramfs \
-o /etc/kolla/config/ironic/ironic-agent.initramfs
You may optionally pass extra kernel parameters to the inspection kernel using:
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_inspector_kernel_cmdline_extras: ['ipa-lldp-timeout=90.0', 'ipa-collect-lldp=1']
in ``/etc/kolla/globals.yml``.
Configure conductor's HTTP server port (optional)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The port used for conductor's HTTP server is controlled via
``ironic_http_port`` in ``/etc/kolla/globals.yml``:
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_http_port: "8089"
Revert to plain PXE (not recommended)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Starting with Yoga, Ironic has changed the default PXE from plain PXE to iPXE.
Kolla Ansible follows this upstream decision by choosing iPXE as the default
for Ironic Inspector but allows users to revert to the previous default of
plain PXE by setting the following in
``/etc/kolla/globals.yml``:
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_dnsmasq_serve_ipxe: "no"
To revert Ironic to previous default as well, set ``pxe`` as
``default_boot_interface`` in ``/etc/kolla/config/ironic.conf``:
.. code-block:: yaml
[DEFAULT]
default_boot_interface = pxe
Attach ironic to external keystone (optional)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In :kolla-ansible-doc:`multi-regional <user/multi-regions.html>` deployment
keystone could be installed in one region (let's say region 1) and ironic -
in another region (let's say region 2). In this case we don't install keystone
together with ironic in region 2, but have to configure ironic to connect to
existing keystone in region 1. To deploy ironic in this way we have to set
variable ``enable_keystone`` to ``"no"``.
.. code-block:: yaml
enable_keystone: "no"
It will prevent keystone from being installed in region 2.
To add keystone-related sections in ironic.conf, it is also needed to set
variable ``ironic_enable_keystone_integration`` to ``"yes"``
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_enable_keystone_integration: "yes"
Deployment
~~~~~~~~~~
Run the deploy as usual:
.. code-block:: console
$ kolla-ansible deploy
Post-deployment configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The :ironic-doc:`Ironic documentation <install/configure-glance-images>`
describes how to create the deploy kernel and ramdisk and register them with
Glance. In this example we're reusing the same images that were fetched for the
Inspector:
.. code-block:: console
openstack image create --disk-format aki --container-format aki --public \
--file /etc/kolla/config/ironic/ironic-agent.kernel deploy-vmlinuz
openstack image create --disk-format ari --container-format ari --public \
--file /etc/kolla/config/ironic/ironic-agent.initramfs deploy-initrd
The :ironic-doc:`Ironic documentation <install/configure-nova-flavors>`
describes how to create Nova flavors for bare metal. For example:
.. code-block:: console
openstack flavor create --ram 512 --disk 1 --vcpus 1 my-baremetal-flavor
openstack flavor set my-baremetal-flavor --property \
resources:CUSTOM_BAREMETAL_RESOURCE_CLASS=1 \
resources:resources:VCPU=0 \
resources:resources:MEMORY_MB=0 \
resources:resources:DISK_GB=0
The :ironic-doc:`Ironic documentation <install/enrollment>` describes how to
enroll baremetal nodes and ports. In the following example ensure to
substitute correct values for the kernel, ramdisk, and MAC address for your
baremetal node.
.. code-block:: console
openstack baremetal node create --driver ipmi --name baremetal-node \
--driver-info ipmi_port=6230 --driver-info ipmi_username=admin \
--driver-info ipmi_password=password \
--driver-info ipmi_address=192.168.5.1 \
--resource-class baremetal-resource-class --property cpus=1 \
--property memory_mb=512 --property local_gb=1 \
--property cpu_arch=x86_64 \
--driver-info deploy_kernel=15f3c95f-d778-43ad-8e3e-9357be09ca3d \
--driver-info deploy_ramdisk=9b1e1ced-d84d-440a-b681-39c216f24121
openstack baremetal port create 52:54:00:ff:15:55 \
--node 57aa574a-5fea-4468-afcf-e2551d464412 \
--physical-network physnet1
Make the baremetal node available to nova:
.. code-block:: console
openstack baremetal node manage 57aa574a-5fea-4468-afcf-e2551d464412
openstack baremetal node provide 57aa574a-5fea-4468-afcf-e2551d464412
It may take some time for the node to become available for scheduling in nova.
Use the following commands to wait for the resources to become available:
.. code-block:: console
openstack hypervisor stats show
openstack hypervisor show 57aa574a-5fea-4468-afcf-e2551d464412
Booting the baremetal
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Assuming you have followed the examples above and created the demo resources
as shown in the :doc:`../../user/quickstart`, you can now use the following
example command to boot the baremetal instance:
.. code-block:: console
openstack server create --image cirros --flavor my-baremetal-flavor \
--key-name mykey --network public1 demo1
In other cases you will need to adapt the command to match your environment.
Notes
~~~~~
Debugging DHCP
--------------
The following `tcpdump` command can be useful when debugging why dhcp
requests may not be hitting various pieces of the process:
.. code-block:: console
tcpdump -i <interface> port 67 or port 68 or port 69 -e -n
Configuring the Web Console
---------------------------
Configuration based off upstream :ironic-doc:`Node web console
<admin/console.html#node-web-console>`.
Serial speed must be the same as the serial configuration in the BIOS settings.
Default value: 115200bps, 8bit, non-parity.If you have different serial speed.
Set ironic_console_serial_speed in ``/etc/kolla/globals.yml``:
.. code-block:: yaml
ironic_console_serial_speed: 9600n8
Deploying using virtual baremetal (vbmc + libvirt)
--------------------------------------------------
See https://brk3.github.io/post/kolla-ironic-libvirt/