Greetings everyone! We in Ironic land would like to go into the PTG with some additional thoughts, requirements, and ideas as it relates to distributed and geographically distributed deployments.
As you may or may not know, we did take a first step towards supporting some of the architectures needed with conductor_groups this past cycle, but we have two very distinct needs that have been expressed with-in the community. 1) Need to federate and share baremetal resources between ironic deployments. A specification[1] was proposed to try and begin to capture what this would look like ironic wise. At a high level, this would look like an ironic node that actually consumes and remotely manages a node via another ironic deployment. Largely this would be a stand-alone user/admin user deployment cases, where hardware inventory insight is needed. 2) Need to securely manage remote sites with different security postures, while not exposing control-plane components as an attack surface. Some early discussion into this would involve changing Conductor/IPA communication flow[2], or at least supporting a different model, and some sort of light weight intermediate middle-man service that helps facilitate the local site management. With that in mind, we would like to schedule a call for sometime next week where we can kind of talk through and discuss these thoughts and needs in real time in advance of the PTG so we can be even better prepared. We are attempting to identify a time with a doodle[3]. Please select a time and date, so we can schedule something for next week. Thanks, -Julia [1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/560152/ [2]: https://review.openstack.org/212206 [3]: https://doodle.com/poll/y355wt97heffvp3m __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
